Save to Your Library is a great way to save favorite songs and play them back as a playlist later. It's also cool to make Your Library > Songs available offline on mobile. Then you're never without something good to listen to.
While listening on my desktop computer I'd like to effortlessly add the current track to my library.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to make this happen?
For reference, there was a similar feature called "Starred" with an outdated SuperUser Question here.
2024 Update
Even though they said they never would, Spotify added hotkeys.
But, they still aren't global.
This Autohotkey V2 script turns Shift+Alt+B (the new Add to Your Library command) into a global hotkey.
It will quickly activate Spotify, send the command, then reactivate the currently active app.
; === Dollar Sign ($) allows the script to Send the hotkey if desired. ===
; Shift+Alt+B
$!+B:: SaveSpotifyNowPlayingToYourEpisodes()
SaveSpotifyNowPlayingToYourEpisodes() {
activeId := WinGetID("A")
for spotifyId in WinGetList("ahk_exe Spotify.exe") {
WinActivate "ahk_id " spotifyId
WinWaitActive "ahk_id " spotifyId
Send "+!b"
}
WinActivate "ahk_id " activeId
}
Previous answer for posterity
No keyboard shortcuts, let alone Save to Your Library, are built into Spotify desktop apps and probably never will. In December 2016 they marked the request (originally from 2012) as "Not Right Now".
For macOS users I don't know a solution.
For Windows users AutoHotkey is a fairly workable.
Here is an AutoHotkey script that works as of 10-30-2017.
; Control+Shift+Win+F1
^+#F1:: SendInput {Media_Play_Pause}
; Control+Shift+Win+F2
^+#F2:: SendInput {Media_Prev}
; Control+Shift+Win+F3
^+#F3:: SendInput {Media_Next}
; Control+Shift+Win+F4
^+#F4:: SaveSongToSpotifyLibrary()
SaveSongToSpotifyLibrary() {
spotify := "ahk_exe spotify.exe"
if WinExist(spotify) {
; Store starting window ID and mouse position.
MouseGetPos x, y, startingWinId
; Activate Spotify.
WinActivate %spotify%
WinWaitActive %spotify%
saveToYourLibraryIcon = %A_WorkingDir%\apps\SpotifyController\SaveToYourLibraryIcon.png
ImageSearch FoundX, FoundY, 0, 0, A_ScreenWidth, A_ScreenHeight, %saveToYourLibraryIcon%
if (ErrorLevel = 0) {
Click %FoundX%, %FoundY%
} else if (ErrorLevel = 2) {
MsgBox % "Problem conducting image search. Is the saveToYourLibraryIcon in the correct location?"
} else if (ErrorLevel = 1) {
MsgBox % "Unable to save song. Can't find the Add button."
}
; Restore original window and mouse position.
WinActivate ahk_id %startingWinId%
MouseMove %x%, %y%
}
}
Instructions
If you've never created a script before please see the Beginner's Tutorial.
This uses the ImageSearch function. I created the image-to-find by taking a screenshot of the plus button in the bottom left corner of the Spotify app.
You can create one yourself or download this one.
Name it SaveToYourLibraryIcon.png and place it in the same directory as your script.
That's it.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Win+F4 (change this to whatever you want) and the active song will be added to your library!
Alt + Shift + B works on Windows when Spotify is the active window.
You can check out all keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl + /
Spotify added a few native shortcuts which you can inspect with Shift+? according to https://support.spotify.com/article/keyboard-shortcuts/
MacOS
You can add a song to your liked songs by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B
Other OS's
You can look up all shortcuts with Shift+?.
On Mac, with Keyboard Maestro it's pretty easy to put together a macro to like a song from the keyboard and go back to work. Here's how the macro looks visually:
I usually keep Spotify in half of my secondary monitor so it won't interrupt application workflow too much. I could do it in the background if there were a menu item for "like song" but there isn't.
Other Mac macro utilities or Apple Script or Automator could mostly do something similar but Keyboard Maestro is the one I use (faster to create macros, easier to build), hence my solution for using Keyboard Maestro.
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oShell.SendKeys("^%{s}")
WScript.Sleep 1000
oShell.SendKeys"%+{b}"
WScript.Sleep 1000
oShell.SendKeys("^%{s}")
Now I can add likes and remove likes with one button without stopping from work, but it seems to me that the spent day was not worth it :D
