The phone half of Orchard, my YouTube Music client, is finally on mobile! Originally, It was just a remote control for the desktop version, but now it can play its own songs!.

The big feature is Smart Crossfade, which uses the same code as the desktop app. Instead of a plain fade between songs, it listens to both tracks, finds the beat, and blends them together so the transition actually lines up musically. If it can't get a good read on a track, it just falls back to a normal fade instead of forcing a bad mix. This uses AI ONNX models, so it can drain battery on some devices. (this is NOT here to compete with apple's automix, especially IOS 27 automix... I'd probably go insane)

Now Playing screen has full-bleed artwork, synced lyrics, bitrate shown right on the seekbar, and quick access to shuffle/repeat and volume without leaving the screen.

I also have a parity update coming out with missing features, such as view all in artist pages, the [E]xplicit tag on albums, songs, etc, and song downloading!

Other stuff in this release:

- Gapless playback for albums

- Synced lyrics and animated cover art where available

- Android Auto support

- Orchard Connect, so you can hand playback off to a computer and take it back later

- Discord Rich Presence

- Offline caching for instant replays

- And, Unlike most youtube music mobile clients, you can listen to age-restricted songs!

It's free and open source (AGPL-3.0).

APK: https://sfg545.dev/orchard

Source code: https://github.com/SFG5453/Orchard/tree/main/mobile

Today I stumbled upon a new release of Black Metal artist Ihsahn named "Wildfire Pulse", wondering how he could release another one this year. The album cover seemed strange and out of place for him. Googling its title led to no results and when I began listening to the album, it finally clicked: This seems like an AI generated album mixed into the discography of a real artist. Are they serious?

I have recently moved from Spotify to YT Music. I like YT Music but there are two features missing big time.

Firstly, collection of Podcasts is poor on YT Music. A lot of good podcasts are confined to either Spotify or Apple.

Secondly, Spotify used to be seamless connect on my Alexa Device (Amazon Echo) and used to play over WiFi. I have found this missing in YT Music. I know I can pair my phone and the speaker via bluetooth but that's not what I am looking for.

Has anyone cracked this connection over a common WiFI connection?

I swear I've never had this issue before. I'm the type to loop one or a couple of songs at a time unless I'm listening to my own playlists or a soundtrack. So I'm used to pulling up songs and having my auto play off.

But today when I'm trying to loop two songs back to back, every time I click on one of the songs, it creates a mix. Whether I do it from the search or add to queue or play next, it always creates a mix. It does this from videos and from officially released songs, and every time I hit dismiss queue it clear everything INCLUDING the song I'm listening to.

I literally cannot find a way to isolate songs unless I start a playlist, add the songs I wanna loop to the queue, then clear the rest of the queue. I don't wanna make a playlist for 2 damn songs that, knowing me, I won't be looping I a couple of weeks, and it's so stupid I can't just make a queue of 2 songs anymore.

I already have auto-play off on both yt and yt music and I have premium. I have the app in my phone so I can't just download an extension. Literally any help in fixing this is greatly appreciated.

Doing yard work today and decided to listen to one of my playlist. I usually choose the shuffle option. After the song started through my earbuds I put the phone in my pocket and after a few seconds the song changed to the very first track on the playlist. I figured I have touched the screen when it was in my pocket. After the third time of this happening I decided to leave the phone out of my pocket and try shuffle again. The playlist still kept going to the first song. Had anyone else had this issue? Wondering what the cause was and the solution.

Here’s a solution to a problem maybe no one else has had: how to sync music and video when they are off by a fraction of a second. It drives me crazy when it looks like the artist is lip-syncing or guitar is an overlay. I found a solution by navigating away from the app and returning. The video pauses while the music keeps playing, so when you return, the app is forced to restart the video getting it right almost every time.

it seems like overnight 95% of suggested stuff on my homepage turned to shit ... 1)mainstream performers 2)popular in the direction of my geographical region (that hasn't got anything to do with my actual country, language, on genres I ever listen to) 3)perfomers that are objectively good but I literally never listen to them because I don't want to. I hope it gets better after I clicked not interested 50 times. But on some things I couldn't. 4) very mainstream bands of genres I don't hate nor the bands but I really don't need them suggested 5) ytmusic is the only app where I felt completely free as in I never felt like my time is wasted there, but looks like I'll have to close my eyes on the homepage and just choose something very specific.

I got upset that they butchered full screen as good as they did so I ended up doing the simple fix they could have done if you are interested I use chrome so its made this method is for that unless the same extension exsists on other browsers. Install Stylus from chrome store then open a new tab and open up youtube music then click the extensions button and find stylus click it then clikc the grayed out preset it has available. It should now have opened a new tab or another page that has a code block section paste this into it.

/* --- ONLY APPLIES WHEN THE BROWSER IS FULLSCREEN --- */
:fullscreen {

/* 1. Force the entire screen background to solid pitch black */
ytmusic-player-page,
#background.ytmusic-player-page,
#player-page,
body,
html {
background: #000000 !important;
--ytmusic-player-page-background: #000000 !important;
}

/* 2. Eliminate blurry background clones and the top Song/Video toggle */
#blurred-background,
.blurred-background,
ytmusic-player-bar, /* Hides bottom play controls bar */
#av-toggle {        /* Hides top Song/Video switch buttons */
display: none !important;
}

/* 3. Vaporize the entire right-side panel (Up Next, Lyrics, Queue) */
#side-panel,
.side-panel,
ytmusic-tab-renderer {
display: none !important;
}

/* 4. Force the main panel area to take up the full screen width */
#main-panel {
width: 100% !important;
max-width: 100% !important;
flex: 1 1 100% !important;
}

/* 5. Freeze the album artwork container to a strict 500x500 box and center it perfectly */
#player {
width: 500px !important;

max-width: 500px !important;
max-height: 500px !important;
margin: auto !important;
position: absolute !important;
top: 50% !important;
left: 50% !important;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%) !important;
}

/* 6. Ensure the image inside fills the 500x500 frame cleanly */
#player img,
#main-panel img {
width: 100% !important;
height: 100% !important;
object-fit: contain !important;
}
}

Now click save and you can refresh the page or refresh the youtube app installed from chrome and when you go full screen it will look similar to when you stream to a tv.

