ViMusic

A Jetpack Compose Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music

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.

Features

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

TODO

Improve UI/UX (help needed)
Settings page
Support YouTube playlists (and other stuff to improve features parity)
Download songs (not sure about this)
Play local songs (not sure about this, too)
Translation

Installation

You can download the latest apk here, the unique distribution channel.

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

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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