Suggestion for running spotify

[chipschap]

This is just something I do on my own for my Linux system. Since Spotify has to already be running to play a track, I add this code to my startup (after helm-spotify-plus is loaded). This could probably be done more nicely, and is only for Linux, but it does what I need, namely, be sure Spotify is running before trying to play something.

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(defun spotify-check (&rest args)
(interactive)
"See if spotify is running and if not, run it"
(if (not (string= (shell-command-to-string "pgrep -x "spotify"") ""))
(message "Spotify running")
(progn
(message "Starting Spotify")
(start-process "spotify" nil "spotify")
(sleep-for 3))
)
)

;;; To ensure spotify is running before trying to play stuff.
(advice-add 'helm-spotify-plus-play-href :before #'spotify-check)
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[wandersoncferreira]

Sorry for the long time to comment your suggestion. It has been a very busy weather right here. I think we can split this addition into some steps: i) option to opt-in the functionality of starting a spotify client if none is present ii) default to only warn the user through a minibuffer message iii) if opt-in, try open the client, inform message if not succeded.

What you think about this? Can you submit a PR to accomplish those behaviors?

thanks

[chipschap]

What you think about this? Can you submit a PR to accomplish those behaviors?

Let me see what I can come up with, once I find out what a PR is :)

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[wandersoncferreira]

PR = Pull Request hehehe. It's the process of submitting code to contribute with a repository in github.

If you need guidance, don't wait to ask. I hope to be able to help.