The real player
It wraps music.youtube.com itself, so the interface always matches the current web version and your account works exactly as it does in a browser.
What it adds
Keys that work anywhere
Media keys and global shortcuts, so you can skip a track without leaving whatever you were doing.
Discord rich presence
Shows what you’re listening to, with artwork, a progress bar and a button that opens the track for anyone who clicks it.
Last.fm scrobbling
Scrobbles as you listen, with a configurable threshold for how much of a track counts as a play.
Custom CSS
Point it at a stylesheet and it reloads live while you edit, so you can restyle the player as far as you like.
Remote control API
A local REST and WebSocket API on port 9863 that other apps can drive after a one-time authorization.
Listen Along
Share what you’re playing and your friends hear the same track, in the same place, at the same time. Skip a song and everyone follows.
Start a room and share the link, or let people join straight from the button on your Discord status. Anyone in a room can be handed the controls, so it doesn’t have to be your queue all evening.
No app on their side? The room link plays in the browser too: your audio streams live to the room page, artwork and all, so nobody is left out.
It sends almost nothing to do it. Rather than streaming your position, the app publishes a timestamp for where the track started, and everyone else works out the rest locally. Whole songs pass without a single message.
Getting it
Install
Grab the installer for your platform from the releases page. Windows builds update themselves.
Moving over
Settings and your sign-in from an existing YouTube Music Desktop App installation are picked up on first launch.
Something broken?
Open an issue on GitHub. Nightly builds ship with debug logging on, which makes reports far easier to act on.