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@afadhili/ytmusic-cli

v0.1.6

Published

Terminal-based YouTube Music player with mpv, yt-dlp, SQLite, playlists, lyrics, and ASCII cover previews.

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Maintainers

afadhiliafadhili

Keywords

youtube-musiccliterminalmpvyt-dlpmusic-player

Readme

YT Music CLI

Terminal-based YouTube Music player built with Ink, mpv, yt-dlp, SQLite, and Drizzle ORM.

Features

  • Search and play YouTube Music tracks
  • Queue with next, previous, remove, and reorder support
  • History, favorites, and playlists
  • Lyrics support
  • ASCII album cover preview
  • Local audio cache
  • Configurable settings
  • mpv IPC control

Screenshots

Home

Home Preview

Search

Search Page

Playlists

Playlists Page

Requirements

This app requires mpv, yt-dlp, and socat to use all features. You can still run without yt-dlp (stream-only mode) or socat (limited IPC features), but mpv is essential.

  • mpv - Media player for audio playback (required)
  • yt-dlp - YouTube audio extraction (recommended)
    • Why: Enables local caching of tracks, better offline support, and fallback audio format support when streaming fails
  • socat - Socket communication utility (recommended)
    • Why: Required for reliable mpv IPC communication, property queries, and advanced error diagnostics

Installing Requirements

# With Scoop
scoop install mpv yt-dlp socat

# With Chocolatey
choco install mpv yt-dlp socat
brew install mpv yt-dlp socat
# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install mpv socat
pip install yt-dlp

# Arch Linux (btw)
sudo pacman -S mpv yt-dlp socat

# Fedora
sudo dnf install mpv yt-dlp socat

Installation

Install from npm:

npm install -g @afadhili/ytmusic-cli

Run:

ytmusic-cli

Development

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/afadhili/ytmusic-cli.git
cd ytmusic-cli

Install dependencies:

npm install

Run in development mode:

npm run dev

Build:

npm run build

Run built version:

npm start

Notes

This app uses mpv for playback and yt-dlp for downloading/caching tracks.