Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

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crborga
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Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

#1 Post by crborga »

I would like to request YouTube Music Desktop Application be build for native installation. Google Music Desktop Player has been great but the team is leaning towards pointing users to this project. Currently, this project supports YouTube Music better than GPMD does. Unfortunately, this project is only providing snap and appimage for linux. I have tried to build the source using Electron Wrapper but my knowledge is limited.

This project is located here: https://github.com/ytmdesktop/ytmdesktop

SwampRabbit
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Re: Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

#2 Post by SwampRabbit »

Thank you for the well done request, can look into it (no promises on speed), such a shame its an electron app.
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pannet1
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Re: Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

#3 Post by pannet1 »

crborga wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:14 pm I would like to request YouTube Music Desktop Application be build for native installation. Google Music Desktop Player has been great but the team is leaning towards pointing users to this project. Currently, this project supports YouTube Music better than GPMD does. Unfortunately, this project is only providing snap and appimage for linux. I have tried to build the source using Electron Wrapper but my knowledge is limited.

This project is located here: https://github.com/ytmdesktop/ytmdesktop
Meanwhile you can look at Freetube and GTK Youtube viewer
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crborga
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Re: Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

#4 Post by crborga »

pannet1 wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:01 pm
crborga wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:14 pm I would like to request YouTube Music Desktop Application be build for native installation. Google Music Desktop Player has been great but the team is leaning towards pointing users to this project. Currently, this project supports YouTube Music better than GPMD does. Unfortunately, this project is only providing snap and appimage for linux. I have tried to build the source using Electron Wrapper but my knowledge is limited.

This project is located here: https://github.com/ytmdesktop/ytmdesktop
Meanwhile you can look at Freetube and GTK Youtube viewer
These are not acceptable as they do not use just YouTube Music. They are just YouTube clients which don't use my subscription likes or dislikes etc. For now, I will use the appimage but it's just not the same.

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wintermann
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Re: Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

#5 Post by wintermann »

I would like to add my request YouTube Music Desktop Application. It is beautiful application specially for YouTube Music, not just YouTube client

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Stevo
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Re: Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

#6 Post by Stevo »

The best that can be done is to just wrap the Electron app in a deb file with some extras if necessary, like a desktop file. Usually, that's not much better than using the AppImage, which also wraps up the Electron app.

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wintermann
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Re: Package Request: YouTube Music Desktop Application

#7 Post by wintermann »

There is new YouTube Music deb release
https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/releases/

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