w0y

1. v0.0.3 beta-2October 14, 2026Latest

   Hairline grows up

   • Floating dock: mini player and tabs in one flat island, a thin line follows the active tab and track progress runs around the perimeter.
   • App background of your choice: grid, black, cover light, aurora or your own picture.
   • Settings in tabs: every setting is a card, the underline follows the tab.
   • “Yours” became bento tiles with counters; playlists get a full look: cover, colour, icon, description, plus folders.
   • Seasonal events: pumpkins for Halloween, snowflakes and trees for New Year.

   Release notes →
2. v0.0.3 beta-1October 11, 2026

   The Hairline look and your own files

   • Hairline: thin lines instead of pixels and glass, Unbounded and mono labels, a floating dock, a progress ring around the cover.
   • Your own files: mp3 and wav from the phone, with title, artist, album and cover edited in the app.
   • Lyrics from every source, a delay setting, and video instead of the cover for clip tracks.
   • Visualizer: Lines, Orbit, Terrain.
   • The Linux version caught up with the phone: two looks, phone-style settings, hotkeys and control from the terminal.

   Release notes →
3. v0.0.2 beta-2October 4, 2026

   Real liquid glass

   • Liquid glass in Smooth: the bottom bars blur and slightly refract what is under them.
   • A split bottom bar and grouped settings.
   • Stand mode: brightness and slider, a cover view, a flipped view.
   • Fixed: playback and downloads on SABR streams, foreign recommendations in playlists.

   Release notes →
4. v0.0.2 beta-1October 4, 2026

   Two looks, lyrics and downloads

   • Two looks: Pixel and Smooth, switched in settings without a restart.
   • Full-screen lyrics, a visualizer instead of the cover and stand mode.
   • Downloads redone: a queue, failure reasons, saving as MP3 at 320 kbit/s.
   • Listening stats and playlists you can drag to reorder.

   Release notes →
5. v0.0.1 beta-1October 1, 2026

   First public beta

   • Search, background playback, queue, sleep timer.
   • Google account sign-in: playlists, likes and subscriptions both ways.
   • Downloads, your own sound per track, lyrics from LRCLIB.
   • Speed dial, stats, a widget, clean mode and the Linux version.

   Release notes →

1. 01

   Quick start

   The next track is prefetched, stream links are cached and playback starts on a minimal buffer. The app measures tap-to-sound time itself and shows it on the home screen.

2. 02

   Hairline

   Thin lines, sharp corners, one hero per screen and a floating dock. The older Pixel and Smooth looks stay in Settings → Look, and Hairline has its own options: line weight, corners, cover shape, case, density, motion.

3. 03

   Your own sound per track

   Speed, pitch and reverb (SLOWED, SPED UP) are applied to the original file and belong to that track only. One button puts everything back.

4. 04

   Your own files

   Add mp3, wav and other audio from the phone, edit title, artist, album and cover inside the app. They go into playlists and speed dial. If a file stops opening, the same track from the catalogue plays.

5. 05

   Lyrics

   Full-screen lyrics line by line, with translation and an adjustable delay. LRCLIB first, then NetEase, lyrics.ovh and Genius. Searching beyond LRCLIB can be turned off.

6. 06

   Video and visualizer

   For tracks that are really videos you can swap the cover for the video while the sound keeps coming from the same stream. Visualizer: Lines, Orbit, Terrain.

7. 07

   Offline downloads

   Tracks, albums and playlists into app storage, a “Wi‑Fi only” limit and a button that copies them to Music/w0y music. Saving as MP3 at 320 kbit/s with cover and tags.

8. 08

   Account sync

   Pick one of the Google accounts on the phone and confirm on Google’s page, or paste a cookie by hand. Playlists, likes and subscriptions sync both ways.

9. 09

   Speed dial, stats and a widget

   What you play most sits on the home screen. Listening stats are computed on the device and a widget shows the current track.

10. 10

    Linux version

    The same ideas on Compose Desktop: two looks, remappable hotkeys, control of the running app from the terminal (w0y --do play_pause), MPRIS and notifications. Sound plays through mpv.

• Library, history, settings, downloads and stats are stored on the device. The project has no server of its own, no analytics and no crash reports.

• Requests go only where they have to: music.youtube.com (search, library, stream links), accounts.google.com (the sign-in page only), lrclib.net (lyrics) and fallback Piped servers if the main path gave no audio.

• If LRCLIB has no lyrics and “search lyrics everywhere” is on, artist and title go to music.163.com, lyrics.ovh and genius.com. Lyrics translation (translate.googleapis.com) works only if you turn it on.

• The sign-in cookie stays on the device. Treat it like a password. The code is open under AGPL-3.0: everything listed is visible in the files.

• Account sync reads YouTube pages the way the web version does, and YouTube can change them without warning.

• MP3 at 320 kbit/s does not improve the source: YouTube audio is compressed harder. 320 only avoids losing more in conversion.

• Lyrics from Genius and NetEase are read from their public pages and may stop working when those change. They can be from a different version of the song.

• Video goes over SABR. A known issue in this beta: on some tracks the picture stays black while the sound plays normally.

• The Linux interface is in Russian only.

• There is no web version and none is planned.

w0y is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by YouTube or Google. YouTube and YouTube Music are trademarks of their owners.