I made a minimal TUI Youtube Music client written in Rust - gytm

xuannhat999 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:44:04 +0000

I’ve been using Linux for over three months now, and I’ve fallen in love with TUI-based apps. I try to do almost everything inside the terminal—including listening to music.

Initially, I looked for a TUI app that could stream music directly from YouTube Music, but none of them quite fit my needs. So, I decided to build one myself.

Along the way, I stumbled upon some great existing alternatives like rmpc and termusic, but it was a bit too late—my project was already near completion. I decided to push through and finish it anyway, and now I’d love to share it with you all!

Here is the repository link, hope yall like it:

xuannhat999 / gytm

TUI based Youtube Music player

gytm: TUI based Youtube Music player

Stream Youtube Music from your terminal !

Demo

2026-06-08.10-09-47_new.mp4

Features

Personalized Content: Seamlessly fetch your private playlists/album using local cookie authentication.
Play / Save / Remove albums in your Youtube Music Library
Search Albums & Songs and stream it
Add / Remove Songs in Queue
When select to play a song in search result, it will automatically load list of related songs into Queue

Supported OS

Linux (Tested on Arch Linux)

Build Dependencies (Only required if building from source)

Rust & Cargo (1.85 or later)
pkg-config
openssl development headers
yt-dlp: for fetching stream URLs.
mpv : the core media engine.
sqlite: local database

Optional Dependencies

A Nerd Font: for icon rendering

Installation

- Build from source

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/xuannhat999/gytm.git

Install the binary

cd gytm
cargo install --bin gytm

- From AUR (Arch User Repository)
Using yay

yay -S

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