Toastify

Toastify adds new functions to Spotify, all designed to help you work easier with the popular audio player. From an expanded set of hotkeys to song change notifications, Toastify comes with handy options to offer you enhanced playback control.

Needless to say, Spotify has to be installed on the computer for Toastify to work. To use it, you just have to launch Spotify and then Toastify, which will result in the appearance of both icons in the system tray. To be noted that the Toastify.xml file needs to be deleted in case of an upgrade from a previous version.

Configuration options are available in the 'Settings' window of Toastify. Here, you can instruct it to automatically launch at startup and minimize Spotify as Toastify is opened. Additional options enable you to tamper with the volume changing options and define a template for when a song's name is copied to the clipboard. On top of that, the artist's name and the album can be saved to a specific text file when the song changes, thus creating a playback history log.

Toastify can also add extra hotkeys for controlling Spotify, enriching the default list of shortcut keys the player comes with. As such, you can play, pause and stop the current song, jump to the previous or next track, rewind and fast forward, adjust the volume (you can also do all of this in Spotify, but without being able to customize the hotkeys), show or hide the player, copy and paste the name of the current track, and give 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' to a song.

One of the most important features of Toastify is that it shows a small popup notification each time the song changes. Although this option can be easily disabled, most users find it quite handy to have the name of the playing song near the tray area, especially since the appearance of the so-called 'toast' is completely customizable.

There is no doubt that using Toastify together with Spotify can enhance your experience with the player. Whenever the song is changed, the notification window is displayed near the tray area, enabling you to view its title and the artist's name. The extended array of customizable hotkeys allows you to control playback in an efficient manner.