Play spotify from powershell

Question

Me and my girl friend share a spotify account. As you probably know only one can listen at the same time. This results in endless "play-pause-fights". The problem is that I listen to spotify at work, so I don't have time to click play for more then about 15 minutes, so she wins.

Therefore I wanted to do as I always do when I am facing repetative tasks, make a script. I found a spotify module in powershell called PSSpotify. There I could call:

Invoke-Spotify -play

But this is actually -playpause, so in my loop:

while ( $true ){ sleep 1; invoke-spotify -play }

I paused my track every second, which was a bit anoying. So my question:

Can I run a command to check if spotify is playing?

Answer 1

Did you mean you want to check if the Spotify app process?

Get-Process -Name *spotify*

That will tell you if spotify process is running or not. I mean, if the process is running, it will return the details about that process.

So, you can do something like:

if (Get-Process -Name spotify) { #Do something }

Update: If you want to know if Spotify is playing or not, the answer is in the PSSpotify module:

Get-SpotifyStatus

This tells you if Spotify is currently playing a song