musicshelf README

Music Shelf lets you display your favorite playlists and albums right in the VS Code Explorer, and control playback without leaving your coding flow.

You will need spotify premium for most features like playback to work

Installation

Navigate to the VScode Store and search Music Shelf

Features

• 🔍 Spotify API Integration
  Search for playlists and albums and display them in the VS Code explorer.

• 🎧 Full Playback Control
  Play, pause, shuffle, skip — all directly inside VS Code.

• 📦 Explorer Integration
  Displays album art for a personalized dev workspace.

• 📟 Status Bar & Terminal Commands
  Control your music with quick shortcuts and terminal commands.

Commands

Find all the commands by hitting ctrl shift p on windows / cmd shift p on mac and typing ms

• Resume playback : Resumes your listening

• Pause playback: Pauses your listening

• Login : Logs in to allow you to access the API

• Turn on shuffle: Turns on shuffle when starting playlists/albums

• Turn off shuffle: Turns off shuffle when starting playlists/albums

• Search for playlist with URI: Asks for an input, a playlist URI, which can be found in app, and adds that specific playlist

• Remove Album: Type the exact name of the album to remove it from the display

• Search for Playlist: Searches to find your playlist

• Search for Album: Searches to find album

URI Guide

To add playlists with URI because spotify doesn't index all playlists in search, follow this quick process Firstly, navigate to your playlist in spotify, and click the three dots and navigate down to share

Then hit ALT on your keyboard to copy the URI

Then use the ms search for playlist with URI function and paste in that URI!

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release of musicshelf! Thank you for the support

License:

MIT

Known Issues

Sometimes, you will need to start listening to something on spotify first to use the application You will need Spotify Premium, due to API restrictions Searching playlists you have never listened to will not work properly. Try use URI's to search for playlists