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Raspberry Pi Spotify Status - The Sequel

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 Background Around a year ago, I set up a Raspberry Pi with a screen to show my Spotify status using a project on Github called " Nowify ." While this is an excellent project and worked well for most of my needs, I simply did not know how it was set up, as I was modifying someone else's project rather than just making my own. While possible, it became quite tricky to look through the project and add features according to my needs (automatic screen on/off, fixed scaling at small screen sizes, etc.) because I simply had no idea how the project had been put together. CS50 Over summer break and into the school year, I had been taking Harvard's free CS50 course, learning C, Python, and eventually HTML and CSS. For the final project for the course, I took a crack at recreating my favorite parts of Nowify, but with a few modifications to fit my needs. I was using my new knowledge of web app development, and hosting Python web apps with Flask, and got a rough demo together pr