Allow playback to be controlled from other programs, e.g. AppleScript or Shortcuts on macos

[schpet]

a feature that spotify and apple's Music app that i miss is being able to start playback from AppleScript. this e.g. lets me play and pause from a pomodoro timer application i use, and is a generic way for desktop apps to be composed which is cool! i'm not sure what a cross platform solution might look like, but AppleScript or Shortcuts support on mac would be something that i would use.

[dweymouth]

Do you happen to know how/what protocol these players use to allow remote control? I have briefly investigated this and I think the "cross-platform" thing will actually be just to implement it differently for each platform. On Linux, implementing the MPRIS standard allows remote control over D-bus and integration with the media keys and OS notification center. On Mac, there is the MPNowPlayingInfoCenter APIs, which I think is probably what enables this behavior in the other players. I am planning on (eventually) getting around to it, for which I'll need to implement a wrapper around these APIs (i.e. writing Obj-C wrapper code that exposes a C API, keeping all Obj-C objects internal, which can then be called through from Go through Cgo)

[schpet]

apologies on my slow response here! i don't have any knowledge here unfortunately.

i did take a quick look at the MPNowPlayingInfoCenter and MPRemoteCommand and that looks like a promising way to support the use-case i'm describing here, e.g. if a shortcut like this was able to control supersonic:

[dweymouth]

I wonder if this might be working now that MPRemoteCommandCenter support was added in 0.6.0?

[schpet]

thanks so much for following up – it took me a while to grab a new release but this is working now: i'm able to start this from shortcuts. i'm very excited to be using supersonic again! thank you!