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55 points jonathang6k | 5 comments | 25 Apr 24 00:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.661s | source
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spike021 ◴[25 Apr 24 06:01 UTC] No.40153967[source]▶
Nice! Back in around 2012 or so Spotify still didn't even do MacOS notifications so I rigged up an easy AppleScript to do it (I want to say with Growl first and a bit later with native notifications? Been a while).

It's always surprising to me that Spotify/Apple Music/etc. don't seem to want to natively add functionality like this to their UX.

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1. actionfromafar ◴[25 Apr 24 06:45 UTC] No.40154253[source]▶
Spotify wants you to spend time in their app. Apple is just doing Apple things, I guess.
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2. vsnf ◴[25 Apr 24 07:07 UTC] No.40154393[source]▶
Not that I want to spend any time at all in their app. Each passing day it gets simultaneously more neglected, and also receives random UX overhauls that make my life worse.
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3. guappa ◴[25 Apr 24 07:22 UTC] No.40154496[source]▶
I am starting to think that having designers as full time employees is counter productive.
4. luigi23 ◴[25 Apr 24 08:44 UTC] No.40155032[source]▶
They dont care if you want it or not. Spotify also doesnt provide shortcuts on ios, so its all planned. They want to farm real user actions and engagements, not applescripts.
5. spike021 ◴[25 Apr 24 15:50 UTC] No.40158988[source]▶
FWIW Apple always had an iTunes "now playing" thing for iChat back in the day so it's not like nobody over there thought of doing something like that.