I own a base Macbook Air M3 with a crisp 8 gigs of RAM which literally burns away in a matter of seconds when I fire up my development environment with VS Code , Spotify and just a few browser tabs. I had always known this was because of Electron, and even replaced VS Code with Zed , a native code editor built in Rust, and have migrated from different Electron/Chromium apps to native ones built with SwiftUI, Go or Flutter . but i was never able to find a good enough native music player alternative to replace the official Spotify Desktop app. I already explored projects like Spotube and more - these worked fine but lacked some key features like Spotify Jam and Spotify Connect integration which connects all your logged in devices with Spotify and let's you control your music playback from any device. On top of that, I used to use Spicetify with Spicy Lyrics to customise my Electron based Spotify client and this is exactly where the native apps fell short for me.…