Pear Desktop ~ Desktop Client For YouTube Music


Pear Desktop is an Electron-based desktop client for YouTube Music designed for Windows, Linux and macOS. The project keeps the standard YouTube Music interface while adding desktop integration, plugins, themes and additional playback features.

The application is open source and distributed under the MIT license.

Features:

  • Native desktop-style window and controls
  • Plugin framework
  • Ad blocker
  • Lyrics support
  • Last.fm scrobbling
  • Discord Rich Presence
  • Media key support
  • Custom themes and CSS
  • Audio compressor
  • Equalizer
  • Crossfade
  • Skip silences
  • SponsorBlock integration
  • Video/audio mode toggle
  • Notification support
  • Downloader plugin
  • OBS integration
  • System tray support
  • Global keyboard shortcuts

How It Works

Pear Desktop loads the standard YouTube Music web interface inside a desktop application window and extends it through plugins and Electron desktop integration. It is not a standalone music service and still requires a YouTube Music or Google account for normal use.

Basic Usage

  1. Download the correct installer for your operating system from the Releases page.
  2. Install and launch the application.
  3. Sign into your Google account.
  4. Use YouTube Music normally.
  5. Optional plugins can be enabled or disabled from the Plugins menu.

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS

Notes

Because Pear Desktop uses Electron, memory and CPU usage are generally higher than lightweight native audio players such as foobar2000 or AIMP. The project is intended primarily as a feature-enhanced desktop frontend for streaming music from YouTube Music rather than as a traditional local-library music player.

github.com/pear-devs/pear-desktop

foobar2000-catbox ~ Foobar, Discord, Catbox & Images


This is a helper application that uploads images to Catbox, and is meant to be invoked by the foo_discord_rich plugin. With a fork of the Discord Rich Presence Integration component, uploads cover art to catbox.moe and prints the URL.

github.com/realoksi/foobar2000-catbox

Audion ~ Community Driven Music Player


Audion is a privacy-focused music player that brings the Spotify experience to your local music library. No internet required, no tracking, just your music, beautifully organized.

Key highlights:

  • Synced lyrics with karaoke-style word highlighting
  • Extensible plugin system
  • Gorgeous, customizable interface
  • Fully offline

www.audionplayer.com
github.com/dupitydumb/Audion

Harmonoid ~ Play & Manage Music Library


Plays & manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.

Features:

  • Fluid animations & beautiful design, everywhere you navigate
  • It’ll find lyrics or give your own .LRC files
  • Closely paired to work together. Windows & Linux
  • Experience the consistent Material Design
  • Music library management based on metadata tags
  • Capable of indexing 30+ files/second & saves cache for future app start-ups
  • Very strictly follows Material Design guidelines for UI & animations
  • Taskbar & System Media Transport Controls for Windows
  • Small installer (≈ 35 MB) & low RAM usage (≈ 150 MB)
  • Discord RPC integration with album art support & “Find”/”Listen” buttons

harmonoid.com
github.com/harmonoid
sourceforge.net/projects/harmonoid.mirror
itsfoss.com/harmonoid

Glimpse ~ Free, Fast & Extensible Player


The free, fast and extensible music player.

glimpseaudio.co.uk
github.com/aquagoose/Glimpse

Discord Audio Stream ~ Stream Audio Via Discord


Designed for 24/7 audio playing on discord.

Discord has many unwanted rate limits, especially in the audio area. This package does all the work and ensures that your music never stops playing due to ffmpeg or Discord, with as little effort as possible.

github.com/FrauJulian/Discord-Audio-Stream
www.npmjs.com/package/discord-audio-stream

Discord Audio Cable ~ Streaming Discord Bot


This is an system tray app that connects to a chosen Discord voice channel and streams audio from one of your audio devices or from YouTube.

github.com/vctandrade/discord-audio-cable

Strawberry ~ Cross-platform Music Player


Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors, enthusiasts and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It’s based on a heavily modified version of Clementine created in 2012 and 2013. Strawberry is written in C++ and Qt 5.

  • Play and organize music
  • Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, DSF, DSDIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey’s Audio
  • Audio CD playback
  • Native desktop notifications
  • Playlists in multiple formats
  • Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
  • Edit tags on music files
  • Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
  • Album cover art from Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Tidal and Deezer
  • Song lyrics from AudD
  • Support for multiple backends
  • Audio analyzer
  • Audio equalizer
  • Transfer music to iPod, iPhone, MTP or other mass-storage USB player
  • Streaming support for Tidal, Qobuz and Subsonic
  • Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
Strawberry Player User Interface

www.strawbs.org
github.com/jonaski/strawberry
github.com/strawberrymusicplayer
sourceforge.net/projects/strawberry-music-player.mirror
flathub.org/apps/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry

DeaDBeeF ~ Extensible Unix Audio Player


DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.

DeaDBeeF lets you play variety of audio formats, convert between them, customize the UI almost any way you want, and use many additional plugins which can extend it even more.

deadbeef

deadbeef.sourceforge.net
deadbeef.sourceforge.net/download
deadbeef.sourceforge.io/plugins.html
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.deadbeef.android

Plugins:

CUI ~ A faceted library browser plugin for Deadbeef. Columns-UI-like

github.com/VirInvictus/deadbeef-cui

References:

github.com/topics/deadbeef
github.com/topics/deadbeef-plugin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeaDBeeF

foo_discord_rich ~ Foobar2000 & Discord Integration


Foobar component which displays information about currently played track via Discord Rich Presence.

github.com/TheQwertiest/foo_discord_rich
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,116860.0.html

Alternative:
github.com/ultrasn0w/foo_drpc

Footers:
if($stricmp($right(%filename_ext%,3),iso),Super Audio CD - 2.8MHz,%codec% - $ifgreater(%samplerate%,1000000,$insert($div(%samplerate%,100000),'.',$sub($len($div(%samplerate%,100000)),1)) MHz,$ifgreater($mod(%samplerate%,1000),0,$insert($div(%samplerate%,100),'.',$sub($len($div(%samplerate%,100)),1)) kHz,$div(%samplerate%,1000) kHz)) - %bitrate% kbps)