YouTube Music for macOS
A native macOS wrapper for YouTube Music — no Electron, just a lean WebKit shell with deep system integration. Forked from 0xjemm/youtube-music-macos (MIT), which stays deliberately minimal.
I took it in a different direction. The headline is an audio-reactive Butterchurn visualizer that taps the app’s own audio output through Core Audio, plus a full runtime light theme, a fullscreen control bar with idle auto-hide, Spotify import, and a reshaped app icon. Development continues locally across several branches.
What it does
A third "Visualizer" tab on YT Music's Song/Video toggle renders a Butterchurn (MilkDrop) visualization driven by a native Core Audio process tap of the app's own output.
YouTube Music ships dark-only; this adds a full light theme derived at runtime from YT's own design tokens — so it self-heals across UI changes — with a crossfading dark/light toggle.
A fullscreen visualizer mode with an idle auto-hide control bar — transport, seek, volume, and metadata wired straight to YT playback.
Connect a Spotify account to match and import playlists and liked songs into YouTube Music, via an in-app OAuth flow.
Redrawn into a proper macOS squircle so it sits correctly in the Dock alongside native apps.
Media keys, Now Playing in Control Center with artwork, and Discord Rich Presence — the lean WebKit core, carried forward from upstream.
Screenshots
See it on GitHub
Forked from 0xjemm/youtube-music-macos (MIT). All extensions below are my own work.