I once gave my mother one of these and its as dark as in the picture… But later she gave me some offshoots and it’s not as dark anymore. So mileage may vary how they turn out.

I’m in no way an expert… But maybe it’s a burgundy rubber tree (ficus elastica)?

Spotifyd is a Spotify daemon, not an user application. It makes perfect sense to run as a service. Though personally I would run it as a user service instead of a system service.