Skip Spotify Ads on Linux

spotifycli.sh

# Function to "skip" Spotify Ads by reloading the client
# whenever ad is detected

# Have https://pypi.org/project/spotify-cli-linux/ installed

reload_spotify() {
    # Determine what's playing
    spotifycli --status | grep -qi 'advertisement\| - Spotify\|^ - '

    # If the return matches ads string
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        # Kill all instances of Spotify
        killall spotify
        # Give a little sleep
        sleep 0.5
        # Start Spotify in background
        nohup spotify > /dev/null 2>&1 &
        # Play where we left, might be previous song depending
        # on at which point Spotify saved its state
        spotifycli --play
    fi
}