Scoop-Spotify

!! Spotify and Spicetify now exist in official scoop repos. Spicetify also includes adblock extensions now. This fork is being maintained only for my personal use from now on. !!

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https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Core#installation

Bucket

A Scoop bucket for Spotify, Spicetify and related packages.

scoop bucket add spotify https://github.com/zwxi/Scoop-Spotify.git

...I've spent an unhealthy amount of time on automating all of this.

Fork notes

• Be sure to check the spicetify-cli repo and spicetify-themes repo for open issues if you face any errors. Feel free to open an issue here too.
• Forked from the original repo and remaintained fixing all errors.
• All instances of the original are replaced in this README. This is not an attempt to steal credit.
• Rewritten some parts to update with the current status of the spicetify project
• PRs to the original repo merged to this one. All of them are mentioned in their respective commit descriptions too.
  • Use Windows SID instead of the name Everyone for better system language compatibility #47 by dionysius
  • Fix init-spicetify-config script for spicetify v2 #51 by SaifAqqad
  • Update the config init script to handle both the profiles #61 by Lunchb0ne

hash check failed

• If the manifest has been recently updated due to very recent changes to the respective repos this error might occour.
• Feel free the click the link that pops up when this happens to report the issue (you can also manually report an issue)
• You can also use the -s or --skip flag when installing/updating to skip the hash-check step

scoop-update error

If it shows any error while running scoop update, you can

• Try again after some time to see if it goes away
• Remove and re-add the bucket with scoop bucket rm spotify and scoop bucket add spotify https://github.com/zwxi/Scoop-Spotify.git all apps will stay installed

Notes

• None of the packages in this bucket can be installed globally.
• If you have the means, please buy Spotify Premium instead of installing BlockTheSpot.
• All of the Spicetify packages require Spotify to be installed either through this Scoop bucket or the official installer.
• All themes, extensions and custom apps for Spicetify should be installed to ~\.spicetify instead of the spicetify-cli installation directory.
• Installing or updating any of the packages in this bucket automatically applies the Spicetify configuration and preserves BlockTheSpot if it is installed.
• Extension managers such as spicetify-marketplace can be installed with it's installation instructions nativeley. Use spicetify-apply instead of spicetify apply as always after installation
• All Spicetify packages apart from spicetify-cli depend on spicetify-cli.
• --purge or -p should be used to fully uninstall all packages apart from blockthespot, google-spicetify and spicetify-themes.

BlockTheSpot

• This blocks advertisements for the latest version of Spotify.
• This package depends on spotify-latest and spicetify-cli.
• Spicetify will also auto install but it won't theme by default so changes will be minimal. Spicetify is needed to remove upgrade buttons
• This is not an executable program. spotify-latest will be patched automatically every time this package or any of the Spicetify packages are installed or updated.
• If BlockTheSpot is ever reset, blockthespot can be run to reapply it. This usually happens after running Spicetify commands, and running spicetify-apply rather than spicetify apply ensures that BlockTheSpot is enabled if it is installed.
• Removes ad placeholder and the upgrade button

spicetify-autoVolume

• See here to modify the configuration. autoVolume.js can be found at ~\.spicetify\Extensions\autoVolume.js.

spicetify-cli

• Experimental features, fast user switching and all default extensions apart from Auto Skip Videos and all default apps are enabled by default. Note: Default apps in the sidebar can be toggled to be hidden from the 'sidebar config' menu in compatible themes or by removing the apps from config-xpui.ini
• spicetify-apply is should be run instead of spicetify apply if BlockTheSpot is installed, as it ensures that BlockTheSpot is enabled if it is installed.
• It should be noted that spicetify-apply also runs spicetify restore and spicetify backup before running spicetify apply to ensure that changes are applied every time.
• For similar reasons, spicetify-enable-devtool and spicetify-disable-devtool should be run instead of spicetify enable-devtool and spicetify disable-devtool.
• The three above commands also support the -quiet switch.

spicetify-canary

• Nightly builds of the spicetify-cli repo built by my own Github Actions hosted here
• Recommended to be installed and updated with the -k flag to avoid the cached copy
• This version should be uninstalled before using the release version of spicetify
• Recommended only if the release version has bugs which were recently fixed

spicetify-jqbx

• This requires Spotify Premium.

spicetify-themes

• Installs spicetify/spicetify-themes

Spotify (latest)

• This is the latest version of Spotify.
• Unlike Ash258's version, this version installs completely silently and to the Scoop directory.
• Spotify's built-in updater is disabled, and Scoop should be used to update it instead.
• Spotify should be installed locally and not globally.
• This cannot be installed concurrently with spotify-with-blockthespot.

Spotify with BlockTheSpot

• Absolutley not recommended at all. Not updated and not guaranteed to work
• This is an outdated version of Spotify (1.1.4.197.g92d52c4f) with an old version of BlockTheSpot.
• Spotify's built-in updater is disabled.
• Spotify with BlockTheSpot should be installed locally and not globally.
• Installation and uninstallation of this package require administrator privileges.
• This cannot be installed concurrently with spotify-latest.

Installing and customizing Spotify

First, the latest version of Spotify should be installed:

  scoop install spotify-latest

Note that Spotify should not be installed globally, as it stores files in user-specific directories.

Once Spotify is installed, spicetify-cli can be installed to customize the Spotify client:

  scoop install spicetify-cli

Again, spicetify-cli should be installed locally, as it also stores files in a user-specific location.

spicetify-themes can be installed for a collection of community-created themes for Spicetify. Obviously, this should also be installed locally:

  scoop install spicetify-themes

google-spicetify is also available:

  scoop install google-spicetify

I can recommend the Default theme, which can be applied by running the following:

  spicetify config current_theme Default
  spicetify-apply

To install spicetify-cli and apply a theme silently, the theme can be configured before installing spicetify-themes. When any of the Spicetify packages are installed, the current configuration is applied, and if Spotify was open previously, it is reopened.

  scoop install spicetify-cli
  spicetify config current_theme Default
  scoop install spicetify-themes

spicetify-autoVolume can be installed to automatically decrease the volume at specific intervals of time:

  scoop install spicetify-autovolume

BlockTheSpot can be installed to block advertisements:

  scoop install blockthespot

All of the above packages can be updated through Scoop.

If you don't care about reading any of this and just want a quick way to install ad-blocked Spotify with the Default theme, and developer tools, copy and paste this into PowerShell:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser -Force
Invoke-Expression (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://get.scoop.sh')

scoop install git sudo

scoop bucket add spotify https://github.com/zwxi/Scoop-Spotify.git
scoop install spotify-latest blockthespot spicetify spicetify-themes spicetify-autovolume

spicetify config current_theme Default --quiet
spicetify-enable-devtool -quiet

Or even shorter, but with Sleek theme and Deep color config as I like it :

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser -Force; iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zwxi/Scoop-Spotify/master/basic-setup.ps1 | iex

I wrote the above script mostly for people who don't care about using Scoop and just need a foolproof way to set everything up automatically.

And in the future, if you want to update any installed packages:

  scoop update *