diff --git a/src/app/spotify/spotify-content.tsx b/src/app/spotify/spotify-content.tsx
index 8a66ba6..173cd0c 100644
--- a/src/app/spotify/spotify-content.tsx
+++ b/src/app/spotify/spotify-content.tsx
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ export function SpotifyContent(): React.ReactElement {
 
           <NowPlaying status={status} />
           <Player status={status} />
+          <Played status={status} />
         </>
       ) : null}
     </div>
@@ -191,9 +192,36 @@ function formatMs(ms: number | null): string {
   return `${m}:${s.toString().padStart(2, '0')}`;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Where the track is now, between status polls.
+ *
+ * librespot reports a position only on an event (play, pause, seek), and the
+ * page polls every few seconds; a clock that only moved then would stutter.
+ * While playing, the position is the last reported one plus the time since it
+ * was reported, capped at the track length. Paused, it is what was reported.
+ */
+function useTrackPosition(status: SpotifyStatus): number | null {
+  const np = status.nowPlaying;
+  const [now, setNow] = useState(() => Date.now());
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (status.state !== 'playing') return;
+    const id = setInterval(() => setNow(Date.now()), 500);
+    return () => clearInterval(id);
+  }, [status.state]);
+  if (!np || np.positionMs === null) return null;
+  if (status.state !== 'playing') return np.positionMs;
+  const reportedAt = Date.parse(np.updatedAt);
+  const elapsed = Number.isFinite(reportedAt) ? Math.max(0, now - reportedAt) : 0;
+  const pos = np.positionMs + elapsed;
+  return np.durationMs ? Math.min(pos, np.durationMs) : pos;
+}
+
 function NowPlaying({ status }: { status: SpotifyStatus }): React.ReactElement | null {
   const np = status.nowPlaying;
+  const position = useTrackPosition(status);
   if (!np || !np.name) return null;
+  const pct =
+    np.durationMs && position !== null ? Math.min(100, (position / np.durationMs) * 100) : null;
   return (
     <section className="rounded-lg border border-border-default bg-bg-secondary p-4">
       <p className="text-xs uppercase tracking-wide text-text-muted">
@@ -205,14 +233,69 @@ function NowPlaying({ status }: { status: SpotifyStatus }): React.ReactElement |
         {np.album ? ` · ${np.album}` : ''}
       </p>
       {np.durationMs ? (
-        <p className="mt-1 text-xs text-text-muted">
-          {formatMs(np.positionMs)} / {formatMs(np.durationMs)}
-        </p>
+        <div className="mt-2">
+          <div
+            className="h-1 w-full overflow-hidden rounded bg-bg-tertiary"
+            role="progressbar"
+            aria-valuemin={0}
+            aria-valuemax={np.durationMs}
+            aria-valuenow={position ?? 0}
+            aria-label="Track progress"
+          >
+            <div className="h-full bg-accent-primary" style={{ width: `${pct ?? 0}%` }} />
+          </div>
+          <p className="mt-1 flex justify-between text-xs text-text-muted">
+            <span>{formatMs(position)}</span>
+            <span>{formatMs(np.durationMs)}</span>
+          </p>
+        </div>
       ) : null}
     </section>
   );
 }
 
+/**
+ * What the device has played this session, newest first, the current track on
+ * top. Spotify does not tell a Connect device what is coming next -- the queue
+ * lives in the app that is casting -- so this is the playlist we can show: the
+ * one that has already happened.
+ */
+function Played({ status }: { status: SpotifyStatus }): React.ReactElement | null {
+  const history = status.history ?? [];
+  if (history.length === 0) return null;
+  const currentId = status.nowPlaying?.trackId ?? null;
+  return (
+    <section className="rounded-lg border border-border-default bg-bg-secondary p-4">
+      <p className="text-xs uppercase tracking-wide text-text-muted">Played on this device</p>
+      <ol className="mt-2 divide-y divide-border-default">
+        {history.map((t, i) => {
+          const current = currentId !== null && t.trackId === currentId && i === 0;
+          return (
+            <li
+              key={`${t.trackId ?? t.name ?? 'track'}-${t.startedAt}`}
+              className={`flex items-center justify-between gap-3 py-2 text-sm ${
+                current ? 'text-text-primary' : 'text-text-secondary'
+              }`}
+            >
+              <span className="min-w-0">
+                <span className={`block truncate ${current ? 'font-medium' : ''}`}>
+                  {current ? '▶ ' : ''}
+                  {t.name ?? 'Unknown track'}
+                </span>
+                <span className="block truncate text-xs text-text-muted">
+                  {t.artists.join(', ')}
+                  {t.album ? ` · ${t.album}` : ''}
+                </span>
+              </span>
+              <span className="shrink-0 text-xs text-text-muted">{formatMs(t.durationMs)}</span>
+            </li>
+          );
+        })}
+      </ol>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
 function Player({ status }: { status: SpotifyStatus }): React.ReactElement {
   const audioRef = useRef<HTMLAudioElement | null>(null);
   const [listening, setListening] = useState(false);
diff --git a/src/lib/spotify/librespot.test.ts b/src/lib/spotify/librespot.test.ts
index 3f304e8..78c1ada 100644
--- a/src/lib/spotify/librespot.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/spotify/librespot.test.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ describe('buildFfmpegCommand', () => {
     const cmd = buildFfmpegCommand('/state/hls');
     expect(cmd.startsWith('ffmpeg ')).toBe(true);
     expect(cmd).toContain('-f s16le -ar 44100 -ac 2 -i pipe:0');
+    // The clock: without it the pipe is drained at full speed, librespot sees
+    // the track end in seconds, and Spotify skips to the next song.
+    expect(cmd).toContain(' -re -f s16le');
+    expect(cmd.indexOf('-re')).toBeLessThan(cmd.indexOf('-i pipe:0'));
     expect(cmd).toContain('-c:a aac');
     expect(cmd).toContain('append_list');
     expect(cmd).toContain('omit_endlist');
@@ -173,6 +177,31 @@ describe('onevent hook', () => {
     expect(next.positionMs).toBe(0);
   });
 
