YT Music Tray

A simple application to run Youtube Music within the windows tray or mac menubar

Tray button

Youtube Music browser

Download!

You can download the prebuilt executables at the releases page.

Version 0.2.0

• macOS
• Windows

Features

• Play/Pause button
• Next/Previous track button
• Like/Dislike button
• Youtube Music will open in a floating window
• Will stay logged in

Future aims

• Track notification
• Custom selection/order of buttons

Development

• Clone the repository
• Run npm i to install dependencies
• Run npm run dev to run in development mode
• Run npm run build to build the project
• Run npm run start to run the application
• Run npm i -g electron-builder to install electron-builder to build the executables

At the moment this app requires a PR to be pulled into menubar for this project to function properly. Do fix this run the following:

cd ./node_modules/
rm -rf menubar
git clone https://github.com/haydendonald/menubar
cd menubar
yarn install
yarn build

FAQ

Move the player to the Windows taskbar

To make the player work correctly in Windows, simply click and drag the youtube music icon into the tray

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What's this???

This comes up because we use system events to open the app at login.

How is my login stored?

When a new cookie comes in i simply pass this to use the session cookies from Electron. It will restore the cookies when the app reloads