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Finally iOS 12 is here. Apple has promised to give us better Siri integration by allowing third party developer to use Siri Shortcuts. For you who just updated and want to have this, you have to search for “Shortcuts”, make sure that the developer is Apple and install manually on App Store. Unfortunately, Spotify has not updated to support Siri Shortcuts for now but I will share a workaround to use this. Siri Shortcuts is very powerful, you can customize any command you want (if the third-party apps support it), such as Google Maps, GIPHY, etc. For those coming from Android, it is very similar to IFTTT. However, for Apple users, this app may be confusing to use. I will do some introduction on how to use Siri Shortcuts in general.
How to use Siri Shortcuts : the Beginner Guide
Hey there, I am looking for help in automationand shortcuts. Situation: I have bluetooth device in my car (car is too old to have a carplay) which transmits audio and music from phone to car radio. It was always annoying me that I had to open spotify every time and click play. So I started to seek for automation and shortcuts.
- Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Spotify is all the music you’ll ever need. Skip to content. Spotify Click the install file to finish up. If your download didn't start, try again. Bring your music to mobile and tablet, too.
- You can control Spotify almost entirely using keyboard shortcuts. Spotify web has a dedicated page with a full list of shortcuts to every function of the app (for both Windows and Mac). You can learn shortcuts for the obvious things like playing next or previous track, as well as more advanced actions like switching to shuffle mode or logging.
- 28 time-saving Hotkeys for Spotify. Extensive, exportable, wiki-style reference lists for Keyboard Shortcuts/Hotkeys.
For every command that you use, you have to see first by pressing the info button “( i )” and check the input and results. The input command need to be placed above this command. You can search for it also. If the input needed for that command is a text, you search for “text” and type inside it. If it is URL, you can search for “URLs” and type the URL. You might need to do trial and error to get into this. If you are lazy to do this, you can check on the “Gallery” button on bottom right screen and choose the preset that is available.
How to use Siri Shortcuts to play music with Spotify
To use this, you need to prepare some Spotify URL link of the playlist that you want to use for.
- Go to Spotify Apps
- Press the “Three-dots” button on top-right corner
- Choose “Share”
- Choose “Copy link”
I suggest you choose link of an album or playlist for this instead of individual song. After this go back to your Shortcuts apps and click on “Create Shortcut”
- Search for “Create from Menu” command
- Fill in the Prompt with any text that you like, and fill in the option that you have
- Search for “URL” command and paste the Playlist/Album link from Spotify (to move the order of the command, you can tap and hold and rearrange)
- Search for “Open URLs command” and put it below the “URL” command
- Try to click the “Play” button above and check if it is working correctly
Just a note, you have to arrange this sequentially. As shown in the picture, below the “Eminem” is the Spotify album link then open URL. You can continue adding this first. However, Apple limit that Shortcuts can only have “Play music” command from Apple Music apps only. So you still need to have 1 more click on “Shuffle Play” after you got into the Spotify apps.
Update #1 : You can make the “URL” and “Open URLs” command only, just to launch the album that you want. This way you only need to click the Play button on Spotify
Update #2 : I found a way to search & play music, here’s the Siri Shortcut for Spotify link
Republished from February 11, 2015 @ 1:54pm
I’m using a Microsoft 4000 Keyboard on a Mac and I use Spotify to play music more than I use iTunes. By default the Play/Pause button on the Microsoft 4000 keyboard will only tell iTunes to Play/Pause. The Microsoft system preferences app does not allow me to send a key stroke to a specific app, nor does Spotify specify a key stroke for Play/Pause. This solution would probably be super hacky for anyone else, but I’m already using something called BetterTouchTool that allows me to control mouse buttons (non-Apple mouse in my case) and keystrokes globally as well as within specific applications.
Spotify Shortcut Keys
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The first step is to create an Applescript to tell the desired application to play/pause. Below is an Applescript that tells the running application (Spotify first, then looks for iTunes) to play/pause. If neither Spotify nor iTunes are running, then launch Spotify and tell it to play. Note that Spotify will only play upon launch if it was playing when it stopped, so the play may not actually happen when it is launched.
View the code on Gist.
You can also use the single statement below to affect only Spotify:
View the code on Gist.
Now set the keyboard to issue some unused keystroke when the play/pause button is pressed. Open System Preferences -> Microsoft Keyboard
Select the “Key Settings” tab and highlight “Play/Pause”, then click the “Reassign” Button.
Under “Select a command:” choose “Keystroke”. Click in the “Press a key” text box and press some unused key combination. I chose Control-Command-Shift-k. While that may be used for something, I will never press that key combo.
Now, press the “OK” button and close the System Preferences.
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Better spotify app roku. The last step is configure BetterTouchTool. Open BTT preferences.
- For “Application” select “Global”
- On the bottom right chose “+ Add New Shortcut”.
- Click in “Keyboard Shortcut” and push the Play/Pause button on the keyboard which should enter the assigned key combination chosen in the keyboard preferences.
Spotify Keyboard Shortcuts Mac Screenshot
- The dropdown under “Trigger Predefined Action:”
- Select the “Controlling Other Applications” section
- Chose “Open Application / File / Applescript…” and browse to your saved Applescript.
Close BetterTouchTool and test your Play/Pause button.
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Spotify download songs to pc. If you did not have BTT set up before starting, you may need to set it to launch automatically as well as other preferences. Check those to ensure it will continue to work the way you want.