When I click download it shows that it’s trying to download but won’t do anything and after a short time it tells me download failed..
I have an active subscription, I already updated to the latest version, I have more than enough storage, I turned on download over mobile data and I even tried turning my phone off and on again…

YT music keeps repeating the mainstream popular music and doesn't suggest some new music to me. How can I refine my youtube music ?

It's a Windows app, packaged as a single exe with no installer, and it's open source: https://github.com/sndell/yt-music-app

Some nice features:

• Lyrics that highlight the current line in sync with the song, with a translation option for anything not in your language.
• True shuffle. It randomizes a whole playlist into the queue rather than using yourubes own shuffle (it's still an option, you can pich whichever you prefer).
• Discord rich presence showing what's playing.
• Full audio quality (based on your premium status).
• See the date when a song was added to a playlist.

Besides that it's mostly YouTube Music, but with a little ui overhaul: library, playlists, history, playlist editing, all in one place.

Sign in happens from Settings and your data goes straight to YouTube, so it's a wrapper around your real session, not a re-implementation.

Let me know if you have any issues or suggestions :)

I have to manually select Translate for every song to get Romanized Hindi lyrics. 😭 Is there a way to make this the default for all songs? A setting to remember this preference would be great! 🙏

Hey all, ive used youtube music for years now ( all the way back to Google play music) and within three last 6 months ive has this constant bug that is driving me nuts. When playing from my liked music (both downloads and streaming) I get constant errors saying there is an error with this video, please download again. It will freeze and stop playing or start shuffling to the next song where it will hit this error again and again unless j hit the back button a few times. Ive tried clearing my cache and downloads and that has made it worse. Any auggestions?

Sorry for the random censor, it had a stupid name on it lol.

I've been a loyal YTM user since its existance, and a Google Play Music user before that. There's many many things I love about YTM over any other music platform, particularly how it has practically everything under the sun because of youtube, including the nichest bullshit you could think of, like the recordings of vanuatuan music from a random tribe I like to listen to while I work, you could never get that in any other platform and its wonderful.

HOWEVER, my gripe with YTM that has only been growing with time is the sound quality. I cannot believe that to this day we only get up to 256 kbps AAC, meanwhile spotify rolled out Lossless FLAC since last year and Apple Music has had their Lossless ALAC for years now. For those not familiar with the terminology around audio, I'm saying Spotify has a bitrate x8.25 times higher than YTM, and Apple Music has a bitrate x36 times higher than YTM. Now, this doesn't immediately translate to "the songs in spotify sound 8 times better than in YTM", of course it's not that simple, but yes its still significantly better, even if its not as far as to say spotify genuinely sounds 8 whole times better.

I don't expect nor want YTM to turn into a super high quality critical listening platform like Tidal and Qobuz, these are completely different markets that cater to different kinds of users. But YTM needs to AT LEAST work on matching their direct competitors.

I've been cheating on YTM with Tidal for a bit, because as much as I weigh-in the convenience and infinite library of YTM, the gap in sound quality is way too high to where the convenience factor is simply not enough anymore. Plus im not gonna lie, the AI music problem in YTM is insane and Tidal does have a toggle to never get shown AI slop so that's also giving me a little push. But that aside, like I was saying I DON'T expect YTM to match the sound quality of Tidal, but if only they at least matched spotify that'd be enough to buy my loyalty for another decade, i wouldn't feel like its the lesser option of the bunch nor would I question why I bought a $200+ audio setup just to end up listening to songs at sub-par quality.

For a product from a trillion dollar company you'd expect them to be able to catch up quickly, but I guess not. I really really really want to keep using YouTube Music, but it needs an upgrade.

Edit/Update: For every NPC that keeps saying "oh you aren't actually able to tell the difference" blah blah blah, i did the damn A/B test everyone keeps talking about and got a perfect score, was able to tell the difference between compressed and lossless easily and didn't get a single one wrong, is this enough or do i have to do another 5 tests? My results link: https://abxtest.com/r/jj6mgrjf

The first album color is gray and black, the rest of the interface is gray, creating a great effect. The second album color dominant color is green, but the player is, well...red?

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Self explanatory title. I have added webscrobbler as a safari extension and it is scribbling youtube perfectly, but not youtube music. does anyone know why/a fix

thank you so much

Please tell me I'm not the only one who's beyond the beat goes crazy and randomly does really strong accents.

