spotifast

Spotifast 0.17 makes Windows Media Player skins real, and brings two of our own, Spotifast Tall and Spotifast Wide, with MilkDrop in their glass. Skins now run their own scripts, in a sandbox, so their drawers, intro animations, playlists, equalizers and extra windows work the way they did in Windows Media Player. Spotify Soloist has a new setup and clearer Settings, and when it stops, Spotifast now stays usable and brings it back by itself.

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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/78bbfddd-decf-4ee5-bfe9-1a7cd2a8fe48

The full-quality film is attached below as spotifast-0.17-skins.mp4.

New

• Windows Media Player skins of our own. Spotifast Tall is a small white ceramic ribbon round a smoked-glass core, made to live at the side of your screen. A thread of green light traces it as it opens and burns under its arch while the music plays. The square switches between the album art and MilkDrop, which then fills the glass, and the glass turns to an equalizer or your queue. Spotifast Wide is the same object laid on its side. Pick either in Settings. By @crmne.
• Windows Media Player skins run as they were made. Their scripts run in a sandbox with no access to your files, the network or other programs. Every view works: drawers, shutters, hidden panels, separate windows, and windows shaped like the skin. Playlist panels show your queue, equalizer panels change Spotifast's equalizer, and visualization areas show the same bars or sound wave as Winamp skins. By @crmne and @davorb.
• See your skins before you wear them. Settings now shows a picture of every skin, Winamp or Windows Media Player, instead of a row of names. Pictures are drawn in the background and kept, and hundreds of skins scroll smoothly. By @crmne.
• MilkDrop inside Windows Media Player skins. A skin's visualization area now shows MilkDrop, moving and scaling with the skin, and its next and previous buttons change the preset. It draws in its own process, so the player never waits for it, and goes back to the bars if it can't run. By @crmne.
• MilkDrop in your Winamp skin's frame. Opened from a classic skin's mini player, MilkDrop is a panel of the player, under the equalizer and the playlist, in the skin's own window frame as it was in Winamp 5, with a title bar, close button and resizing. It moves with the player on every desktop, Wayland included. By @crmne.
• MilkDrop behind your lyrics. A skin's MilkDrop window or visualization area can now go full screen, into the lyrics view, with MilkDrop behind the words instead of the cover's art. In the main window, V or a click on the empty space does the sa

Spotifast 0.16 brings Windows Media Player skins, alongside the Winamp ones. Artist pages gain monthly listeners and upcoming releases, Settings shows what your storage holds, and other devices' changes appear as Spotify pushes them. Soloist is also sturdier: it reconnects after a dropped connection, stops when you quit, and a leftover copy no longer blocks the next start.

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New

• Windows Media Player skins. Spotifast can now wear a Windows Media Player skin as well as a Winamp one. By @davorb. (#1030)
• See an artist's monthly listeners on their page. By @Espaye. (#1148)
• Upcoming releases on artist pages, with a countdown to the day they arrive. By @imafreakandyalldontknowit67. (#1129)
• Sort an album's songs by plays. By @DoWhileGeek. (#1111)
• See your storage sizes and clear cached audio in Settings. By @dyd4dsh7. (#1113)
• Copy a song's details from a new submenu in the song menu. By @spinfal. (#1133)
• Links in a playlist's description are clickable. By @Espaye. (#1150)
• Other devices' changes appear as Spotify pushes them, without waiting for the next check. By @Espaye. (#902)
• Clearer top bar for screen readers and keyboards, with focus rings on its controls. By @EnricoNSilva. (#1114)

Fixed

• Soloist reconnects after its connection drops, instead of giving up. By @caeksec. (#1160)
• A Soloist left running no longer blocks the next start. Spotifast stops it first. By @xpepper. (#1158)
• Cmd+Q stops Soloist on Mac, so music no longer keeps playing after you quit. By @crmne; thanks @xpepper. (#1157)
• Soloist's volume follows the slider while you drag, in the player bar and in skins. By @YelovSK and @crmne. (#1162, #1136)
• Windows Soloist visualizers keep their level as the volume falls, and keep working after pause and resume. By @YelovSK and @gyarisuta. (#1165, #1156, #1153)
• When Soloist stops unexpectedly, what it printed is kept in soloist-output.log, with your key removed, so the cause can be found. By @crmne.
• Soloist's EQ and visualizers work in the Flatpak. By @crmne; thanks @Leo-G20. (#1167)
• **Linux playback no longer dies when rtkit grants rea

Spotifast 0.15 adds Spotify Soloist, Spotify's own player for listening outside the Spotify app, with lossless support. Setup guides you through downloading it from Spotify, adding your personal Soloist key and pairing once. Spotifast keeps it updated, and the built-in player remains available. Soloist may avoid the "Spotify refused the audio key" problem with the built-in player.

