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55 points jonathang6k | 1 comments | 25 Apr 24 00:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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1. 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.