Features

Core capabilities

• Native desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux — not a wrapped tab you lose when the browser restarts
• Ad blocking on by default, covering audio ads, video ads and tracking requests
• Local downloads in MP3, Opus, M4A, WAV or FLAC with tags and cover art
• Synced lyrics with line-by-line highlighting, plus a Genius fallback
• Global media keys and hotkeys, including MPRIS on Linux and taskbar controls on Windows
• Audio processing: equaliser, compressor, crossfade and a saner volume curve
• Integrations with Discord, Last.fm, ListenBrainz, OBS, Lumia Stream and a local HTTP API
• MIT licensed and open source — auditable, forkable, free forever

Plugins by category

Ads & privacy

• Ad Blocker — Block all ads and tracking out of the box
• Ad Speedup — If an ad plays it mutes the audio and sets playback speed to 16x
• No Google Login — Remove Google login buttons and links from the interface
• Auth Proxy Adapter — Support for the use of authentication proxy services

Library & lyrics

• Downloader — Downloads MP3 / source audio directly from the interface
• Synced Lyrics — Provides synced lyrics to songs, using providers like LRClib
• Lyrics Genius — Adds lyrics support for most songs
• Album Actions — Adds Undislike, Dislike, Like, and Unlike buttons to apply this to all songs in a playlist or album

Integrations

• Discord Rich Presence — Show your friends what you listen to with Rich Presence
• Music Together — Share a playlist with others. When the host plays a song, everyone else will hear the same song
• Scrobbler — Add scrobbling support (e.g. Last.fm, ListenBrainz)
• API Server — Adds an API server to control the player
• Tuna OBS — Integration with OBS’s Tuna plugin
• Lumia Stream — Adds Lumia Stream support
• Amuse — Adds YouTube Music support for the Amuse now playing widget by 6K Labs

Playback control

• SponsorBlock — Automatically skips non-music parts like intro/outro or parts of music videos where the song isn’t playing
• Playback Speed — Listen fast, listen slow! Adds a slider that controls song speed
• Skip Silences — Automatically skip silence sections in songs
• Skip Disliked Songs — Skips disliked songs
• Disable Autoplay — Makes songs start in "paused" mode
• Bypass Age Restrictions — Bypass YouTube’s age verification

Audio quality

• Equalizer — Adds an equalizer to the player
• Crossfade — Crossfade between songs
• Precise Volume — Control the volume precisely using mousewheel/hotkeys, with a custom HUD and customizable volume steps
• Exponential Volume — Makes the volume slider exponential so it is easier to select lower volumes
• Audio Compressor — Apply compression to audio (lowers the volume of the loudest parts and raises the softest parts)

Look & feel

• Visualizer — Adds a visualizer to the player
• Picture-in-picture — Allows to switch the app to picture-in-picture mode
• Ambient Mode — Applies a lighting effect by casting gentle colors from the video, into your screen’s background
• Album Color Theme — Applies a dynamic theme and visual effects based on the album color palette
• In-App Menu — Gives menu bars a fancy, dark or album-color look
• Compact Sidebar — Always set the sidebar in compact mode
• Blur Navigation Bar — Makes the navigation bar transparent and blurry
• Unobtrusive Player — Prevents the player from popping up when playing a song

System & utility

• Shortcuts (& MPRIS) — Global hotkeys for playback, media key handling, Ctrl/CMD + F search, Linux MPRIS support and custom hotkeys
• Notifications — Display a notification when a song starts playing (interactive notifications are available on Windows)
• Taskbar Media Control — Control playback from your Windows taskbar
• TouchBar — Adds a TouchBar widget for macOS users
• Navigation — Next/Back navigation arrows directly integrated in the interface, like in your favorite browser
• Performance improvement — Improve performance by enabling experimental scripts

Video

• Video Toggle — Adds a button to switch between Video/Song mode; can also remove the video tab entirely
• Video Quality Changer — Allows changing the video quality with a button on the video overlay
• Captions Selector — Caption selector for YouTube Music audio tracks

What it is not

It is not an official Google product, it does not replace a YouTube Music Premium subscription for mobile background play or official offline downloads, and it does not host any music itself — it plays the same YouTube Music service you already use.