Youtube music app for windows

This is a release candidate build for v2.0.0. Full release notes will come with v2.0.0

There has been a significant amount of changes since v2.0.0-rc.3 based on the feedback and bugs reported since then.

macOS Users: We have corrected a bug that prevented launching the application due to a code signing issue. For apple silicon issues refer below about ARM builds

ARM Users: We have included more arm builds as the workflow for them has improved thanks to @ElectricalBoy for #1169. We want to use this release to test the ARM builds for various platforms if you have a native ARM device. These builds may not work or may have problems as we don’t have machines that can natively create an ARM version of YTMDesktop. Windows currently does not have an ARM build due to file conflicts with x64 when publishing

Fixed:

• Crash on 1 letter titles #1167
• Crash on certain media when missing title, author, or a duration #1164
• Disable auto updater for macOS due to inability to launch the app with it #1156
• Rewrite Discord rich presence integration making it more reliable and less crash prone #1160
• Fix region specific issues where YouTube Music would not load because a premium membership is required #1168
  • There is still an active issue of #1170 that is open which states that a non premium membership account login will always end up at a 400 bad request page. This is likely related to the fix here but is a low priority issue.
• Fix tray icon click for window show/restore. If a window was minimized and the tray icon was clicked it may lead to an empty window until resized
• Disallow hardware volume keys & pause/break key from shortcuts preventing application crashes
• Fix + key in shortcuts. It will now properly translate the key so the application doesn’t crash and the key can be used

Other miscellaneous changes & quality of life:

• Automatically save state every 5 minutes relating to #1162. This is more of a temporary fix until a more robust solution is created
• Add home button to titlebar to navigate to YouTube Music home page if needed. e.g. stuck at login page
• Add dialog popup if YouTube Music is preventing navigation
• Only save YouTube Music urls to state e.g. to prevent the login page from being saved
• Discord presence is no longer updated at the speed of light. The app is now more considerate how often it sends presence updates
• Add thumbs up/thumbs down shortcut back
• Zoom setting added under Settings -> Appearance to change the zoom level of YouTube Music
• Add the current YouTube Music page title to the main window title. This may be useful for third party applications reading window titles in the process list. YTMDesktop will append | YouTube Music Desktop App to the title of the window
• Fix window icons for various platforms whereas previously it would show the default electron icon
• Add a loading screen with status information. If YouTube Music takes longer than 30 seconds to load a message will be shown to help indicate there may be a problem e.g. network is very slow or the application is malfunctioning
• Add (Unresponsive) to titlebar if the YouTube Music view is being unresponsive
• ⚡ Various performance optimizations
• 🔒 Various security hardening changes

Developer related changes:

• Add album/albumId to the API
• Add toggleLike/toggleDislike as a remote command to the API
• Add playQueueIndex as a remote command to the API
• Add likeStatus to the API
• If developer tools are enabled, you can now right click the YouTube Music view to open the developer tools of YouTube Music
• Reliability of video data changing is improved

If you’d like to view the changes between each release in git commit form: v2.0.0-rc.3…v2.0.0-rc.4

AUTO UPDATER & CHECK FOR UPDATES BUTTON IS STILL NON-FUNCTIONAL AND WILL ERROR. THIS IS EXPECTED BEHAVIOR UNTIL V2.0.0

Feedback is greatly appreciated in this issue where we announced v2. If a bug is encountered we request you open a new issue to consolidate and keep track of any bugs that occur.

THIS IS A SECURITY PATCH BUILD FOR CVE-2023-4863

With the big scary warning out of the way there are still some changes that are included in this build

Fixed:

• Fixed #1158
• Hack fix #1159
• Last.fm integration error fixes

Other miscellaneous changes & quality of life:

• Custom CSS injection will refit YTM popups e.g. click the 3 dots to open a menu then inject Custom CSS to move elements around. This will now properly refit the popup from the 3 dots menu to be positioned correctly with the moved element
• The crash dialog popup should no longer continuously popup

If you’d like to view the changes between each release in git commit form: v2.0.0-rc.2…v2.0.0-rc.3

AUTO UPDATER & CHECK FOR UPDATES BUTTON IS STILL NON-FUNCTIONAL AND WILL ERROR. THIS IS EXPECTED BEHAVIOR UNTIL V2.0.0

Feedback is greatly appreciated in this issue where we announced v2. If a bug is encountered we request you open a new issue to consolidate and keep track of any bugs that occur.

This is a release candidate build for v2.0.0. Full release notes will come with v2.0.0

There has been a few changes since v2.0.0-rc.1 based on the feedback and bugs reported since then.

Fixed:

• Windows: Crash on exiting application #1153
• Windows: Thumbar buttons on the taskbar would not consistently show. They should now, please report if this is not the case
• Integrations tab would become broken if companion server is enabled #1149
• Fixed errors with companion server for fresh installs where no persistent data would cause issues
• Fix autoplay policy. Occasionally it was noticed that song changes always required interaction. This should no longer be the case
• Fix fullscreen with F11. Fullscreen did work but F11 did not work properly and this has been corrected
• Fix numpad keys for shortcuts
• Fix shortcuts not registering properly #1150. If this still is not working properly we’d like to hear about it
• Taskbar progress bar should consistently work for all operating systems

Other miscellaneous changes & quality of life:

