ViMusic

A Jetpack Compose Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music

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Features

• Play any non-age-restricted song/video from YouTube Music
• Background playback
• Cache audio chunks for offline playback
• Search for songs, albums, artists videos and playlists
• Display songs lyrics
• Local playlist management
• Reorder songs in playlist or queue
• Light/Dark theme
• Open YouTube/YouTube Music links (watch, playlist)
• ...

TODO

• Improve UI/UX (help needed)
• Download songs (not sure about this)
• Play local songs (not sure about this, too)
• Translation

Installation

After installing, I recommend executing the following ADB command to neutralize some animation lags you may experience in cold starts:

adb shell cmd package compile -r bg-dexopt it.vfsfitvnm.vimusic

Known problems

The application is using androidx.media3, which is unstable. Expect random crashes or buggy notification behaviours. Hopefully, they will be fixed within the next alpha release.

Contributions

There's a huge room for improvements! Please open an issue to report bugs, discuss ideas and so on.

Similar projects, inspirations and acknowledgments

• Beatbump: Alternative YouTube Music frontend built with Svelte/SvelteKit.
• music: A material design music player with music from YouTube/YouTube Music.
• YouTube-Internal-Clients: A python script that discovers hidden YouTube API clients. Just a research project.
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