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@Hantu-Raya Hantu-Raya released this 26 Sep 15:00
v0.1.28
a5f8775

Nativune 0.1.28

Nativune is an unofficial, native Windows desktop app for YouTube Music. It shows the official YouTube Music website in its own window and adds native controls such as a Compact mini player, tray and taskbar buttons. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google or YouTube, and it does not download media or use a private playback API. It blocks ads only if you turn that on yourself (off by default).

Unsigned build. The installer is not yet Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show Unknown Publisher or a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warning. Download only from this page and check the SHA-256 before running it.

What's new

  • Less memory while hidden. About 5 seconds after you minimize Nativune or hide it to the tray, it now also releases unused memory from the WebView2 browser and graphics processes. Page and audio processes are left alone, so playback isn't interrupted.
    • Benchmark on one PC: the median private working set while hidden dropped from 148 MiB to 124 MiB.
    • CPU, startup time and the time to show the window again (about 51 ms) did not change beyond noise.

Quick update

Setup is unchanged (version 1.0.2), so updating from 0.1.27 is a quick update: only the changed app files are downloaded.

Install

  1. Download Nativune-Setup.exe and SHA256SUMS.txt from this release.
  2. In PowerShell run Get-FileHash .\Nativune-Setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256 and compare it with SHA256SUMS.txt. Expected: cd055717b4721758a938dc195abe7de748aa591c084075cf36aea4019e9d5b49.
  3. Run Setup. It checks for the Microsoft .NET 10 Runtime, Windows App SDK, VC++ runtime and WebView2, and asks before installing any that are missing. Default location: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Nativune. Upgrades keep your profile and settings.

If you already have Nativune 0.1.10 or later, the update button in the toolbar offers this version.

Build and known limits

Built by CI run 36250162279 from commit a5f8775; the files here are that run's output, checked again after download. Windows x64 only. Setup version 1.0.2.

Before release, these passed:

  • the app self-check and native-fixture;
  • the release build's check that test-only and benchmark code is removed;
  • the release script's check of the manifest, ZIP contents, checksums and quick-update data.

The memory numbers come from short benchmark runs (under a minute per phase) on one PC, signed out. Long sessions were not measured.

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