Introduction

spotify_cmd is a tool to control a running instance of Spotify under wine, it should work on Windows as well but have not been tested.

Compile

wineg++ spotify_cmd.cpp -o spotify_cmd.exe

You should now have a Linux executable file named spotify_cmd.exe

Usage

Play/pause playback ./spotify_cmd.exe playpause

Stop playback ./spotify_cmd.exe stop

Next track ./spotify_cmd.exe next

Previous track ./spotify_cmd.exe prev

Mute ./spotify_cmd.exe mute

Volume down ./spotify_cmd.exe voldown

Volume up ./spotify_cmd.exe volup

Artist and track information ./spotify_cmd.exe status

Do NOT run as "wine spotify_cmd.exe" it will not work, spotify_cmd.exe is a Linux binary.