Fastpotify

“it gets the job done, which is mainly managing the hundreds of podcast episodes I am bookmarking”

“the slim diet trimmed down and performance gains were wrothy”

“Everything else feels very snappy and fun”

“This looks amazing but unfortunately this project is doing free work for Spotify”

“the problem with such immediate mode GUI apps is that they constantly burn 1-2% of CPU when the app is idle”

“I just built and ran release build of fastpotify and its also hovering in 500s”

“it works pretty well and is noticeably faster than the official app”

“Took a very long time to get it to sign in and play on my local machine”

“I would welcome a mobile counterpart to this, if it is even possible.”

“Nice to see fastpotify framed this way — I'd been circling the same idea without the right words.”

“this one with its Winamp mode is what I was looking for”

“200 MB memory usage is a lot without providing source code as a proof.”

“This is a significant improvement and a cool project!”

“My worry with this, like all Spotify clients really, is its dependance on Spotify's”

“I can't get over my doubts of LLM code quality”

“I never experienced any bugs or slowness.”

“The classic skins are bringing me back.”

“It's still open source! Just like in the pre-AI era they are welcome to submit a PR and improve it in the way they like it.”

“It's working way better than original client.”

“It's mostly fine, and I've been using it nearly every day for years.”

“Doesn't play but looks just like the original.”

“Fastpotify uses ~500mb playing the same song while being substantially slower when navigating music”

“Should add a full page click through slop warning to each page on the site.”

“Looks good, but ran into loading spinners fairly quickly, large playlists kill this”

“That's an improvement for sure, but 280MB also seems like a lot.”

“Love the Winamp feature - but more so that it comes with milkdrop! That is next level.”

“I really appreciate that their LLM has taken the time to clone the UI 1:1”

“The code is worse, somehow. Endless paragraphs of comments that say nothing”

“the documentation would be 90% shorter but also 200% more informative per character used”

“keep everything as fast and seamless as possible”

“Not running code from someone who has so little self awareness that they publish documentation like this tbh.”

“Fastpotify sits at zero CPU when idle, asks for a few frames a second while a track plays”

“If it can transform into Winamp I don't care if the code is LLM generated”

“This codebase seems to have a lot of good examples”

“The UI feels a lot less sluggish than the official client”

“The docs also smell of LLM output, for example describing the app as native despite using egui/wgpu.”

“I feel like if you can't be bothered to write the code, at least document it yourself”

“text was a blurry mess but it seems like they've mostly fixed it now”

“Winamp feature is great but so random”

“LLMs are acting as a positive multiplier for useful tools; this very item being one.”