In Operation
Here’s an image showing AudioTube in action.
Launch the app, and search for an artist, album or song. Then press play. Voilà. Listen to the audio without a potentially distracting accompanying video.
Features include:
- Simple UI.
- Mark tracks, albums, and artists as favorites.
- Library section which shows your favorites.
- Attractive artwork
- Custom playlists.
- Shuffle playback.
- Append a track to the playback queue.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- MPRIS integration.
Summary
AudioTube is a rather snazzy client for YouTube music that doesn’t need a Google account to listen to music. And you don’t need to have an account on YouTube Music either.
AudioTube uses KDE Frameworks, xcb windowing system, Qt, and ytmusicapi (an unofficial API for YouTube music).
There’s some functionality that users would like adding such as the ability to download tracks and scrobbling support.
What do you think of AudioTube? Share your comments in the section below.
Website: invent.kde.org/multimedia/audiotube
Support:
Developer: Jonah Brüchert
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
AudioTube is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation and Summary
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AudioTube is ok, its interface is a bit laggy on my system.