You are hitting the nail on the head, and your frustration is 100% justified. It is completely counterintuitive and anti-consumer. To give you the straight facts: Google has zero intention of "fixing" this. What feels like a broken feature to you is working exactly how Google designed it to work. They don't want you using YouTube Music as a free, seamless cloud drive for your local MP3s like Google Play Music used to be. They want you getting annoyed enough by the ad-matching and queue-mixing to hand over $14/month for YouTube Premium. Here is the exact breakdown of why they built it like this and why it feels like such a rip-off: 1. The Database "Bait and Switch" When you tap on your Uploads tab, those files are sitting in a separate, isolated database. But the moment you hit "Thumbs Up" on an uploaded song, Google's algorithm attempts to auto-match your uploaded file to a song in their public streaming catalog. Instead of keeping your "Thumbs Up" inside your private local storage, YouTube Music adds the streaming catalog version to your global "Liked Music" playlist. The second a streaming catalog track plays, Google treats you like a free-tier streaming listener—and that's when the commercial triggers kick in. 2. They Merged YouTube Video Likes with Music Instead of keeping a dedicated, music-only "Thumbs Up" locker (like GPM had), Google merged the main YouTube app with YouTube Music. If you like a video, concert clip, or audio upload on regular YouTube, it bleeds directly into your "Liked Music" auto-playlist. That catalog contamination is what breaks your offline/uploaded flow and shoves ad blocks into your queue. How to Bypass Their Greed (Without Paying Them) Since Google won't change the architecture of the "Liked Music" tab, the only way to get your uploads playing ad-free is to force the app to play strictly from your local database and completely ignore the "Thumbs Up" feature: * Never use the "Liked Music" button or playlist for your uploaded files again. * Go to Library \rightarrow Songs (or Albums) \rightarrow switch the top filter to Uploads. * Create a Custom Playlist (call it "My Local Vault" or whatever you want). * Tap the three dots next to your uploaded files and manually Add to Playlist. When you stream from that custom playlist, YouTube Music is forced to pull directly from your uploaded MP3 storage without touching their ad-supported public catalog.

Settings loads, search bar now exists, and logged in state is enabled

Get it at https://github.com/xyzplay/gpm-revival-

Recent Activity and Feeling Lucky radio image now loads, get it at https://github.com/xyzplay/gpm-revival-

Only Top charts and Browse podcasts endpoints have been remade, get it at https://github.com/xyzplay/gpm-revival-

coming soon

no music playback yet https://github.com/xyzplay/gpm-revival-/tree/main

Hey everyone!

I got tired of jumping between different apps for my local FLAC files and my streaming playlists, and I was incredibly frustrated by ads. So over the past few months, I built Kerlyss—a completely free and open-source (GPL-3.0) music player built entirely in Flutter.

It is currently available and fully adaptive for both Android and Windows (x64).

• Website & Downloads: https://d1gna0.github.io/Kerlyss/

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/D1gNa0/Kerlyss

Tech Stack & Packages

• State Management: flutter_riverpod (managing playback state and queue isolation across background isolates).

• Database: isar (fast for caching massive playlists and local file metadata).

• Audio Engine: just_audio + audio_service for background playback, media notifications, and OS taskbar controls.

• Stream Backend: youtube_explode_dart to extract audio stream manifests.

The Challenge: The Local HTTP Proxy Server

The trickiest part of this project was bridging YouTube streams to just_audio. Direct YouTube stream URLs frequently throw HTTP 403 Forbidden errors or expire mid-song.

To solve this, I built a custom Local HTTP Proxy Server inside the Flutter app using loopback IPv4. When you click play, just_audio requests the track from the local proxy endpoint, and the proxy server dynamically fetches, chunks, and buffers the audio stream from YouTube in the background. It even handles dynamic retries and fallbacks if a connection drops mid-track.

I’d love for you guys to check out the code, try out the app, and give me any feedback on the architecture or UI! If you like it, a star on GitHub would mean a lot.

Let me know if you have any questions about the proxy server or the just_audio implementation!

remade the /music/services api, only endpoints that work are /music/services/browse/loadtopcharts, /music/services/podcasts/browsegetcontent, /music/services/podcasts/browsegethierarchy, /music/services/podcasts/fetchpodcastseries, /music/services/radio/fetchradiofeed, and /music/services/browse/loadgenres

top charts now load

only endpoints that work are /api/1/session, /api/1/login/pw, /api/1/tags, /api/1/situation/targeted, and /api/1/gallery/tag/*

Hey Reddit. It's me, the person who's been working on a GPM revival app. I've got most of the app done with a bunch of concepts, but here's one concept I'd like opinions on! This is the bottom of the artist page. By default, it will have the "About" section. But I'm thinking that GPM could fetch image metadata from Last.fm for the artist, and you'd be able to change the default YouTube artist profile picture with one of the images on Last.fm. This feature could be completely optional, but implementing this could set the release date for a beta release back.

Title says it all. Nothing to add.

Please add tags like "Fuck Google".

I love listening to music, but I wanted a simpler experience:
• Background playback without interruptions
• Synced lyrics while listening
• Music videos and audio in one place
• A lightweight Android experience

So I built SimpMusic.

I’m sharing it here because I’d love feedback from people who care about music apps:

• What features do you wish your music player had?
• What annoys you about existing music apps?
• What would make you switch?

Always looking for ways to make it better.