[Desktop] Global HotKeys for Pause/Play, Skip, etc.

[Wurdo]

It would be nice to have an Global Hotkey so you can pause/play your music while browsing and not switching between screens. Or when you are gaming and you want another song but you don't want to alt tab and stay idle, a (customizable?)  Global Hotkey(i.g. ctrl+shift+right) would be such an great improvement in the usefulness of Spotify.

[skipgamer]

by lucferron
There is a plugin at the moment that can help you with this. I just tried it and it solves my problem... It would be better if it would be built in spotify but this is better than nothing. It is called Toastify.

http://toastify.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/79962

Thanks for the toastify link, works like a charm, for those wanting media keyboard support (the play/pause, back, forward, stop buttons on almost every keyboard nowadays), add the following the toastify.xml file located in the toastify folder.

<Hotkey>
      <Ctrl>false</Ctrl>
      <Alt>false</Alt>
      <Shift>false</Shift>
      <Key>MediaPlayPause</Key>
      <Action>PlayPause</Action>
    </Hotkey>
    <Hotkey>
      <Ctrl>false</Ctrl>
      <Alt>false</Alt>
      <Shift>false</Shift>
      <Key>MediaStop</Key>
      <Action>Stop</Action>
    </Hotkey>
    <Hotkey>
      <Ctrl>false</Ctrl>
      <Alt>false</Alt>
      <Shift>false</Shift>
      <Key>MediaPreviousTrack</Key>
      <Action>PreviousTrack</Action>
    </Hotkey>
    <Hotkey>
      <Ctrl>false</Ctrl>
      <Alt>false</Alt>
      <Shift>false</Shift>
      <Key>MediaNextTrack</Key>
      <Action>NextTrack</Action>
    </Hotkey>

This really should be default functionality though.

[user-removed]

toastify works great... just needed one more functionality to star a song

[rouge568]

Commenting to show my support for this! Using Windows 7 and there's not really a workaround.

[psjeong]

AutoHotkeys works for me. I'm on Windows 7.

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/36239-spotify-global-hotkeys/

[robbyus1111]

Hi,

It would be cool if the spotify shortcut were working even if not on the spotify window...  As simple as this...

Thanks!

[robbyus1111]

Come on!

This request is not that difficult to be implemented into Spotify !

This idea was posted 1 year ago and still not done! Toastify can do it, but YOU can't ??

All the Mediaplayers got this feature !

Thanks for reading

[Marco]

Added "etc." in the title to include also functions that most of you request in the comments, like star a track, add to playlist, and so on. 😉

[jay4hk]

Try downloading Flutter - lets you pause/play, hit next track and previous track using hand gestures (through your webcam)

[lucferron]

Come on guys... Developing that feature is a 1 day job for any developer. Would be awesome to have it... Not like you need rocket science to get it done either.

[roberskine]

Well @lucferron, I don't know if it's a 1 day job. It's not in their API, else I'd totally spend a whole day building it since it doesn't even require a rocket science degree.

image data n : Image data in TIFF format.

application n [see also Standard Suite] : The Spotify application.

properties

current track (track, r/o) : The current playing track.

sound volume (integer) : The sound output volume (0 = minimum, 100 = maximum)

player state (stopped/‌playing/‌paused, r/o) : Is Spotify stopped, paused, or playing?

player position (real) : The player’s position within the currently playing track in seconds.

repeating enabled (boolean, r/o) : Is repeating enabled in the current playback context?

repeating (boolean) : Is repeating on or off?

shuffling enabled (boolean, r/o) : Is shuffling enabled in the current playback context?

shuffling (boolean) : Is shuffling on or off?

track n : A Spotify track.

properties

artist (text, r/o) : The artist of the track.

album (text, r/o) : The album of the track.

disc number (integer, r/o) : The disc number of the track.

duration (integer, r/o) : The length of the track in seconds.

played count (integer, r/o) : The number of times this track has been played.

track number (integer, r/o) : The index of the track in its album.

starred (boolean, r/o) : Is the track starred?

popularity (integer, r/o) : How popular is this track? 0-100

id (text, r/o) : The ID of the item.

name (text, r/o) : The name of the track.

artwork (image data, r/o) : The track's album cover.

album artist (text, r/o) : That album artist of the track.

spotify url (text) : The URL of the track.

next track v : Skip to the next track.

next track

previous track v : Skip to the previous track.

previous track

playpause v : Toggle play/pause.

playpause

pause v : Pause playback.

pause

play v : Resume playback.

play

play track v : Start playback of a track in the given context.

play track text : the URI of the track to play

[in context text] : the URI of the context to play in