scbrg / spilence

Automatically mute Spotify ads

spilence

Automatically mute Spotify ads.

spilence will automatically detect which PulseAudio sink is used by Spotify, and mute it when Spotify is playing an ad. If the automatic detection fails, spilence supports an option to manually set the associated sink.

Requirements

Spotify, PulseAudio, DBUS, awk, POSIX Shell

spilence uses the command line tool pactl to control PulseAudio. It also uses dbus-monitor to listen do events about song changes from Spotify.

spilence should be POSIX Shell compliant. bash is not a requirement. It is tested with Debian Almquist Shell.

Installation

$ make install

If you don not have write permissions to /usr/local/bin you may need to be root.

$ sudo make install

or just run spilence directly from the source directory

$ ./spilence

Usage

If Spotify is already running, you should simply be able to just run the command:

$ spilence

If that doesn't work (i.e. the automatic sink detection fails), or Spotify is not running already, you may manually supply a sink number or sink name on the command line.

$ spilence -s 2