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@Hantu-Raya Hantu-Raya released this 28 Sep 08:37
v0.1.32
bde2065

Nativune 0.1.32

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

  • Time-synced lyrics in the Lyrics tab. YouTube Music's Lyrics tab now shows lyrics that follow the song, highlighting each line as it is sung. This comes from Barebones Better Lyrics 2.4.1.2, a cut-down fork of Better Lyrics kept at Hantu-Raya/barebones-better-lyrics. It changes only the contents of the Lyrics tab, not the rest of YouTube Music. Open lyric settings… in Settings › Lyrics sets a timing offset and optional translation (off by default). The fork is GPL-3.0; its source is published beside this release as barebones-better-lyrics-2.4.1.2-source.zip. Nativune itself stays MIT.
    • Lyrics is on by default, including when you update from 0.1.31 or earlier. If you never saved a Lyrics setting, it is on. If you saved Off, it stays off.
    • Privacy: while Lyrics is on, Nativune sends the playing song's title, artist, album and length to api.betterlyrics.org and, if that has no lyrics, to lrclib.net. Both services see your IP address. Lyric lines are sent to Google Translate only if you turn translation on.
    • To turn it off: untick Settings › Lyrics. It takes effect immediately; Nativune reloads the Music page so no lyric requests continue.
  • Donate on Ko-fi. A new Donate on Ko-fi entry in the More menu, a button in Settings › About and a heart button at the top left of Compact open ko-fi.com/hanturaya in your browser.
  • Compact: Keep-on-top pin. A pin button at the top left of Compact keeps the window on top of others. It does the same as More › Keep window on top. In Standard and Wide layouts the pin and heart appear only when there is room for the title.
  • App volume changes while you drag. The app volume slider (full window and Compact) now changes the volume as you drag, not only when you let go. If the slider closes during a drag (for example when you switch to Compact), the volume goes back to where the drag started.
  • Narrow windows. When the full window is too narrow, toolbar buttons move into More (Forward first, then Update, Discord, Timer, Volume and Home) instead of overlapping the minimize, maximize and close buttons. The full window can no longer be made narrower than the buttons that stay.

Quick update

Setup is unchanged (version 1.0.2), so updating from 0.1.31 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: 657479bd8f2fb3f278e9135619f8190aeafc6afd2262fe5562ef8ca162d8feed.
  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 36397869959 from commit bde2065. 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 (now including the Compact pin and donate buttons) 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;
  • lyrics end-to-end runs on disposable signed-out profiles: on the final lyrics code the quick set (loading, timing, pause, seek, track change, settings kept, Lyrics off, turning Lyrics off while running, songs without lyrics, YouTube Music's own styles unchanged) passed; earlier full runs of the same 2.4.1.2 bundle also covered translation, a German UI, the lyric-host allowlist and a 20-song coverage set;
  • a UI Automation run of the toolbar at widths from 1000 down to the new 353 minimum, the Compact pin, and a real mouse drag of the volume slider (live change, release, track click, and rollback when switching to Compact mid-drag), reading the WebView's actual Windows audio-session volume.

Not tested: Lyrics being on by default after an update, a lyric settings reset after a future lyrics version change, signed-in or Premium playback, a real ad with ad blocking off, the in-app quick update to this version, Narrator and high contrast. The Ko-fi page opening in the browser was not observed.

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