# Everyday Use ## Playing music Play buttons are wherever you expect them: on playlist, album, artist, and podcast pages, on cards when you hover them, and on every row. Double-click a row to play from that song within its playlist or album. The shuffle button next to a page's play button starts the whole thing shuffled. The player bar at the bottom always shows what is playing, on this computer *or* on any other device. Click the title to open its album, the artist to open the artist, the heart to save it. ## Your Library The sidebar is your library: filter it by Playlists, Albums, Artists, or Podcasts with the chips, or search it with the magnifier. Liked Songs is pinned on top. The current page is highlighted; the playlist that is playing carries a small speaker. **Playlists you own** are fully editable: create one with the **+** button, add songs from any row's menu, remove and reorder from the playlist page, and rename or delete from its context menu. Playlists you follow can be followed and unfollowed. ## Search Ctrl+F (or `/`) focuses search from anywhere. Results come grouped (a top result, songs, artists, albums, playlists, podcasts, episodes) and the chips narrow to one kind. Your recent searches wait on the empty search page. ## Devices and the queue The speaker icon in the player bar lists every Spotify Connect device on your account. Click one and the music moves there mid-song; the same controls keep working. "Playing on …" in the top bar reminds you when sound is coming out of something across the room. The queue lives behind the list icon, as a side panel or a full page. Add anything to it from a row's context menu. ### Speakers Spotify has not noticed yet A receiver running librespot or spotifyd, and some hardware speakers, only appear in Spotify's own device list once an account has been handed to them. Until then the Web API cannot see them at all, however plainly they show up in the official client. Fastpotify looks for those on your local network whenever you open the device picker, and lists them under the devices Spotify already knows about, marked *on your network*. Choose one and Fastpotify hands it your account over the local network, encrypted so that only that receiver can read it. A moment later it joins Spotify Connect properly and playback moves there, and from then on it is an ordinary device to every Spotify client you own. This uses the credential stored for playing on this computer, so enable playback here first (see [Getting Started](/getting-started/)). Receivers that ask for a different kind of login are not connected this way yet. ## The tray Closing the window keeps the music playing: Fastpotify stays in the system tray with play, pause, skip, and quit in its menu, and clicking the icon brings the window back. On Linux it is a standard status-notifier item, so it works in any bar that shows tray icons, and MPRIS keeps `playerctl`, media keys, and your desktop's players widget working the whole time. ## One window, one instance Starting Fastpotify while it is already running does not open a second copy. The launch hands the request to the instance already there, which brings its window forward, and then gets out of the way. Two copies would mean two Spotify Connect devices with the same name and two players arguing over your media keys, so there is only ever one. ## Keyboard shortcuts | Shortcut | What it does | | --- | --- | | `Space` | Play or pause | | `Ctrl+←` / `Ctrl+→` | Previous or next | | `Shift+←` / `Shift+→` | Seek 10 seconds | | `Ctrl+↑` / `Ctrl+↓` | Volume | | `M` | Mute | | `S` / `R` | Shuffle / cycle repeat | | `Q` | Queue panel | | `Ctrl+F` or `/` | Search | | `Alt+←` / `Alt+→` | Back or forward | | `Ctrl+H` / `Ctrl+L` | Home / Liked Songs | | `Ctrl+Shift+A` / `Ctrl+Shift+B` | Playing artist / album | | `Ctrl+,` | Settings | | `Ctrl+/` | All shortcuts | | `Ctrl+Q` | Quit | On macOS, `Cmd` replaces `Ctrl`. ## Settings Everything lives in Settings (Ctrl+,): the Connect device name, audio quality up to 320 kbps, volume normalisation, autoplay, gapless playback, the audio backend on Linux, the audio cache size, themes, album-art tinting, and the close-to-tray behaviour. Playback settings apply with one button that restarts the local player; nothing else needs a restart.

Playing music

Play buttons are wherever you expect them: on playlist, album, artist, and podcast pages, on cards when you hover them, and on every row. Double-click a row to play from that song within its playlist or album. The shuffle button next to a page’s play button starts the whole thing shuffled.

The player bar at the bottom always shows what is playing, on this computer or on any other device. Click the title to open its album, the artist to open the artist, the heart to save it.

Your Library

The sidebar is your library: filter it by Playlists, Albums, Artists, or Podcasts with the chips, or search it with the magnifier. Liked Songs is pinned on top. The current page is highlighted; the playlist that is playing carries a small speaker.

Playlists you own are fully editable: create one with the + button, add songs from any row’s menu, remove and reorder from the playlist page, and rename or delete from its context menu. Playlists you follow can be followed and unfollowed.

Search

Ctrl+F (or /) focuses search from anywhere. Results come grouped (a top result, songs, artists, albums, playlists, podcasts, episodes) and the chips narrow to one kind. Your recent searches wait on the empty search page.

Devices and the queue

The speaker icon in the player bar lists every Spotify Connect device on your account. Click one and the music moves there mid-song; the same controls keep working. “Playing on …” in the top bar reminds you when sound is coming out of something across the room.

The queue lives behind the list icon, as a side panel or a full page. Add anything to it from a row’s context menu.

Speakers Spotify has not noticed yet

A receiver running librespot or spotifyd, and some hardware speakers, only appear in Spotify’s own device list once an account has been handed to them. Until then the Web API cannot see them at all, however plainly they show up in the official client.

Fastpotify looks for those on your local network whenever you open the device picker, and lists them under the devices Spotify already knows about, marked on your network. Choose one and Fastpotify hands it your account over the local network, encrypted so that only that receiver can read it. A moment later it joins Spotify Connect properly and playback moves there, and from then on it is an ordinary device to every Spotify client you own.

This uses the credential stored for playing on this computer, so enable playback here first (see Getting Started). Receivers that ask for a different kind of login are not connected this way yet.

The tray

Closing the window keeps the music playing: Fastpotify stays in the system tray with play, pause, skip, and quit in its menu, and clicking the icon brings the window back. On Linux it is a standard status-notifier item, so it works in any bar that shows tray icons, and MPRIS keeps playerctl, media keys, and your desktop’s players widget working the whole time.

One window, one instance

Starting Fastpotify while it is already running does not open a second copy. The launch hands the request to the instance already there, which brings its window forward, and then gets out of the way. Two copies would mean two Spotify Connect devices with the same name and two players arguing over your media keys, so there is only ever one.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	What it does
Space	Play or pause
Ctrl+← / Ctrl+→	Previous or next
Shift+← / Shift+→	Seek 10 seconds
Ctrl+↑ / Ctrl+↓	Volume
M	Mute
S / R	Shuffle / cycle repeat
Q	Queue panel
Ctrl+F or /	Search
Alt+← / Alt+→	Back or forward
Ctrl+H / Ctrl+L	Home / Liked Songs
Ctrl+Shift+A / Ctrl+Shift+B	Playing artist / album
Ctrl+,	Settings
Ctrl+/	All shortcuts
Ctrl+Q	Quit

On macOS, Cmd replaces Ctrl.

Settings

Everything lives in Settings (Ctrl+,): the Connect device name, audio quality up to 320 kbps, volume normalisation, autoplay, gapless playback, the audio backend on Linux, the audio cache size, themes, album-art tinting, and the close-to-tray behaviour. Playback settings apply with one button that restarts the local player; nothing else needs a restart.