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55 points jonathang6k | 1 comments | 25 Apr 24 00:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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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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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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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1. 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.