+  it('keeps a played list, newest first, one entry per run of the same track', () => {
+    fire({ PLAYER_EVENT: 'track_changed', TRACK_ID: 'a', NAME: 'First', ARTISTS: 'X', DURATION_MS: '1000' });
+    fire({ PLAYER_EVENT: 'playing', TRACK_ID: 'a', POSITION_MS: '10' });
+    fire({ PLAYER_EVENT: 'track_changed', TRACK_ID: 'b', NAME: 'Second', ARTISTS: 'Y', DURATION_MS: '2000' });
+    // The same track reported again (a seek back, a replay) is not a new row.
+    const after = fire({ PLAYER_EVENT: 'track_changed', TRACK_ID: 'b', NAME: 'Second', ARTISTS: 'Y' });
+    const history = after.history as Array<Record<string, unknown>>;
+    expect(history.map((t) => t.name)).toEqual(['Second', 'First']);
+    expect(history[1].durationMs).toBe(1000);
+    expect(typeof history[0].startedAt).toBe('string');
+    // Playback events leave the list alone.
+    const later = fire({ PLAYER_EVENT: 'paused', TRACK_ID: 'b', POSITION_MS: '500' });
+    expect((later.history as unknown[]).length).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  it('caps the played list', () => {
+    for (let i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
+      fire({ PLAYER_EVENT: 'track_changed', TRACK_ID: `t${i}`, NAME: `Track ${i}`, ARTISTS: 'Z' });
+    }
+    const last = fire({ PLAYER_EVENT: 'playing', TRACK_ID: 't59', POSITION_MS: '1' });
+    const history = last.history as Array<Record<string, unknown>>;
+    expect(history.length).toBe(50);
+    expect(history[0].name).toBe('Track 59');
+  });
+
   it('does nothing without a target file', () => {
     execFileSync(process.execPath, [script], { env: { ...process.env, SPOTIFY_EVENT_FILE: '', PLAYER_EVENT: 'playing' } });
     expect(() => readFileSync(file)).toThrow();
diff --git a/src/lib/spotify/librespot.ts b/src/lib/spotify/librespot.ts
index b7e1d6e..584c575 100644
--- a/src/lib/spotify/librespot.ts
+++ b/src/lib/spotify/librespot.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,18 @@ export interface SpotifyPairing {
   code: string;
 }
 
+/** One track the device has played, as the `--onevent` hook saw it. */
+export interface SpotifyTrack {
+  trackId: string | null;
+  uri: string | null;
+  name: string | null;
+  artists: string[];
+  album: string | null;
+  durationMs: number | null;
+  /** When playback of it started, ISO. */
+  startedAt: string;
+}
+
 export interface SpotifyNowPlaying {
   event: string;
   trackId: string | null;
@@ -58,11 +70,20 @@ export interface SpotifyNowPlaying {
   updatedAt: string;
 }
 
