a streaming music player that plays content from youtube

your music library is a list of songs

(windows users probably want this)

• go to https://github.com/robblue2x/magnesium/releases

• download the archive

  • windows: magnesium-win32-x64.zip
  • linux: magnesium-linux-x64.tar.gz

• extract the archive on your disk

• open the folder magnesium-(platform)-x64

• run the executable binary magnesium (.exe)

• open the folder magnesium-(platform)-x64
• open file playlist.txt with atom/notepad++/wordpad
• add one line per song
• the format artist title seems to work quite well

• node
• npm

on ubuntu/debian:

sudo apt install nodejs npm nodejs-legacy

cd ~/projects
git clone https://github.com/robblue2x/magnesium.git
cd magnesium
npm install

cd ~/projects/magnesium
npm start

cd ~/projects/magnesium
git pull
npm i

cd ~/projects/magnesium
npm run package-(linux|win32|all)

I hear ads before a video

youtube sometimes plays ads before videos, blocking youtube and google ads in your hosts file seems to work well to stop these

I added ABC to my playlist but it doesn't play

try searching for the same thing on youtube.com, that is all this app does, if if ABC can't be found on youtube then it cannot be played

Why didn't you use embedded YT player

i really wanted to, and had it working in an early prototype, but some videos (a lot of music videos) don't play if not viewed from youtube.com

Why is there no pause/seek feature?

the app just loads a youtube video in a hidden window, it can't interact with it