Fastpotify
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A lightweight Spotify client built on librespot offers local playback and Spotify Connect.
Fastpotify is a native Spotify client for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It starts in under a second and uses 100-250 MB of RAM. Features include local gapless playback at up to 320 kbps, Spotify Connect controls, library browsing, playlist editing, light/dark/system themes, keyboard shortcuts, MPRIS media controls on Linux, and a system tray option.
It is built on the librespot project, which Spotify is reportedly working to block.
What commenters are saying
The top comment warns that Spotify is killing the librespot project underpinning most third-party clients, calling the golden age of streaming over and advocating self-hosted libraries like Navidrome. Others counter that reverse-engineering APIs is hard to prevent, and that existing Spotify Connect hardware makes protocol changes difficult.
A major subthread discusses music discovery without streaming services, with commenters recommending internet radio (NTS, SomaFM, FIP, KEXP), Bandcamp, word of mouth, local libraries, and college stations as alternatives to algorithm-driven discovery.