Spotify Admute

Hate spotify ads? this script may help you.

A lightweight bash daemon that monitors the dbus for change in mpris title metadata and mutes/unmutes the default pulseaudio sink depending on whether or not it is an advert.

Dependencies

• pactl
• playerctl

Run as daemon

If you are running systemd,

1. copy systemd/admute.service to $HOME/.config/user/systemd/
2. edit the ExecStart path to %h/path/to/script (%h expands to $HOME), then

# start service
systemctl --user start admute.service

# automatically run service on boot
systemctl --user enable admute.service

If you're on i3wm, it is easier to just append this to your config,

exec --no-startup-id /path/to/script

Todo

• write systemd service file
• finish README
• measure performace