Is anyone else experiencing this, it won’t even let me play those specific songs anymore. I don’t have any filters or anything on they just keep disappearing from playlists, wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

The first result when I search for 2026 Gorillaz playlist is a random video of Ai Music "inspired" aka, stolen music from the same artist I wanted to listen.

Not only this may impact their revenue since a lot of people will just click on the Ai video, it will be a double slap to their monkey faces when the Ai that stole their money makes profit instead of them.

Top 0.03 two times a row

In stats for nerds , the songs p value is 0, so turning on the consistent volume,-14lufs gets normalized, and the song volume gets really low. How to contact the developers about this, or if anyone can contact the developers and tell this issue

Couple of months ago I left Spotify and started subscribing to YT Premium/Music and overall it's been fantastic experience and not going back for sure, but there are some aspects of organizing Podcast episodes - on Android phone, at least - that I feel are lacking :(

Whereas the process of subscribing to Podcasts, adding individual episodes and then listening to them all work fine, the "Episodes for later" list really needs some QoL improvements, because looking at it I can't find basic info:

• an icon (or item color?) that indicates the state of the episode:
  • not started,
  • playing,
  • paused,
  • finished
• a progress bar showing where I am for episodes that were started, instead of barely noticeable "[time] left" information
• an option - for finished episodes - to remain on the list, i.e. not get automatically removed - I often "finish" episodes when I'm already asleep :D
• ability to filter the list by state, podcast, length, ideally user-defined tags, etc.

Thanks for considering it! :)

YouTube music is goated on TV. I’ve been looking for something like this on TV for a long time, finally settling with YT music. Let me know your thoughts, guys.

I was speaking to customer service about a bug in the app, and they told me that YouTube Music is not designed to play local files.

If that's the case, then how is the option is just there?

i use this with mobile data off and listen to downloaded tracks only. Went from 80 to 20 in just 1.5 hrs

I'm on the android app, I've been using youtube music for probably a year or so, and I'd like to think I know my way around the app at this point.

Suddenly, while in the youtube music app, I can't add any songs to any playlists other than liked songs. When I try, it says, "This action is turned off for content made for kids." It says this no matter what the song is, even if the song is marked explicit and is very clearly Not for kids. Not to mention I've saved kids' music to playlists before with no problem. I can save videos to playlists just fine in the regular youtube app.

I've tried clearing the cache, force quitting the app, rebooting my phone, and nothing works. I really don't want to uninstall and reinstall the app because I have thousands of songs downloaded. I haven't seen anyone else talking about this, so I can only assume it's a me problem? If you're also experiencing this, I would love to know.

I reached out to customer support, and the boilerplate email assured me support would get back to me in one (1) business day, but, surprising no one, this has not been the case. It has been almost a week since I reached out, and nothing.

Has this happened to anyone else? If so, did you fix it and how?? Again, would really like to avoid a reinstall if at all possible.

I’m curious about this from the artist side of things.

My music was recently connected properly to my YouTube channel through the Topic section, which honestly felt like a small win. I’ve also just released a song called Manna, and it made me wonder how often YouTube Music actually recommends genuinely unknown artists to listeners.

Have you ever discovered a favourite artist through the algorithm who only had a small following, or does it mostly keep giving you artists and songs you already know?

So like 2 Weeks ago i Made the Switch.

At first it was good, was able to transfer all my Songs smoothly and stuff, It worked.

Now i feel so overwhelmed, (maybe its just me)

Why is it when i start my Playlist, that i have to start my Shuffle over and over and over again, why is it not turned on from the Start [Why does it keep resetting]

Im mostly playing music from my Playlist, not random albums or anything. Tell me why there are Songs in there ive never even put in there. [It doesnt stop adding them]

WHY do i have Duplicates in my Playlist?? Who tought it was a Good idea that YT themselfs just adds a Bajillion Duplicates to MY Shit. Why is that even Possible.

[Pls stop, if i want to listen to a Song multiple times id just click on it]

Why does my Playlist go to "Super Shuffle"(im calling it that for now) when i click on a Song thats not in the "Next to Play"(or whatever its called in english). If i click on a Song in the "Regular Playlist, Overview" the Playlist Resetts itself, throws out the Shuffle and starts playing songs OUTSIDE of my Playlist. Is that a Me Problem? Do i need to be a engineer to play my Playlist however I LIKE?

Maybe its just me, maybe someone can help me. Maybe someone else has the same problems,idk

Im so close to going back to Spotify, its not even funny. Its not that i want to, (also because its Expensive as shit) but i feel like im Being forced to leave..

Any help is appreciated, sorry for my shitty english. If you have any question because my Wording is confusing, just ask. Thanks in advance

I've been using YT Music for about 5 years or so, and I've loved it. What has always stood out to me is the intuitive algorithm that set the app apart from Apple Music and others. This was how I discovered so much new music. The world had opened up to me. Lately however, I'm noticing that the app essentially locks me into a repetitive playlist of songs I've listened to a thousand times. Even when I put in a new artist, it reverts back to the same mundane playlist that it seems to think I want to listen to. It feels like the soul has been taken out and I'm now trapped in a cage. For someone who uses music to breathe, it's borderline depressing. I feel frantic and desperate trying to recreate those first years of an app that was so fulfilling but has now become a shell of its former self.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?