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aleab
Add hotkeys for add/remove from library for radio use?
If you are talking about the Thumbs Up/Down feature, that's not possible in any painless way. See issue #7 for details. If you are just talking about saving a song to the library, which you would normally do by pushing the plus symbol for example, that's another thing that could be done in a less painfull way. However, that would require users' authorization to access their account through the Spotify's public APIs, and I don't really want to do so just for one feature.
It's largely the second I was after, but if it's painful I understand why it wasn't done already, I can live without it.
As I said, if it's the second one, it's not painful at all; I just don't want to make the users authenticate and waste time just for one feature. I'll keep this in mind, but I won't probably implement it anytime soon.
Me, just thinking out loud: A proper Web-API authentication might be something worthwhile in the long run, though. That means, if some interesting use cases come up. If I remember correctly, the user experience should be quite straight forward as well. I tried it once with a Sonos setup connecting to Spotify. Was not much needed beside a login at spotify and a provided code for authentication. IFTTT setup also was quite easy. However, I've never tried to code it myself.
This could even allow expansion of the toast for the web interface as well. But this is far fetched for now and also not really a proper use case if I think about it. Browser extensions are better suited for this.
See, my usage of Spotify is like this: If I like a song, I want it in my library as well as in a "favourites" playlist, because Spotify has some usability issues with the library. A playlist is easier to consume. So, instead of hitting +, I add it to my "favourites" playlist. Then a IFTTT recipe kicks in and adds the song to my library as well. (btw: The other way around [first + and then letting it add to playlist] is a bit cumbersome, because IFTTT is not fully reliable and manually syncing is tedious this way. Hitting a missing + in the playlist is much easier, though.)
Meaning: I'd love to automate this with a hotkey that adds the current song to a predefined playlist. (checking also for duplicates) ^^
A proper Web-API authentication might be something worthwhile in the long run, though. That means, if some interesting use cases come up.
That was exactly what I meant. 😄
This could even allow expansion of the toast for the web interface as well.
I considered it some time ago; I don't really remember why I discarded the idea though. I guess a browser extension is definitely needed to make it work.
If I like a song, I want it in my library as well as in a "favourites" playlist, because Spotify has some usability issues with the library. A playlist is easier to consume. So, instead of hitting +, I add it to my "favourites" playlist. Then a IFTTT recipe kicks in and adds the song to my library as well. (btw: The other way around [first + and then letting it add to playlist] is a bit cumbersome, because IFTTT is not fully reliable and manually syncing is tedious this way. Hitting a missing + in the playlist is much easier, though.)
Some kind of interaction with playlists (other than just the library) might be a use case worth the trouble of using the web APIs.
@aleab Since you have the authentication now, could this feature be added ?
It would be great to be able to "Save to favourite song" directly from a shortcut :)
