Simple script and cron job for ad skips on spotify

check_if_spotify_is_running

# make sure that it's executable by chmod +x check_if_spotify_is_running
if pgrep Spotify; then 
    osascript -e 'quit application "spotify"'
	echo 'Restarting'
	sleep 2s
    osascript -e 'tell application "spotify" to play'
else
    echo 'All good';
fi

cron job

This runs the check_if_spotify_is_running script every 15 minutes, which checks if spotify is running or not and restarts it if it is (restarting makes the ads go away 🤭)


*/15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/check_if_spotify_is_running