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I hacked the official client apart to hide some bullshit (like podcasts) and fix bugs that were pissing me off. Shared it exactly once and it stopped working within a month. Bugs were still there too

I stopped sharing after that.

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Have you seen Spicetify[0]? It allows for this kind of stuff and seems to be a lot more stable than doing it all manually.

[0] https://spicetify.app/

I have, it's good, but it is not compatible with some of the things I am doing which are quite a bit more foundational/stuctural. The pile of scripts I've accumulated do a pretty good job of resolving easy breakages, listing anything worse, and running a little lap around all of my typical interactions (from another account running in a cloud vm) to diff the network requests so I look normal to them.

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