Spotify Safe Play#

Use this skill when the user wants to play Spotify tracks, albums, or playlists and the machine is known to have unreliable direct spogo play behavior.

Files included with this skill

• Wrapper script: ./bin/spotify-safe-play

Preferred commands

• Search track: spogo search track "query"
• Search album: spogo search album "query"
• Search playlist: spogo search playlist "query"
• Safe playback: ./skills/spotify-safe-play/bin/spotify-safe-play <spotify-uri-or-url-or-id> [--device "..."]
• Pause / resume / next / previous: spogo pause, spogo play, spogo next, spogo prev
• Devices: spogo device list, spogo device set "<name|id>"
• Status: spogo status

Playback rules

• For tracks, the wrapper safely queues the requested track and skips to it.
• For albums and playlists, the wrapper expands the public Spotify page into track URIs, queues them in normal order, skips once into the first track, then exits immediately.
• After the first target track starts, do not send extra next, play, or verification loops.
• Avoid direct spogo play <track> on affected machines because it may resume the current context instead of switching to the requested content.
• If the user has separately installed spotify-safe-play into PATH, spotify-safe-play <item> ... is also acceptable.

Requirements

• Spotify Premium
• spogo installed and authenticated
• Bash, curl, grep, and awk
• An active Spotify Connect target such as Spotify Web Player or the desktop app