About

vimify is a plugin for Vim origionally inspired by MuAnsari96. It provides a simple Spotify integration within Vim to search and play music on OSX and Linux. This version of vimify uses AppleScript to talk with spotify on Mac and Dbus on linux. If you managed to open vim and load this plugin, your system will have the right one installed.

Just make sure you have Spotify installed somewhere and the plugin should work. You will need to have built vim with Python3 support or load python3 in neovim for this plugin to work.

Big thanks to Mattpenney89 for writing the linux bits and updating the scripts to python 3

For the search functions you will need to follow the new instructions in the setup part of this readme. Linux support trough Dbus / some code cleaning is underway, as well as looking for albums and artist.

Features and Usage

vimify is designed to interface with a running desktop instance of Spotify. Currently, the following features are supported:

• :SpPlay will play the current track
• :SpPause will pause the current track
• :SpPrevious will move to the previous track
• :SpNext will move to the next track
• :Spotify or :SpToggle will toggle play/pause
• :SpSearch <query> will search spotify for 'query' and return the results in a new buffer. While working in the Vimify buffer, the name, artist and album of all pertinent tracks will be displayed. Vimify's behavior in this buffer is described as follows::
  • <Enter>: If the cursor is over the name of the track, Spotify will begin playback of that track
  • <Enter>: If the cursor is over the name of the artist, Spotify will begin playback of all songs by artist, starting with popular
  • <Enter>: If the cursor is over the name of the album, Spotify will begin playback of the entire album
  • <Space>: Is bound to :SpToggle when working in the Vimify buffer

Installation

The preferred way to install vimify is to use pathogen. With pathogen installed, simply run

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/HendrikPetertje/vimify

update March 2018: Vimify now requires authentication.

1. Create a new spotify application at https://beta.developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications
2. Grab the Client Id and Client secret of your brand new spotify developer application
3. Go to https://www.base64encode.org/ and paste your client id and secret like client:secret (don't forget the colon). Example:

afff3bbbdffff7ebclientID452855f9:afff3bbbdffff7secretfdfd452855f9

4. Grab the encoded result to your clipboard and paste it in your vimrc like:

let g:spotify_token='YOURENCODEDRESULTHERE'

• It's bit of an extra step to encode it, but safes code in the plugin, plus you won't be putting a hard-coded password in your env files (though a bas64 string is easy to spot and more than easy to reverse!!!!).

And you'll be good to go! Once help tags are generated, you can just run :help vimify in vim to see the manual.

Roadmap

• Clean up the code and break things apart to their own sections / files
• Instead of making a file that opens as an interface, push the whole thing to :copen (need to dig in some literature for that).
• Make a setup interface that helps new users create a Authorisation: Basic token without having to read this readme or visiting shady encoding sites.
• Your ideas and wishes.