Re:Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing mu...
by tsukikage on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:53AM
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To be fair, Spotify do in fact give you the hooks: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/
You can have a script sitting on your machine remotely controlling an internet connected player somewhere else.
e.g. here's one I wrote that makes Spotify not play the same track too often: https://github.com/sl236/spotify-deduplicator
I hate the trend from product managers of responding to "wow there's a lot of things people might be intending here" with "let's just pick one in the name of simplicity." Give me the hooks to let me make my own solutions for the other possibilities!