{"id":20794,"date":"2026-10-08T12:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20794"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:13:17","slug":"spotifast-lets-you-enjoy-spotify-tracks-while-lowering-ram-usage-by-5x-or-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20794","title":{"rendered":"Spotifast lets you enjoy Spotify tracks while lowering RAM usage by 5x or more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0 0 1em; padding:0.6em 0.9em; border:1px solid #d0d7de; border-radius:6px; background:#f6f8fa; color:#444; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Bruno Ferreira  &bull; October 8, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>It&#8217;s a reasonable assessment that everyone and their dog is tired of Electron-based desktop apps that pack a full web browser and waste gobs of RAM. Spotify lovers now have a reprieve from the memory blues in the form of the Spotifast client.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spotifast is an OS-native application written in Rust, with an emphasis on lowering memory consumption and CPU utilization.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Bruno Ferreira  &bull; October 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/software\/applications\/spotifast-lets-you-enjoy-spotify-tracks-while-lowering-ram-usage-by-5x-or-more-open-source-app-cuts-ram-usage-down-to-150-mb-and-brings-back-classic-winamp-skins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Tom&#8217;s Hardware &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story. Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull; Bruno Ferreira &bull; October 8, 2026 It&#8217;s a reasonable assessment that everyone and their dog is tired of Electron-based desktop apps that pack a full web browser and waste gobs of RAM. Spotify lovers now have<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20794\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}