A YouTube Music client for Android and Desktop I've been working on since August 2022. I've implemented useful queue manipulation features, as well as language and metadata customisation options.

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How it started

Before SpMp I had been using the official YouTube Music client on both desktop and mobile, more or less exclusively. Over time, however, I grew less and less patient because of reasons including (but not limited to) these:

Complete lack of customisability
Very little creativity or flair in its visual or functional design
Missing lyrics for most songs, and (at the time) no synchronisation
Bloated and not open-source
Desktop/browser version is particularly buggy and unpolished

An example of that last one: When you try to remove a song from the queue, YouTube Music will sometimes decide to instead remove the current song instead. This happened as I was writing this, so I thought I'd mention it.

I tried a few alternatives, including Spotify and ViMusic, but nothing ticked all of the boxes I was hoping to fill.

While I did briefly consider forking a project like ViMusic, I felt like there was so much that I wanted to add that I would be better off starting with a blank canvas and coming out with a better understanding of what I’d created. And surely it would only take me a few months anyway (this was in August of 2022).

How it’s going

In early-mid 2023, after well over half a year of development, I completely stopped using YouTube Music on Android in favour of SpMp. Hopefully, I’ll be able to leave it behind on desktop as well once I complete SpMp’s own desktop version.

You can read more about SpMp’s development in ./journey.

What does “SpMp” stand for?

SpMp was originally a combination the first two letters of my old username “spectreseven1138” and “music player”. Hence:

Sp + Mp = SpMp = spectreseven1138 music player

Very creative, I know.