Yup, tried it for a week straight now on both desktop and android, and although a great application, it isn't quite ready for me to transfer to it fully at least. But defo keeping a close eye on the development ๐
I've been using this for a little while now on Android. I believe it works by using Spotify track data and your account there to then use YouTube's audio to feed your the music you ask for. It's seamlessly done. So far it's meeting all my streaming music needs, even if it is sometimes a little uneven in performance.
Given the revelation that it hooks into Spotify to get playlists etc, I really wish there wasn't that strong of a dependency on Spotify, and that I could just search for songs and start playing.
I was hoping for more YouTube music player, and less Spotify.
I have Spotify Premium which I pay for, and the desktop client is very fast and snappy to play songs. SpotTube is OK, but it isn't as snappy as Spotify. For something that is free, that is absolutely fine, but the fact it requires Spotify for playlist etc...
I definitely get why. Spotify does playlist generation like no other, and it is the biggest platform by far. But I kind of wish I had a version that wasn't all about the algorithms.
Also, the way you "login" to Spotify on the desktop is incredibly user un-friendly at best, and incredibly brittle at worst. Copying and pasting a cookie that Spotify uses shouldn't be used as a way to login to any service, like, at all. And if Spotify are smart, they'll break this functionality within a month or so using something like Fingerprint.js to identify which device the session belongs to, thus invalidating the session.
I am not sure how legal this is, since Spotify exposes the API only for premium customers. But have a look at this project that is written in Rust and uses the aforementioned API to stream
I've seen some some other projects that scrape Spotify instead to get their curated playlists, then use Piped & Invidious instances to identify and stream the track file from YouTube
I like it a lot, but for some reason almost all players on Android, that make use of YT have this issue, it stops playing track or two randomly. And then I have to manually put it to the next song or try to launch that particular track several times. Harmony Music and Blackhole do not have this issue. Recomendations aren't there though. I have less issues on Linux version.