• Introduced log files. Not everything is logged and we’re refining it but hopefully if things go wrong more information will be available.
• Introduced crash reporter. This only saves to file and is not uploaded anywhere. This is for electron/chromium crashes
• Improved UI/UX for shortcuts. The experience should be more fluid
• Auto reload YTM view if renderer process crashes
• Added tray menu to show/hide window. You could always click the icon to show the window but a tray menu button was added as well
• Enabling companion server auth is now in memory only. This setting used to be saved to disk
• Store migrations added if we make changes to the config file between versions

If you’d like to view the changes between each release in git commit form: v2.0.0-rc.1…v2.0.0-rc.2

AUTO UPDATER & CHECK FOR UPDATES BUTTON IS STILL NON-FUNCTIONAL AND WILL ERROR. THIS IS EXPECTED BEHAVIOR UNTIL V2.0.0

Feedback is greatly appreciated in this issue where we announced v2. If a bug is encountered we request you open a new issue to consolidate and keep track of any bugs that occur.

This is a release candidate build for v2.0.0. Full release notes will come with v2.0.0

Feedback is greatly appreciated in this issue where we announced v2

It’s been a while since a release, and there’s a few things which I would have loved to have included within this version which are some reasonably mature PRs, however just felt it was worth releasing something sooner rather than later.

#866 — Can’t sign in, Browser or app may not be secure & #916 — stuck on loading page until window resize are still known issues in these builds, and please review them for when and if they get fixed into the Development version.

What’s Changed

• 🩹 Nightly Patch by @Alipoodle in #874
• ✨ Add Album to Rich Presences’ Large Picture by @Alipoodle in #888
• ✨ Alternate Miniplayer Stream Widget by @PHNX-Arcanus in #942
• 🎉 Enable AV-Switcher commit

Full Changelog: 1.14.1…1.14.2

Update to latest Development build with a few patches to make it more appropriate for sharing.

Feedback, and Bugs/Issues are greatly appreciated in both Issues on GitHub & within the Discord.

Including but not limited to:

Update log

Locale Update:

• Auto update locale, and just general updates for each language

Added title for «Remove from Library» if item is already in Library: #372
Large number of changes to volume, including a beta feature of a better Curved Volume to Loudness: #374, #467
Fix for Notification by using Electron’s Native: #367, #383
Option to Match colour of Album art in YTM’s UI: #389 & #392, #399
Fix for Last.fm Album Scrobbling: #427
Fix for MPRIS in Snap version: #443, #462
Fix for Zoom displaying as Undefined: #463
Fix Miniplayer not correctly setting size: #461
Fix some Setting not saving: #481
Improvements to Scroll wheel volume controls: #482
Allow Raising of Player: #456
Add Shutdown button: #457 (Broken on Windows currently, and disabled)
Improved logic behind API’s Pause & Play to check it’s state before running the command: #483
Fix some Padding issues on Linux: #485
Genius Lyrics Embed: #490
Forward Page Navigation: #522
Update to Electron V11: #567 & Later to 11.4.9
Fix MPRIS being used before initialized: #573
Discord Rich Presences Buttons: #576
Added Relaunch for Toggling Discord RPC: #587
Disable MPRIS When on a Non-Linux platform
Fix weird behaviour when enable shiny-tray
Added Rolling Title in Shiny Tray.
Fixed missing error for disabled Shiny tray.
Fixed handleOpenUrl
Fixed Link in About Page: #605
Added Pause on Suspend option.
Fix Windows Media Provider to display Playback information & Disable Media key registering when enabled: #614
Added Sleep Timer: #451
Improved Miniplayer resizing: #379
Fixed some Focus/Show behaviour to work on Mac
Disable Discord RPC Showing on Adverts: #621
Fix for constantly registering default protocol: #639
Fix Clipboard monitoring: #683
Disable Disk Caching: #677
Disable needing to refresh client if there’s no Progress bar for MacOS: #728
Lyrics always on top: #747
Add support for Meta Keybinds: #725, #751
Add a few changes for Electron 13 support later on.
Add Volume Support for MPRIS: #755
Fix «Continue where you left off» to store the Video Link: #765
And a few more

latest

Test nightly build

:memo: Add console message for i18n

* Help developer locate their locale file

Add

• Notification when like and dislike song with hotkeys (3b797b2)
• Miniplayer open/close custom keys (#310)
• Audio output switch on tray icon
• Add to library and add to playlist on middle action bar (#247)
• Option to enable/disable buttons inject on middle action bar
• Add dialog box when copy link from youtube (ab8a1d7)
• Option to disable tray icon (#116)
• Skip songs marked with thumb down (#334)

Fix

• Lyrics keep scrolling back to top (#298)
• Remote control webpage, strange visual with multiples interfaces (#300)
• Changelog always shows on startup (#323)
• A JavaScript error occurred in the main process — unable to enter preferences (#324)
• Error on changing next track button hotkey (#327)
• Settings Dialogue shows on wrong monitor (#265)
• Unable to resize from top left corner (#331)
• Pause between songs (#185)

Improve

• Remote Control (#296)
• updateActivity (events when paused and change seekbar)
• Thumbs up behavior [hotkeys] (#259)
• Disable shortcuts setting (#301 #3)
• Refine Simplified Chinese translation (1e9bdf2)

Add

• Google Play Badge App

Fix

• Error Opening main Window (#288)
• Add option to disable current playing song next to Windows 10 volume slider (#289)
• When minimized, I get an error when trying to show the app (#290)
• Playing songs error (#292)

Improve

• WindowsMediaService
• Improve miniplayer