YTSwag: Better YouTube Music (BETA)

Add nice features to YouTube Music! Lyrics, utilities, themes and more!
What is YTSwag: Better YouTube Music (BETA)?
YTSwag: Better YouTube Music (BETA) is a Chrome extension designed to improve the functionality of YouTube Music. It offers features such as lyrics from YouTube CC and Genius, hiding and showing subtitles globally, hiding and showing the queue, double clicking songs to play them, and a picture-in-picture mode for music videos. The extension also plans to add Discord Rich Presence in the future. YTSwag is an open-source project, and its source code can be found on GitHub. Disclaimer: The extension accesses Genius.com for lyrics retrieval, so users must comply with Genius's Terms of Use.

Extension stats

Users: 471 ▼ -5
Rating: 3.41 (17)
Version: 0.4.0 beta (Last updated: 2020-06-03)
Creation date: 2020-06-02
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://genius.com/*
  • https://video.google.com/*
  • storage
Size: 4.18M

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Extension summary

This extension is aimed to make YouTube Music better, by adding features such as lyrics, Discord Rich Presence (planned) and more!

Current Features:

  1. Lyrics (From YouTube CC and Genius)
  2. Hide/show subtitles (globally)
  3. Hide/show queue
  4. Double clicking song makes it play
  5. Picture-in-Picture (PIP) mode for music videos (can be viewed accross multiple tabs and even windows!)

This is an OSS project. Source code at: https://github.com/FadedCoder/YTSwag

For now, lyrics is fetched in 2 major ways:

  1. The YouTube video CC is presented in a lyrics format, or, as a fallback,
  2. Lyrics are fetched from Genius.com
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User reviews

by Abd Al-Rahman Jodeh, 2024-08-02

Great looking app on pictures, but on my pc all of 2 themes is very bugged. They're sized down and buttons are stacked on top of each other. My screen resolution is 1920x1080p. I hope this will be patched soon.
by Szczepan Wiecha, 2024-05-09

by Someone Notswede, 2023-11-16
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Extension safety

Risk impact

YTSwag: Better YouTube Music (BETA) requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

YTSwag: Better YouTube Music (BETA) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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