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Windows installs now use the .msi only. If you are on 0.12.x or earlier, download and run it once to keep receiving updates. Portable ZIPs remain available.

New

• Listen through Spotify Soloist. New listeners and people updating are guided through setup, with a built-in-player option at every step. Soloist appears as This computer and renews its expiring builds automatically while inactive. Spotify Premium and your own Soloist key are required. Spotify currently supplies Soloist for Linux, Apple Silicon Macs and x64 Windows. Setup and platform details. By @crmne; thanks @krolebord and @mrcego. (#1050, #283)
• EQ and visualizers with Soloist on Linux and Mac. Linux uses PipeWire; macOS 14.2 or newer uses a private audio route after you allow System Audio Recording. Only Spotifast's player is captured, and no audio is saved. Spectrum, oscilloscope and MilkDrop follow the EQ and keep moving when you mute inside Spotifast. On Mac, Soloist stays at 100% and Spotifast controls the output; phone volume changes adjust that output, then the phone's indicator returns to 100%. By @crmne.
• Soloist visualizers on Windows 11. Spectrum, oscilloscope and MilkDrop follow Soloist's audio. Windows still plays directly through Soloist: audible EQ is unavailable, and lowering volume lowers the visualizers too. By @crmne.
• Spotify features stay available with Soloist. Settings → Account → Spotify access lets you authorize Made for you, listening activity and Spotify lyrics while keeping Soloist as your player. By @crmne.
• See an album's full release date on hover, or its year when that is all Spotify supplies. By @BerkeBat. (#1008)
• Signed Windows downloads. The executable and installer are signed as PlentyLabs UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG. Windows may still show SmartScreen while the publisher builds reputation. By @crmne. (#1062)

Soloist does not expose a delivered-format indicator or audio-quality preferences. Local files and full queue editing still use the built-in player. Older Macs and Windows versions without process capture retain ordinary Soloist playback where Spotify supports it. See Soloist's current limits.

Fixed

• Lyrics recover from LRCLIB overloads. Temporary errors are retried, search provides another lookup, and cached lyrics stay available during outages. Failed requests are no l

Spotifast 0.14.2 fixes signing in for the first time. Until now, Spotifast signed in through ncspot's Spotify app, and its developer has closed that app to other apps, so a first sign-in failed with "redirect_uri: Not matching configuration". Now you make your own free Spotify app, and the sign-in screen guides you through it. This release also plays local files at any sample rate, with their own covers and lyrics, asks Spotify for fewer audio keys, and fixes a crash in playlists with hidden songs.

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On Windows, pick the .msi. The setup program (-setup.exe) is still attached so that installs from 0.12.0 and earlier can update through it.

Changed

• Sign in with your own free Spotify app, guided on the sign-in screen. The screen shows each step: open Spotify's developer dashboard, create an app with the redirect URI it shows (with a Copy button) and Web API ticked, then paste the app's Client ID. Spotifast checks the Client ID with Spotify before the browser opens. Spotify requires Premium on the account that creates the app. If you are already signed in, nothing changes: Spotifast keeps working, and Settings offers the switch to your own app. Getting started has the steps. By @crmne; thanks @MrHunor and @Fabsss0505. (#1057, #1059)

New

• Local files play at any sample rate, including 48 kHz, hi-res and mono files, instead of only 44.1 kHz stereo. By @crmne; thanks @PeeblyWeeb. (#3)
• Queue a playlist's local files. Add to queue, Play next, a selection and a drop now queue them while this computer plays. By @crmne; thanks @paulwinches. (#1002)
• Local files show their own cover and lyrics, from the picture in the file and a .lrc file beside it or the lyrics in its tags. By @crmne; thanks @MaximoLongo. (#1001)
• A page for when something goes wrong. When something goes wrong explains "Spotify refused the audio key" and "Spotify is being slow" in plain words, with what helps. By @crmne.
• The Winamp D button steps through 1x too, so a skin can show pixel for pixel. By @crmne.

Fixed

• Fewer "Spotify refused the audio key" errors. Spotifast now asks Spotify for one audio key at a time, waits after a refusal before asking again, and fetches ahead only the next song's key. By @crmne; thanks @mrcego. (#283)
• A refused audio key is explained in a banner that says what happened, that a phone or another device still plays, and opens the device picker, instead of a red error. By @crmne; thanks @mrcego. (#283)
• When Spotify slows the shared app, a banner says so and offers to set up your own app, at most once a day. By @crmne.
• Repeat One turns into Repeat All when you change songs, as in Spotify's apps. Restarting the song keeps it. By @crmne; thanks @jorisw. (#1022)
• Scrolling to the end of a playlist with hidden songs no longer crashes Spotifast, and the right row plays. By @MaxRong; thanks @Alexandre-Froes. (#1046, #1041)
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