Delay before affecting spotify

[IZeeLikeEyeZee]

There is a noticeable delay between running the script and the script actually affecting spotify (~1s), is there any way to reduce that? It seems like initializing the fake device or whatever might be the main cause of that, so maybe there's a way to keep it initialized in the background?

Idrk what I'm talking about though so if it's possible to make it more instant that would be great 😄

[CriticalElement]

Creating the fake device takes around a second or two, and this is unavoidable - however executing any commands after creating the SpotifyPlayer should be sub-second. If you're making a program that will change the playback state over a long duration of time, you should just use the same SpotifyPlayer instance, to avoid the overhead of creating a new device.

[IZeeLikeEyeZee]

Sorry I don't really know how to code, how could I use the same SpotifyPlayer instance instead of creating a new device?

[CriticalElement]

Just use the same variable assigned to the SpotifyPlayer instance. Creating the fake device is done by initializing the SpotifyPlayer (line 1), and any commands do not need to create a new fake device, they just use the same device that was instantiated.

spotifyplayer = SpotifyPlayer() # 1-2 secs
spotifyplayer.command(spotifyplayer.pause) # < 0.5 secs

# some long operation here
time.sleep(10)

spotifyplayer.command(spotifyplayer.resume) # < 0.5 secs 

Creating the fake device at the beginning is unavoidable, so the start of the program is bound to have 1-2 seconds of overhead, but each command after should be sub 0.5 seconds.