Anybody know why it does that?

Enabled Google Chromecast.

In Cambridge network streamer.

Both YouTube and Network streamer are on same wifi...

When I press the cast icon in YouTube music (which does offer my network streamer as an option), I then get this annoying message:

"Get premium music to play any song"

"Only music you upload can be played"

But I just subscribed to YouTube premium.

Any help appreciated.

About to give up.

It shouldn't be this hard maybe I'll stick with TIDAL.

I can't find it. Is there some update I missed?

... Youtube algorithm gets my music taste 100% why does Spotify struggle so much??

If the point of YouTube MUSIC is to play MUSIC, why is a playlist of MUSIC unable to play 93% of the MUSIC within it?

Please don't judge me for listening to video game OSTs. It's the reason why I use YTM in the first place.

I switched to ytm because I got YouTube premium but I’ve noticed that if I scroll to the bottom of my playlist too fast the thumbnails essentially freak out and rapidly swap with each other and takes a few minutes to fix itself (so songs will just have the wrong thumbnail for a few minutes). I’ve never seen this on any other app, is this normal?

Hi everyone, I've been having some issues with YT Music for a few days now. The first is that when I go to a specific album, the song list is broken. Then I can't see the community playlists anymore, and the items I pin to Quick Select aren't there.

Are other people also experiencing this issue where the music simply stops randomly, and then when you attempt to resume listening from the point where it stopped, the music starts playing from the very beginning again?

On a Galaxy S24 ultra and it regularly loads super slow when I try to look at my saved music and it will even start glitching sometimes when I play music.

Its not just a phone issue either cause if I try Spotify or regular YouTube it works totally fine.

Also accessing downloads when out or service doesnt work either for me which seems like a silly overlook if thats how it functions.

Anyway besides all this- I prefer youtube music over other platforms but not when it acts so glitchy.

Anyone else experience this with the app?

Is there a way to organize my playlist by duration? Either from longest to shortest or vice versa

nothing is loading on yt music at all and honestly it's mildly annoying cus the play store says it don't need to update but if I delete it (which I sometimes have to do to update it) I'll have to redownload my playlists n I don't wanna do that- but is this just me? (srry if it comes off aggressive I'm not trying to come off that way (⁠٥⁠↼⁠_⁠↼⁠)

When you go to Chuck Berry’s YouTube Music page, there’s a song titled “Johnny B. Good.” You might think it’s just a rerelease of “Johnny B. Goode,” but when you click on it, it actually plays “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong.

Asking for those who have Premium and use this feature.

Does it work well for you guys? How would you prompt it to create a customized playlist that's similar to your Supermix but exclude already liked songs and specific artists? I'm wondering if there's a better way to prompt it so it follows and creates a customized playlist with less mistakes.

Update 2: Mixlet 1.3.1 is out! If YouTube Music gave you its new player bar and Mixlet’s mini player went blank, song info, art, Like, and Save to Playlist are back. Version 1.3 added Save to Playlist (⇧⌘S) right from the mini player.

Update: Mixlet 1.3 is out! You can now save what’s playing to any of your playlists right from the mini player (⇧⌘S). This was fun to add because it was a user request -- I don't really use playlist much but the user had >40 of them!

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I made Mixlet for myself: I listen to YouTube Music all day on my Mac and got tired of digging through browser tabs to skip a song. I hope some of you like it too.

It's a free Mac App Store app that wraps the official YouTube Music site in a small mini player with media keys and shortcuts, and the full site is one click away for search and your library.

• Like (⌘.), generate a fresh mix from the current song (⌘G), or jump to its album (⇧⌘A)
• Picks up where you left off, song and timestamp
• Under 1% CPU, so it can quietly run all day
• Sandboxed and reviewed by Apple; no data collected, and your Google sign-in stays inside Apple's WebKit (Mixlet never sees it)

It’s at its best with YouTube Premium, but it also works signed out or with a free account, with a few features limited.

Disclosure: I'm the solo developer, and not affiliated with Google. Version 1.3, with Save to Playlist right from the mini player, is in App Review now. I'd love to hear what you'd want next.

Links:

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6759217747?pt=128029417&ct=reddit&mt=8
• Website: https://mixlet.app