CLUSTER DESKTOP-FILES-MUSIC · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-09-25
YouTube music downloader apps
This cluster consists of desktop applications that search for and download music from YouTube (including YouTube Music) as audio files, with some adding metadata tagging and cover art. The cluster's dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from, with only three dated entries. Among the members with activity signals, tunedrop leads with 2 stars, followed by LumeFetch with 1 star and cadenza with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 9 hobby · 6 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01tunedrop2★14 days—hobbyWindows and Linux app that searches for songs and downloads them as MP3 files with title, artist, and cover art.
- 02LumeFetch1★29 dayslivehand-codedhobbyDesktop app that downloads media from multiple platforms, manages playlists, and matches Spotify tracks to YouTube sources.
- 03fripper1★12 dayslivehobbyDesktop app that downloads music from pasted streaming links by building a queue and saving tracks in original or converted quality.
- 04MultiMP30★14 daysliveai-builthobbyDesktop app for batch downloading and organizing audio files from YouTube and local sources with quality selection.
- 05cadenza0★21 days—hobbyDesktop app that searches YouTube for songs or albums and downloads them as tagged audio files with cover art.
- 06Top-tracks-to-mp30★5 days—hobbyDesktop application that downloads a music act's top tracks from YouTube Music as MP3 files for offline listening.
- 07music-rance0★18 days—hand-codedhobbyDesktop app that searches for and downloads music as MP3 files from YouTube.
- 08moa0★1 molivehand-codedhobbyDesktop app that converts YouTube videos into m4a audio files with embedded cover art and metadata for offline music libraries.
- 09youtube-to-mp30★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that converts YouTube links into MP3 files with title, artist, and cover art embedded.
- 10Playlifin0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop tool that converts YouTube Music playlists into matching Jellyfin playlists from locally downloaded media.
- 11youplay-base0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceApp that lets users search, download, and play music from YouTube.
- 12headset0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceApp for discovering and collecting music videos from YouTube for offline listening.
- 13ytm-dlp-gui0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop application for downloading music from YouTube Music as audio files.
- 14youtube-music-uploader0★1 moliveopen sourceUtility that uploads music files to a YouTube Music library.
- 15yt-music-archive0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTool that downloads YouTube music, stores track IDs in an archive, and restores music from that archive.
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