So, you've heard of Spotifious, eh? A natural Spotify controller for Alfred? Searches Spotify, controls your music, generally rocks?

It's built off a lot of other people's work— PHPFunk and David Ferguson especially— and tries to match the functionality of Alfred's integrated iTunes player. It's not perfect, but it does the job. And I think it's pretty cool.

A quick rundown of its coolness:

Spotifious just feels fun to use, like a real plugin for Alfred, not a workflow. It can do in-depth, album-scouring searches and gives you useful information even if something goes wrong.

Not unlike the iTunes Mini Player.

Spotifious is also especially Alfred-like. Just start typing to scour Spotify's servers for music. Browse through artists and albums like nobody's business and drill down through Queen's huge anthologies with a snappy context-based search.

Spotifious uses Packal to make sure you always have the latest version. It gives you a heads-up about what's going on with Spotify the moment you start it. And don't worry about errors— we'll handle those.

Latest version: v0.9 | Latest dev build: v0.9

1. Download this repository.
2. Open Spotifious.alfredworkflow by double-clicking it or dragging it into Alfred.
3. Double-click the thingy marked Hotkey (fig. i1).
4. Click the textfield labeled Hotkey and press ^⌘⏎.
5. Click Save to store the binding (fig. i2).
6. Continue on with your merry day— but now with Spotifious.

So let's assume you've downloaded and installed the workflow. Now what?

1. Press ^⌘⏎.

Good! You should briefly see a loading entry, then the main menu:

You can action the song title (press ⏎) to play or pause the song, action the album or artist to search for that album or artist, or just start typing to search for cool music.

Once you've searched for something, you can continue to browse albums and arists through Spotifious. Actioning an artist will bring up a list of their albums, and actioning an album will bring up the track list.

If you're looking through a really long album or a particularly prodigious artist, you can also narrow your search by typing a little more— Spotifious will search for results within the album or artist.

Note: You can always leave a menu and go back just by pressing ⌫.

A lot of people helped out on this:

• vdesabou and I trade ideas a ton
• PHPfunk and his PHP Alfred workflow inspired much of OhAlfred
• David Ferguson helped with some iffy Alfred glitches
• a slightly modified version of Entypo icon font face for icons.
• and many other people mentioned in the code.

Thanks to everyone who helped, and thanks to everyone who uses my work! Oh, and thanks for reading this whole README. I hope you enjoy Spotifious!

• Allow ⎇, ^, and ⌘ to function as modifiers (Open in Spotify, other things?).
• Provide settings menu in-app.
• Make main menu links go directly to menus.

See CHANGELOG.md for more detailed information.

• v0.9: Added error reporting and context-based searching; restructrued app.
• v0.8: Added new icons; set them as default
• v0.7: General clean-up; added artist- and album-specific menus
• v0.6: Added Alleyoop support
• v0.5: Added a menu system
• v0.1: Inital search system

This code is MIT Licensed.