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  "slug": "spotifast",
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  "name": "Spotifast (formerly Fastpotify)",
  "use_label": "Lightweight Spotify client (Premium)",
  "one_liner": "Native Rust Spotify client, 100-250 MB RAM, Linux/macOS/Windows; playback needs Premium",
  "text": {
    "why": "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.",
    "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.",
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      "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."
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      {
        "role": "Spotify Premium listeners, Linux users especially",
        "situation": "a native player that uses less memory"
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      {
        "role": "Keyboard and launcher fans",
        "situation": "control playback with shortcuts and CLI subcommands"
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      {
        "role": "The Winamp generation",
        "situation": "a .wsz-skin mini player and the MilkDrop visualiser"
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        "text": "# Windows installer / macOS DMG / Linux deb, rpm, Flatpak: https://spotifast.rocks/download/"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "yay -S spotifast-bin      # Arch Linux (AUR)"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "brew install --cask crmne/tap/spotifast   # macOS (Homebrew)"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "cargo install --path . --locked           # elsewhere: Rust 1.95 or newer, inside a clone"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "# Without MilkDrop: cargo install --path . --locked --no-default-features"
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      "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."
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    "spotify-connect"
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    "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.",
    "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.",
    "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.",
    "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.",
    "A summary, not legal advice."
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