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redirect_from: /what-is-fastpotify/
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title: What is Spotifast?
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description: What Spotifast offers, what you need to use it, and its current limits.
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---
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## Why Spotifast
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**Spotify, native and fast.** Spotifast is a lightweight Spotify app for
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Linux, macOS, and Windows. It opens in well under a second and typically uses
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100–250 MB of memory, while Spotify's desktop app often uses 600 MB to over 1 GB.
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Your Spotify playlists stay on your account.
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**Playback needs Spotify Premium.** Free accounts can browse and search, but
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cannot play music through Spotifast on this computer or another device.
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## What it does
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- **Plays music on this computer.** Spotifast appears as a Spotify Connect
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device. Select it from your phone or play music in the app. Playback has
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no added gaps between songs and supports up to 320 kbps. Optional settings
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keep songs at a similar loudness and reduce repeat downloads by keeping
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recently played audio.
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- **Controls other devices.** Move playback to a speaker, a phone, or
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another computer from the device picker, and keep controlling it: play,
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pause, skip, seek, shuffle, repeat, volume. The picker expands upward to
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show several devices at once, fitting the window; longer lists scroll.
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- **Library.** Browse playlists, Liked Songs, saved albums, followed artists,
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podcasts, and saved episodes. Create, edit, and reorder your playlists.
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- **Search** across songs, artists, albums, playlists, podcasts, and
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episodes, with artist pages, discographies, and related artists. When Spotify
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provides an artist profile, select its name on a song, including the top
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result, to open that page.
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- **Background playback.** Closing the window keeps the music playing from
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the system tray. Use your keyboard's media keys to play, pause, and skip.
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- **Themes.** Choose light, dark, or your own colours. On Omarchy, Spotifast
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can follow your desktop theme automatically. Pages can also take a colour
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from album art.
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<a id="account-safety"></a>
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## Will my Spotify account get banned?
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**We're not aware of any confirmed account bans caused by normal Premium
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listening through Spotifast or other players using the same playback
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software, [librespot](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot).**
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Spotifast plays music using your Spotify Premium subscription. It does not
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unlock Premium for Free accounts, remove ads, export songs, or bypass
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Spotify's copy protection. You sign in on Spotify's own website, and
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Spotifast never receives your Spotify password.
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Spotifast is independent of Spotify, so we cannot guarantee Spotify's future
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decisions. Changes at Spotify can also temporarily interrupt playback until
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the app is updated.
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## What it does not do
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Spotifast has a limited scope:
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- **Playing needs Spotify Premium**, both on this computer and when
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controlling another device. Free accounts can browse and search.
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- Setup asks for two Spotify approvals: one to access your library, another
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to play music on this computer. [How it connects](/how-it-connects/)
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explains why.
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- **Spotify Lossless is not available.** Playback supports up to 320 kbps.
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The playback software Spotifast uses, librespot, cannot play Spotify's
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protected lossless audio. Spotifast will reconsider this if
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[librespot adds lawful support](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/1583).
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- No video podcasts or social features.
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- Spotifast is an **unofficial** app. Changes at Spotify can temporarily
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break features until Spotifast is updated.
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Bug reports should include `spotifast.log`, `panic.log` after a crash, and
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steps to reproduce the problem. See the
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[issue form](https://github.com/crmne/spotifast/issues/new/choose).
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Development builds after 0.8.0 also record the app version, operating system,
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and graphics details in the log. If the window fails to open, the log can
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help explain why, even when you started the app from your desktop.
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## Prior art
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Spotifast is written in Rust, with [egui](https://github.com/emilk/egui) for
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its interface and [librespot](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot) for
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Spotify playback. It takes inspiration from
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[spotify-tui](https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui),
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[spotify-player](https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player),
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[ncspot](https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot), and
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[Omarchy Spotify](https://github.com/stappmus/Omarchy-Spotify). Spotifast is
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a sibling of [ZapFast](https://zapfast.rocks), a native client for WhatsApp.
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Both are built on [fastframe](https://github.com/crmne/fastframe), the shared
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foundation for native Rust apps built with egui.
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Spotifast is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by
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Spotify AB. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB.
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