Our media centre machine at home is an aging Mac with only one open port: SSH. Since it was getting annoying to have to walk up to it every time we wanted to control Spotify, I wrote a simple Bash/Apple script that allows us to remotely control the program from other machines around the house.

With it, we can now do things like this:

Playing one of the best songs ever via the command-line.
Playing one of the best songs ever via the command-line.

Find out more and download Shpotify from the official GitHub project page!