spotifast/docs/index.md

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title: Spotifast
description: A fast, lightweight Spotify app for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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  text: Spotify, native and fast
  tagline: A lightweight Spotify app for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Listen on your computer, browse your music, and control your other devices.
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      text: Download
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      text: What is Spotifast?
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      text: GitHub
      link: https://github.com/crmne/spotifast
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features:
  - icon: ⚡
    title: Lightweight
    details: Opens in well under a second and typically uses just 100–250 MB of memory.
  - icon: 🔊
    title: Spotify Connect
    details: Listen on your computer with smooth transitions between songs, or control music on a speaker, phone, or TV. Playback needs Spotify Premium.
  - icon: 📚
    title: Library and search
    details: Browse playlists, Liked Songs, albums, artists, and podcasts. Search the catalogue and edit playlists you own.
  - icon: 🎨
    title: Themes
    details: Choose light, dark, or your own colours. On Omarchy, Spotifast can follow your desktop theme as it changes, while the music keeps playing.
  - icon: 📻
    title: Winamp mini player
    details: Bring back the classic Winamp look, with skins, a playlist, sound controls, and animations that move to your music.
    link: /winamp/
    link_text: See it in action
  - icon: 🌀
    title: MilkDrop
    details: Watch colourful animations react to your music in their own window or full screen. Choose from more than 10,000 designs.
    link: /milkdrop/
    link_text: Open the guide
  - icon: ⌨️
    title: Desktop controls
    details: Use keyboard shortcuts and your keyboard's media keys. Keep the music playing after you close the window.
  - icon: 🔓
    title: Open source
    details: Free to use, study, and improve. Explore the code, report a problem, or help build the next version.
    link: https://github.com/crmne/spotifast
    link_text: Read the source
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## It turns into Winamp

Load a classic `.wsz` skin from the
[Winamp Skin Museum](https://skins.webamp.org). The mini player includes
animated sound displays, an equalizer to adjust your sound, and a playlist.
Roll it up into a thin bar or enlarge it while keeping the classic pixels
sharp. [See the mini player in detail](/winamp/).

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## MilkDrop with more than 10,000 presets

On first use, Spotifast automatically downloads the original MilkDrop 2
presets and projectM's Cream of the Crop collection. These visual designs
react to music playing on your computer, in a resizable window or full screen.
[See the controls and preset details](/milkdrop/).

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## WhatsApp, just as fast

**Want WhatsApp just as fast and native?** [ZapFast](https://zapfast.rocks) is
Spotifast's sibling: the same native interface, for WhatsApp. Both are built on [fastframe](https://github.com/crmne/fastframe), the shared
foundation for native Rust apps built with egui.

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