A desktop music player built with Electron that streams audio from YouTube Music. Clean UI, no accounts, no ads.

Warning

The app is still constantly being worked on and may contain a few bugs or experimental features, use at your own discretion.

Features

• Search — Find songs, artists, and albums via YouTube Music
• Playback — Stream audio directly with play/pause, seek, skip, volume
• Queue — View and manage upcoming tracks, drag reorder
• Smart Queue — Auto-fills with similar songs when the queue runs out
• Shuffle & Repeat — Shuffle queue, repeat one or all
• Playlists — Create, rename, delete, and add/remove tracks. Custom or auto-generated covers. Drag & drop songs into sidebar playlists
• Liked Songs — Heart any track to save it
• Synced Lyrics — Spotify-like synced lyrics from multi-source
• Artist Pages — Top songs, discography, monthly audience, fans also like, and live performances
• Follow Artists — Follow artists and see their recent releases on the home page
• Music Videos — Watch music videos in-app
• Discord Rich Presence — Show what you're listening to on Discord
• Cloud Sync — Sign in with email to sync your library across devices
• Themes — Built-in color themes
• Keyboard Shortcuts — Full keyboard control (see below)

Screenshots

Getting Started

You'll need Node.js (v18+) and yt-dlp installed on your system.

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/nyakuoff/Snowify.git
cd snowify

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run
npm start

Requirements

Dependency	Purpose
Electron	Desktop app shell
ytmusic-api	YouTube Music search, artist & album data
yt-dlp	Extracts audio stream URLs (must be in PATH)
synclyrics	Synced lyrics from Musixmatch, LrcLib, Netease
Firebase	Authentication & cloud sync

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
Space	Play / Pause
← / →	Seek backward / forward 5s
Ctrl+← / Ctrl+→	Previous / Next track
↑ / ↓	Volume up / down
/	Focus search

Tech Stack

• Electron — Desktop framework
• ytmusic-api — YouTube Music metadata
• yt-dlp — Audio stream extraction
• synclyrics — Synced lyrics (Musixmatch, LrcLib, Netease)
• Firebase — Auth & Firestore cloud sync
• Discord RPC — Rich presence integration

Roadmap

• Outdated

Legal

This app is for personal and educational use only. It streams content from publicly available sources. I am not responsible for how anyone chooses to use it.

Contributing

If you find bugs, have ideas, or want to clean something up, feel free to open an issue or a PR. All skill levels welcome.

Translating

Snowify supports multiple languages through JSON translation files in src/locales/. To contribute a translation:

1. Copy the English file — Duplicate src/locales/en.json and rename it to your language's ISO 639-1 code (e.g. nl.json for Dutch).

2. Translate the values — Each file is a flat "key": "value" JSON object. Translate only the values, never the keys. Keep any {{placeholder}} variables intact:

   "home.greeting.morning": "Goedemorgen",
   "queue.trackCount": "{{count}} nummers"

3. Register the language — Add the new language code to the SUPPORTED array in src/renderer/i18n.js add a <option> for it in the language selector in src/renderer/index.html and add it to the supported languages in the README.

4. Open a PR — Submit your translation file along with the registration changes.

Currently supported: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Russian, Hindi.

Note

AI Disclaimer: Parts of this project were assisted or written by AI. If that's something you're not comfortable with, no hard feelings, I understand and I don't force anyone to use it. The code may have flaws. If you spot something that could be better, contributions are very welcome. I'm still learning and would appreciate the help.