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title: Make It Even Faster
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description: "Reduce loading delays with your own Spotify connection."
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nav_order: 6
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---
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## API rate limits
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Spotify limits how often apps can ask for information. Spotifast normally
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shares this allowance with other listeners and several other music players.
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When that shared connection is busy, your library and search results can take
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longer to load. The top bar shows a spinner while you wait.
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You can reduce those delays by creating a **personal Spotify app**. This is
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a connection registered to your account on Spotify's developer website.
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You do not need to write code or install another player.
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Spotifast offers this setup once after you sign in with Premium. Choose
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**Set up personal app** to open Settings, or **Keep shared app** to continue
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as you are. You can set it up later in Settings.
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A personal app gives many of your searches and library requests a separate
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allowance. Creating one is free and takes a few minutes, and Spotify requires
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a Premium account. If you create several personal apps, they share your
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account's allowance, following Spotify's
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[July 2026 quota update](https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-07-23-web-api-quota-updates).
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Some features still use the shared connection, and your personal connection
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has limits too.
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## Shared coverage stays active
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Your personal connection searches songs, artists, albums, podcasts, and
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episodes. The shared connection finds playlists and supplies features Spotify
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does not make available to personal apps, such as recommendations and related
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artists. Search results appear as each part is ready, so a delayed playlist
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search does not hold up the songs.
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Spotify allows personal apps ten search results at a time for each type,
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compared with twenty on the shared connection.
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Setting up playback on this computer also helps playlists load faster.
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Spotifast can load playlists that would otherwise use the shared allowance
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through its music connection instead.
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[How it connects](/how-it-connects/) explains which connection each feature uses.
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## Make a Spotify app
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1. Open the [Spotify developer dashboard](https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard)
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and sign in with your Spotify account. Spotify asks that it be a
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Premium account.
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2. Click **Create app**. Any name and description will do; nobody else
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sees them.
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3. Under **Redirect URIs**, add exactly:
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```
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http://127.0.0.1:8989/login
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```
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4. Tick **Web API**, accept the terms, and save.
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5. The app's page shows its **Client ID**. Copy it.
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## Use it in Spotifast
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1. Open **Settings**, find **Personal Spotify app**, and paste the
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Client ID.
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2. Click **Authorize**. Your browser opens Spotify's sign-in for your app.
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Spotifast verifies that it belongs to the same Spotify account, then shows
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**Personal app ready**.
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Your playback setup stays the same. Select **Remove** to stop using your
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personal connection and return to shared access.
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