Spotify users (those who haven’t switched due to the onslaught of AI slop in playlists) looking for yet another way to control playback in their top bar are… Not short of options, to be honest. Over the years I’ve covered a lot of panel applets, desktop widgets and other doohickeys that do similar things to this. Almost all of them use MPRIS, the freedesktop spec that allows apps to find out what media players are playing and control playback. Well, now there’s another choice in gSpotify. Only, this can do more than simply show the name of the streaming track: […]
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