Spotifast

This is a community package of Spotifast, maintained independently and unaffiliated with the Spotifast project. It repackages the official upstream Linux release build unmodified.

Spotifast is a lightweight Spotify client written in Rust with egui, playing music through librespot. There is no browser engine in the process and it starts in well under a second.

• Plays music on this computer as a Spotify Connect device: gapless, up to 320 kbps, with optional volume normalisation and an on-disk audio cache.
• Controls playback on your other devices — speakers, phones, other computers — from the device picker.
• Discovers librespot, spotifyd and hardware Connect receivers on the local network over mDNS.
• Your whole library: playlists, Liked Songs, saved albums, followed artists, podcasts and saved episodes, with search and Home recommendations.
• Owned playlists can be created, renamed, described, reordered and edited.
• Keyboard-first, light and dark themes, MPRIS integration so media keys and playerctl work, and a system tray icon that keeps playback running when the window is closed.

Sign-in uses Spotify's own consent page (Authorization Code with PKCE); the app never sees your password. Playing music on this computer needs Spotify Premium. Spotifast is an independent project and is not affiliated with Spotify.

Permissions: this package grants display, audio (PulseAudio/PipeWire), network access, the GPU device, MPRIS, the StatusNotifier tray and the Secret Service. Settings and the audio/artwork caches stay inside the sandbox under ~/.var/app/rocks.spotifast.Spotifast; the Spotify sign-in grants are kept in the desktop's secret store (Secret Service). No host filesystem access is granted or needed.

Optional overrides:

• Silence the tray and rely on MPRIS only: flatpak override --user --no-talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher rocks.spotifast.Spotifast
• Desktop notifications (not used by default): flatpak override --user --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications rocks.spotifast.Spotifast