Control Spotify using AppleScript

1-README.md

These are scripts that I am using through Alfred and have been for years. A ready-made workflow can be downloaded here: https://cell.sanitarium.se/~ba/spotify-keyboard-shortcuts.alfredworkflow

next.applescript

on alfred_script(q)
	tell application "Spotify"
		next track
	end tell
end alfred_script

open-playing-song-on-genius-com.applescript

on alfred_script(q)

set newline to "
	"

tell application "System Events"
	set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
	tell application "Spotify"
		set track_name to name of current track
		set track_artist to artist of current track
		set track_album to album of current track
	end tell
	
	do shell script "open \"http://genius.com/$(echo '" & quoted form of track_artist & "-" & quoted form of track_name & "' | sed -E 's|([ ]+)|-|g' | iconv -f 'utf-8' -t 'ASCII//TRANSLIT' | sed -E 's|[^a-zA-Z0-9-]||g')-lyrics\""
	
end if

end alfred_script

playpause.applescript

on alfred_script(q)
	tell application "Spotify"
		playpause
	end tell
end alfred_script

previous.applescript

on alfred_script(q)
	tell application "Spotify"
		previous track
	end tell
end alfred_script

show-notification-of-playing-song.applescript

-- biggest indicator of how long ago it was that I wrote this, 
-- I still have growl installed because I haven't bothered migrating to 
-- the built-in notifications

on alfred_script(q)
	set newline to "
	"

tell application "System Events"
	set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
	tell application "Spotify"
		set track_name to name of current track
		set track_artist to artist of current track
		set track_album to album of current track
	end tell
	
	tell application "Growl"
		-- Make a list of the notifications this script will ever send.
		set the notificationsList to {"Current Spotify Track"}
		
		-- Register our script with Growl
		-- You can optionally (as here) set a default icon
		-- for this script's notifications.
		register as application "Spotify Notifier Script" all notifications notificationsList default notifications notificationsList icon of application "Spotify"
		set desc to track_artist & newline & track_album
		notify with name "Current Spotify Track" title track_name description desc application name "Spotify Notifier Script" icon of application "Spotify.app"
	end tell
    end if

end alfred_script