It would be a great addition to add a skin of the spotify on the desktop, that way you could minimize the full screen, put on a playlist and not have it take up your entire monitor. I realize you can minimize it to go away, but you have to open it back up if you want to skip a couple of songs. Otherwise, can't get enough of Spotify. Spotio is a light skin for the Spotify desktop app that provides an aesthetically pleasing antidote to the Spotify app's default dark look.
Spotify has done an excellent job at making sure that the theme experience is the same irrespective of the platform the app is on. Its dark design is pretty much its identity – but that’s now about to change.
A ton of top websites, blogs, and people we follow have spent the past day going up and down over a new Spotify skin called Spotio.
As an avid Spotify listener myself (although only on the free tier, cos I ain’t made of moneyI couldn’t check it out.
So I did, but with my fingers tightly crossed that Linux support was on offer…
Spotio was created by Devin Halladay, who received inspiration to create the lighter, airy-er theme for Spotify after the famous Rdio closed.
David wrote on the Github project that “If you decided to go with Spotify after Rdio was bought but, like me, you miss Rdio’s light UI, you’re in luck—I discovered that you can skin the Spotify app with CSS”
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. Sep 02, 2016 Spotio is a light theme for Spotify’s desktop app. Spotio is the work of Devin Halladay, who was inspired to create the lighter, airier theme for Spotify after the (sorely missed) Rdio closed. “If you decided to go with Spotify after Rdio was bought but, like me, you miss Rdio’s light UI, you’re in luck—I discovered that you can skin. Spotify has done an excellent job at making sure that the theme experience is the same irrespective of the platform the app is on. Its dark design is pretty much its identity – but that’.
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The fact that Spotio is currently only available for macOS is the only “bad news” as the app is being re-packaged and re-distributed with the new theme assets included.
The “good news” is that Linux support will be available for the theme soon and hopefully, there will be a ready installer to download as soon as the weekend hits.
We’ll update you once we know that the Linux build is out. For now, you can download Spotio for your macOS(or just get more info) at Devin’s website. If you want to join the developer team so that it can come quicker to Linux then you can contribute to the project on Github.
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Spotify’s dark design is very much its identity. No matter the platform you use it on, the dark theme is there staring back at you.
Until now.
A bunch of ace websites, blogs and people I follow have spent the past 24 hours waxing lyrical over a new Spotify skin called Spotio.
As an avid Spotify listener myself (although only on the free tier, cos I ain’t made of money) I couldn’t not check it out.
So I did, but with my fingers tightly crossed that Linux support was on offer…
Spotio is a light theme for Spotify’s desktop app
Spotio is the work of Devin Halladay, who was inspired to create the lighter, airier theme for Spotify after the (sorely missed) Rdio closed.
“If you decided to go with Spotify after Rdio was bought but, like me, you miss Rdio’s light UI, you’re in luck—I discovered that you can skin the Spotify app with CSS,” Devin writes on the Github project.
Devon’s nifty hack reskins Spotify in a somewhat similar way to the Ubuntu Spotify skin we featured way back in history.
The “bad news” is that Spotio is currently only available for macOS, with the app being re-packaged and distributed with the new theme assets included.
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The “good news” is that Linux support is coming. An installer is hopefully going to be ready to download over the weekend.
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We’ll update this article as soon as we know the Linux build is out, but in the meantime you can learn more (and even download Spotio if you’re on macOS) at Devin’s website, or get involved in hurrying along the Linux build by contributing to the project on GitHub.