Trigger Spotify to play song via the CLI

Mac's OSA Script is pretty neat. It's a handy way of controlling applications on your machine programmatically.

To get Spotify to play a song with a simple command, paste the following into your ~/.bash_aliases file.

alias pump="osascript -e 'tell application \"Spotify\" to play track \"spotify:track:3KliPMvk1EvFZu9cvkj8p1\"' end tell"

You can copy the "Spotify URI" of any song by right-clicking the track in Spotify.

Start a new terminal session, then type: pump. Your song should start playing!