Highlights
- Sync UI: New consistent UI across all platforms. UI that syncs with the vibe of the music
- Vibrant, breathing and alive player UI (smaller screen)
- Blur is the new background in playlist, album, bottom player (biggger screen)
- Smooth animations and adaptive UI
- Piped.video API support
- Localization & Translation: English, Bengali, Hindi, Japanese, French & German
- Credentials Encryption to securely store login information
- Playlist Generator (Spotify DJ but better)
- Personalized playlist recommendation including artist mixes, mood mixes, discover weekly etc…
- Desktop:
- Floating lyrics mini-player (always on top)
- System tray controls
- Minimize to system tray (Hide window)
- Windows OS media control support
- Playback:
- New
libmpvbasedmedia_kitenables gapless playback & fast stream download - Buffered length of track
- Queue with mixed local tracks and streaming tracks
- Search for alternative track source across Youtube Music and Youtube
- Sleep timer
- New
My understanding is that it uses the Spotify API (e.g., for track information, lyrics, playlists) but streams the actual audio from YouTube.