Note

We hit 1000 Stars, thanks for your continued support ♥️

I've never imagined that a personal project for my one use would become that large :)

Additionally v1.0 has been released, completed rewritten services and updated UI. stay tuned for new planned features ♥️

Youtube Music for Desktop (ytmdesktop2)

Beautiful Youtube Music desktop app with customizations for users and developers.

Features

Last.fm

Scrobble and update Now Playing while you listen.

Tray view

Compact now-playing popup from the system tray.

Lyrics

Timed lyrics in the player (Better Lyrics, Unison, LRCLIB).

Discord Rich Presence

Show the current track in Discord.

Themes

Bundled or custom SCSS/CSS for the YouTube Music UI.

OBS overlays

First-party now-playing browser sources. Enable API, open Settings -> OBS, copy URL into an OBS Browser Source (default port 13091).

http://127.0.0.1:13091/embed/now-playing

Shared links (ytmd://)

Open tracks, playlists, and channels in the app (ytmd:// or swap https:// on music.youtube.com URLs).

Stream Deck

1. Enable API + require authorization
2. Install the Stream Deck plugin
3. Authorize from a YTMDesktop2 action

More detail in apps/docs/content/docs/features.

Project setup

Monorepo (pnpm). App: apps/ytmdesktop2. Stream Deck: packages/streamdeck.

# gh required for github packages (Venipa/xosms)
gh auth refresh -s read:packages
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Inspiration

ytmdesktop and th-ch / Pear Desktop inspired a lot of my own work on this project: ideas, approaches, and the wider desktop YouTube Music space. Also Last.fm, Better Lyrics, and LRCLIB. Grateful they exist.

Contributors