Spotifast (formerly Fastpotify)

TESIGN TAKE

A third-party client that puts a number on 'it could be lighter'; just note that without Premium you can browse but not listen.

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE

MIT

USAGE

Use, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice.

LANGUAGE

Rust

PLATFORM

linux · macos · windows · cli

ACTIVITY

last commit within 24 h (2026-11-02) · latest release v0.16.0 (2026-11-01) · 38 releases As of 11-02 02:17 UTC

COMMUNITY

125 contributors · 92 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual As of 11-02 02:17 UTC

SOURCES

Show HN + GitHub

OPEN SOURCE

YES

FIRST SEEN

2026-09-13 09:37 UTC

WHY IT MATTERS

Where Spotify's own desktop app often uses 600 MB to over 1 GB of RAM, Spotifast typically runs the same library, search and playback in 100-250 MB and starts in well under a second. It plays through librespot and appears as a Spotify Connect device, so you can pick this computer from your phone or control a speaker from the desktop. It was renamed from Fastpotify to Spotifast at 0.8.0, and the repository now redirects to crmne/spotifast.

BUILD FROM THIS

Read playback state through subcommands like fastpotify now-playing --raw on macOS and Windows or MPRIS on Linux to build Stream Deck, Raycast, hotkey or status-bar integrations, and ship JSON palettes in the themes folder beside settings.json.

WHO IT'S FOR

Spotify Premium listeners, Linux users especially: a native player that uses less memory
Keyboard and launcher fans: control playback with shortcuts and CLI subcommands
The Winamp generation: a .wsz-skin mini player and the MilkDrop visualiser

START IN 5 MINUTES

# # Windows installer / macOS DMG / Linux deb, rpm, Flatpak: https://spotifast.rocks/download/
# yay -S spotifast-bin      # Arch Linux (AUR)
# brew install --cask crmne/tap/spotifast   # macOS (Homebrew)
# cargo install --path . --locked           # elsewhere: Rust 1.95 or newer, inside a clone
# # Without MilkDrop: cargo install --path . --locked --no-default-features

CAVEATS

Licence MIT. Playback requires Spotify Premium; free accounts can only browse and search. It is unaffiliated with Spotify, and the author only says they are 'not aware' of account suspensions, which is not a guarantee.
Renamed from Fastpotify to Spotifast at 0.8.0; the repository and site moved to crmne/spotifast and spotifast.rocks, and the command is spotifast (fastpotify still works).
Windows installers, a macOS DMG and Linux deb/rpm/Flatpak ship on GitHub Releases and spotifast.rocks/download; elsewhere build from source with Rust 1.95 or newer. The MilkDrop build needs CMake, a C++ compiler and libclang, and opening MilkDrop for the first time downloads about 26 MB of presets.

RECEIPT

FIRST SEEN

2026-09-13 09:37 UTC

AT SOURCE

2026-08-28 14:50 UTC

KEPT

2026-09-14 19:27 UTC

CREATED → FIRST SEEN

15d

SOURCES

Show HN + GitHub

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