Re: Spotify and playlist management
Ok, so I've actually found a solution which is a bit of a pain in the ass, but it's better than going through the agony of adding a hundred or more songs via my phone.
I should point out that I never would have known about this if not for the NVDA email list. Funnily enough, I had not checked my email in several weeks, and while wading through the insane amount of messages that had accumulated there, I happened to stumble across someone who had more or less the same question. Call it fate or what have you, but I followed the discussion with interest.
It turns out that using object nav also allows you to add songs to playlists. When you search for a song, you can scroll down to where the results are, then left click on the song's title. An unlabelled button appears above the track name once you've done this. It's a play button. i don't know if it's strictly necessary to click on this button once you've found it, but I've had good results doing that. Besides, I prefer to check the quality, and make sure that it's the version of said song that I want before adding it anyway, so it can't hurt. Now, once the song begins playing, and you're sure it's the one you want, go to the title of the song once more, and right click it. You then have to do control end to get down to the bottom of the page. Scroll up a bit until you see a clickable object that says add to playlist. This also needs to be left clicked on. Then you can scroll down a few more lines until you see the name of the playlist you'd like to add the track to. Again, left click on this. Voila, you've now got your tracks added.
Is that excessively complex? Hell yes, it is. I wish it were easier. But it's the best we've got for now, assuming you're lazy and impatient like me, and don't particularly relish the thought of taking twice as long to enter the same info into your smartphone. It would be sweet if an NVDA add-on were created to make the Spotify client less cumbersome. As an aside, I tried these same steps with the latest version of JAWS 18; no go. I seem to remember there being a specialized, though paid, set of scripts that one could purchase in order to make Spotify more accessible with JAWS, although I don't know much about them and don't know how well they work. So keep in mind that, as far as I know, working with NVDA is the best way of interacting with Spotify's PC client at this point. In fact, I'm highly considering doing an audio demo of this for my podcast in the near future, for those who prefer to hear things being demonstrated as opposed to textual information.
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