+/** How many played tracks the hook keeps. A listening session, not a library. */
+export const HISTORY_LIMIT = 50;
+
 export interface SpotifyPlayerStatus {
   state: SpotifyPlayerState;
   deviceName: string;
   pairing: SpotifyPairing | null;
   nowPlaying: SpotifyNowPlaying | null;
+  /**
+   * What the device has played this run, newest first. Spotify's queue is not
+   * available without a developer app, so this is the playlist we can show: the
+   * one that has already happened.
+   */
+  history: SpotifyTrack[];
   /** True once ffmpeg has written a playlist, i.e. there is something to play. */
   hasStream: boolean;
   error: string | null;
@@ -103,6 +124,14 @@ export function shellQuote(arg: string): string {
  * The ffmpeg invocation librespot runs each time the sink opens. Reads raw
  * S16LE PCM on stdin and keeps a short rolling HLS window.
  *
+ * `-re` is the clock. librespot's subprocess backend has none of its own: it
+ * decodes and writes as fast as the pipe accepts, and a sound card is what
+ * normally pushes back. Without pacing, ffmpeg drained a three-minute song in a
+ * few seconds, librespot reported the track finished, and Spotify moved to the
+ * next one -- the listener heard a few seconds of each. With `-re` ffmpeg reads
+ * at the sample rate, the pipe fills, librespot's write blocks, and a song takes
+ * as long as a song takes.
+ *
  * `append_list` continues the segment numbering across sink restarts so a
  * paused-then-resumed stream does not reset the media sequence under hls.js;
  * `omit_endlist` keeps the playlist live when ffmpeg exits on pause;
@@ -115,6 +144,7 @@ export function buildFfmpegCommand(hlsDir: string, ffmpegBinary = 'ffmpeg'): str
     '-hide_banner',
     '-loglevel', 'error',
     '-nostdin',
+    '-re',
     '-f', 's16le',
     '-ar', '44100',
     '-ac', '2',
@@ -180,7 +210,8 @@ const e = process.env;
 const ev = e.PLAYER_EVENT || '';
 let prev = {};
 try { prev = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8')); } catch {}
-const next = Object.assign({}, prev, { event: ev, updatedAt: new Date().toISOString() });
+const now = new Date().toISOString();
+const next = Object.assign({}, prev, { event: ev, updatedAt: now });
 if (ev === 'track_changed') {
   next.trackId = e.TRACK_ID || null;
   next.uri = e.URI || null;
@@ -189,6 +220,14 @@ if (ev === 'track_changed') {
   next.album = e.ALBUM || null;
   next.durationMs = e.DURATION_MS ? Number(e.DURATION_MS) : null;
   next.positionMs = 0;
+  // The played list, newest first. A repeat of the same track back to back is
+  // one entry, not two; a limit keeps the file a session and not a library.
+  const history = Array.isArray(prev.history) ? prev.history : [];
+  const entry = { trackId: next.trackId, uri: next.uri, name: next.name, artists: next.artists, album: next.album, durationMs: next.durationMs, startedAt: now };
+  if (!(history[0] && history[0].trackId && history[0].trackId === entry.trackId)) {
+    history.unshift(entry);
+  }
+  next.history = history.slice(0, ${HISTORY_LIMIT});
 } else if (ev === 'playing' || ev === 'paused' || ev === 'seeked' || ev === 'position_correction') {
   if (e.POSITION_MS) next.positionMs = Number(e.POSITION_MS);
   if (e.TRACK_ID) next.trackId = e.TRACK_ID;
@@ -503,8 +542,31 @@ class LibrespotPlayer {
     }
   }
 
+  /** The played list from the events file, newest first; empty when there is none. */
+  readHistory(): SpotifyTrack[] {
+    try {
+      const raw = JSON.parse(readFileSync(this.eventFile, 'utf8')) as { history?: unknown };
+      if (!Array.isArray(raw.history)) return [];
+      return raw.history
+        .filter((t): t is Record<string, unknown> => typeof t === 'object' && t !== null)
+        .map((t) => ({
+          trackId: typeof t.trackId === 'string' ? t.trackId : null,
+          uri: typeof t.uri === 'string' ? t.uri : null,
+          name: typeof t.name === 'string' ? t.name : null,
+          artists: Array.isArray(t.artists) ? t.artists.filter((a): a is string => typeof a === 'string') : [],
+          album: typeof t.album === 'string' ? t.album : null,
+          durationMs: typeof t.durationMs === 'number' ? t.durationMs : null,
+          startedAt: typeof t.startedAt === 'string' ? t.startedAt : '',
+        }))
+        .slice(0, HISTORY_LIMIT);
+    } catch {
+      return [];
+    }
+  }
+
   status(): SpotifyPlayerStatus {
     const nowPlaying = this.readNowPlaying();
+    const history = this.readHistory();
     const hasStream = existsSync(join(this.hlsDir, 'index.m3u8'));
     let state: SpotifyPlayerState;
     if (!this.running) {
@@ -519,6 +581,7 @@ class LibrespotPlayer {
       deviceName: this.deviceName,
       pairing: state === 'pairing' && this.pairing?.url && this.pairing.code ? this.pairing : null,
       nowPlaying: state === 'playing' || state === 'paused' ? nowPlaying : null,
+      history,
       hasStream,
       error: this.lastError,
     };
@@ -559,6 +622,7 @@ export class SpotifyPlayerManager {
         deviceName: defaultDeviceName(),
         pairing: null,
         nowPlaying: null,
+        history: [],
         hasStream: false,
         error: null,
       };