Thank you so much, I’ll take that into consideration, I’m prepared to find ways when the official youtube music changes their ways.
As long as they don’t close their servers for us 😅
Same as my previous answer, the code can be compiled after installing the necessary dependencies and ran locally without the need of trusting my releases. But as a bonus, music can be played and enjoyed without signing in. 👍
The source code is open and on Github, and there is also a guide to compiling and running the code locally, if not trusted. I can see that being a paint point though.
But the option of listening to music without signing-in is available. 👍
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.
My music setup was a pinned browser tab for years. It worked, technically. It also ate RAM doing nothing, my media keys only worked when that tab happened to be focused, and I killed the music at least once a week by closing the wrong window. There’s no official YouTube Music desktop app on Linux, and most of what exists is the same web player in an Electron shell.
So I built my own. It’s called Limusic. Rust and Tauri, no bundled Chromium, audio goes through libmpv.
You sign in with your actual YouTube Music account, so your playlists, likes and subscriptions are just there, and liking a song or adding it to a playlist syncs back like you’d expect.
The part I actually care about is that it’s not bare bones:
Free and open source, GPL. AppImage (self updating) or an rpm for Fedora, which is what I daily drive. No Flatpak or AUR yet, both are on the list. There’s a Windows build too, and no macOS one yet.
Would really love for people to try it, and I’d genuinely like to hear what everyone thinks. ❤️
Site: https://simohypers.github.io/limusic/ Downloads: https://github.com/SimoHypers/limusic/releases/latest
Not affiliated with Google or YouTube, just a thing I made because I wanted it
Thank you very much, I’m glad other can appreciate aswell. ❤️