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+
 ncurses Spotify client written in Rust using librespot. It is heavily inspired
 by ncurses MPD clients, such as ncmpc.  My motivation was to provide a simple
 and resource friendly alternative to the official client as well as to support
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 [![Search](/screenshots/screenshot-thumb.png?raw=true)](/screenshots/screenshot.png?raw=true)
 
+## Resource footprint comparison
+
+Measured using `ps_mem` on Linux during playback:
+
+| Client | Private Memory | Shared Memory | Total |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| ncspot | 22.1 MiB | 24.1 MiB | 46.2 MiB |
+| Spotify | 407.3 MiB | 592.7 MiB | 1000.0 MiB |
+
 ## Requirements
 
 * Rust
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 ## Usage
 
-* Install the latest release using `cargo install ncspot`
-* Build using `cargo build --release`
+* Install the latest ncspot release using `cargo install ncspot`
+  * or build it yourself using `cargo build --release`
+  * both approaches require a working [Rust installation](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install)
 * For debugging, pass a debug log filename, e.g. `ncspot -d debug.log`
 
 ## Audio backends