# Spotify

> Control Spotify playback from the terminal with the community-built shpotify CLI.
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Shpotify is a community-maintained shell script that controls the Spotify desktop app on macOS via AppleScript. It supports play, pause, skip, search, and volume control without leaving the terminal. Since it is not an official Spotify tool, it depends on the Spotify desktop app being installed and running.


- Homepage: https://www.spotify.com/
- Categories: `media`
- CLI type: `standalone`
- Open source: true
- Status: `active`
- Tags: `music`, `media-player`, `audio`, `entertainment`
- Source: https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify
- Canonical: /spotify

## When to suggest this

- play, pause, and skip tracks without switching to the Spotify window
- search for and queue songs or albums directly from the terminal
- control playback volume and toggle shuffle or repeat modes via shell commands

## Install the CLI

```sh
brew install shpotify
```
> Community-maintained.

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