BetterYTM

Lots of configurable layout and user experience improvements for YouTube Music

Supported Languages: 🇩🇪 German, 🇺🇸 English, 🇩🇪 German, 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷 French, 🇮🇳 Hindi, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇵🇹 Portuguese, 🇨🇳 Chinese (simpl.)

Features • Installation • Plugins • Support • Development • Attributions • Disclaimers

Features:

All of these can be toggled and configured in the configuration menu.

• Layout & User Experience:
  • Open any song's lyrics on genius.com which generally has higher quality than YouTube's providers
  • Quick actions on songs in a queue, to quickly open their lyrics or remove them from the queue
  • Set a custom size and step resolution for the volume slider and show a percentage label next to it
  • Improvements to clickability of song titles and thumbnails when wanting to open them in a new tab
  • Remember the time of the last played song to resume playback after reloading or reopening the tab
  • Quickly scroll to the currently active song in the queue by clicking a button
  • Remove the tracking parameter from URLs in the share menu
  • Automatically close permanent notifications
  • Remove the premium tab in the sidebar
• Input / Interaction:
  • Use arrow keys to skip forward or backward by a configurable amount of time
  • Press number keys to skip to a percentage of the currently playing song
  • Press a hotkey on a video/song to switch between YouTube and YouTube Music, while keeping the video time
  • Prevent the "unsaved data" popup that sometimes appears before leaving the site

... and these are just the notable features, there are many more smaller improvements and bugfixes!

To toggle and configure features, after installing the userscript, click the "BetterYTM" text under the logo to open the configuration menu.
Alternatively or if you disabled the watermark, you can open it through the popover menu opened by clicking your avatar in the top right corner.

My work relies on donations, so if you like this userscript please consider supporting development ❤️

Installation:

Requires a userscript manager browser extension.
I really recommend ViolentMonkey: Firefox • Chrome • Edge

Once you have the extension, click the install button at the top of this page!

Note: the unsafeWindow grant is required due to limitations in some browsers, see this issue for more info.

To install the latest development build click here (note: the script will not auto-update to the next release version)

Plugins:

BetterYTM supports plugin userscripts that can be installed in parallel and can make use of BetterYTM's pre-existing API.

Currently there are no available plugins, but you can submit an issue using the plugin submission template so it will be listed here.
Also refer to the plugin creation guide for more information on how to use the API to create a plugin.

Support:

If you have any questions, issues, or feature requests, please open an issue here.
You can also join the Discord server and ask your questions there or just hang out with other community members and me:

Development:

This project is based on my extensive template for making a userscript with TypeScript and many modern language and convenience features.
Check it out here if you want to make your own userscripts!

For information on how to contribute to this project or how to develop a plugin for BetterYTM, see the contributing guide

Attributions:

This userscript depends on these runtime libraries:

• marked
• nanoevents
• @sv443-network/userutils

For development dependencies, please refer to devDependencies in package.json

Icons:

• Most icons are from Material Icons
• For external icon attributions, see assets/external/

Disclaimers:

• I am not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube, Google, Alphabet, Genius, or anyone else.
• I do not own any third party icons, I just re-host them here for better stability and availability.
• I do not intend to ever collect any data about you, everything in this script is done and stored locally on your device or on the site the script runs on.
• I can't guarantee this software is without flaws. If something bad happens, I don't accept blame. I do however accept bug reports and feature requests.

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