github.com-crmne-fastpotify_-_2026-09-09_15-57-34

music · operating-system · audio · macOS · Linux · crmne

Spotify, native and fast. One lightweight Rust app for your whole library, local playback, and Spotify Connect on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Fastpotify Spotify, native and fast. Fastpotify is a Spotify client written inRust with egui . It plays music through librespot . It typically uses100–250 MB of RAM, while Spotify's desktop app often uses 600 MB to over 1 GB.It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, starts in well under a second, and has nobrowser engine. Playback needs Spotify Premium. Free accounts can browse and search, butcannot play music through Fastpotify on this computer or another device. See fastpotify.rocks for installation, setup,everyday use, and connection details. What it does Plays music on this computer. Fastpotify appears as a Spotify Connectdevice. Select it from your phone or play music in the app. Playback isgapless and supports up to 320 kbps, withoptional volume normalisation and an on-disk audio cache.Stalled Spotify connections time out after five seconds per attempt soplayback can try another endpoint. Controls other devices. Move playback to a speaker, a phone, oranother computer from the device picker, and keep controlling it: play,pause, skip, seek, shuffle, repeat, volume. Long device lists scroll. Finds speakers on your network. Fastpotify finds librespot, spotifyd,and supported hardware receivers over mDNS. Once connected, they appear asSpotify Connect devices. The picker uses responding receivers' names andcombines entries with the same device ID. Library. Browse playlists, Liked Songs, saved albums, followed artists,podcasts, and saved episodes. Filter, pin, and reorder sidebar items.On main , after 0.7.1, choose name, recent plays, or saved-date order whereavailable. Follow Spotify’s playlist order or keep a separate local arrangement.Move Liked Songs among your pins or unpin it and choose its local position;the placement survives restarts.Liked Songs reopens from an account-specific metadata cache. Older rowsrefresh in the background while Like and Unlike take effect immediately.Right-click album, artist, and podcast cards for their actions (on main ,after 0.7.1). Search across songs, artists, albums, playlists, podcasts, and episodes,with a top result and per-type views. Right-click results and cards for their actions. Home with Made for you, Recently played, your top artists and songs, andrecommendations. Right-click playlist shortcuts and shelf cards for their actions. Artist pages with popular songs, a filterable discography, and relatedartists. Album , playlist , and podcast pages support playbackfrom any row.Discography and related-artist cards also have right-click menus (on main ,after 0.7.1).Artist names in the player bar open their pages, including during localplayback before Web API metadata arrives (on main , after 0.7.1). Edit your playlists. Create, rename, describe, reorder, and delete them.On main , after 0.7.1, hold a dragged song near the playlist's top or bottomedge to scroll to rows beyond the screen. The Library sidebar scrolls whiledragging toward offscreen playlists too.Add songs from a row menu, or drag a row or the currently playing song to aplaylist in the sidebar. On main , after 0.7.1, drop a song from the playerbar, queue, or another list between rows of an open editable playlist toinsert it there. This adds a copy and leaves playback and the queue unchanged.Clear the playlist’s filter and sort to choose an insertion position.Drop it on an empty playlist to add its first song.A playlist a friend shared with you takes songs too,as Spotify's own apps allow. Filter the Add to playlist menu by name tofind the destination quickly. Opens Spotify links. Fastpotify registers for spotify: links, so asong, album, artist, playlist, or podcast shared from another app opensin it, whether it is running or not. open.spotify.com addresses gothrough the browser, which hands them to the same handler. Queue as a side panel or a page; it names what is playing from, andanything can be added to it from a row menu. Add to queue places songsafter those already queued and before the context continues. Resumes the last session. On startup, the last song is paused where itstopped. Play resumes it, and the other playback controls work before itstarts. Album-art colour. Pages and the player bar take a tint from the coverof what you are looking at or listening to. Turn it off in Settings. Light and dark , or follow the system. Winamp mini player. Ctrl+M opens a small player for classic .wsz skins, drawn at 1x to 4x scale. It includes a spectrum analyser, playlist,and equalizer. It keeps its shade mode and, where the desktop permits,its own position when switching views. Drop a skin from the Winamp Skin Museum on either window to add it.On Windows, after 0.7.1, hide its taskbar button from Settings or the miniplayer's options menu while keeping the window and tray controls available. Equalizer. Winamp's ten bands and presets over the music played onthis computer, in Settin