YMusic

YouTube music player app

YMusic is a free music application for mobile by developer KDEV. It's a media player that can be used to play locally stored audio files, as well as videos streaming from YouTube. With the latter, it lets them listen to audio streams even when outside of the app.

With the help of the YMusic app, users will finally be able to enjoy listening to their favorite YouTube videos podcast-style as they are playing in the background. It also serves as a capable music player for their stored media with various playback features and options to configure.

Long-requested feature

YouTube is arguably the largest and most popular video-sharing platform in the world today. With billions of users and hundreds of millions of videos, there is a lot of content available for consumption. Despite its popularity, it still lacks one feature that fans have long been requesting, background playback. Enter YMusic, an app that was specifically made to provide a solution to this shortcoming.

This app serves two purposes, with the first being a music player to play your locally stored files. Second and more importantly, it functions as a YouTube video player. Its main page is dedicated to a discover section wherein you can see the latest and trending videos from the platform. Change to any region you want and even enable closed captions if you want content from other countries.

Choose a video to be downloaded and saved to your gallery for playback. If you jump back to your home screen to do other tasks, it will continue to play in the background. A couple of things before proceeding, though. The UI design is already a little outdated, and second, it consumes a lot of system resources, so it won't do well on lower-powered devices.

What everyone wanted all along

It was a long ignored request, but it took someone else to address the concern that YouTube won't. With YMusic, you can finally enjoy watching, or in this case, listening to your favorite videos on the platform. It's easy to use and works as intended. It could use a UI redesign and some further performance optimizations, but aside from those, this is worth checking out.