Developer builds Auricle, a native Windows music player for YouTube Music

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A developer frustrated with the high resource usage of mainstream music apps like Spotify and Apple Music on Windows decided to build his own player called Auricle. The app targets YouTube Music's catalogue and is built using a native UI framework rather than Electron or web-based approaches, with goals of low resource consumption and a clean interface. Key challenges beyond basic playback included stream extraction, queue management, and upstream service compatibility. Distributing an early build revealed a separate hurdle: the unsigned installer triggered antivirus flags, even though scans of the installed executables returned clean results. The project is currently Windows-only, with the developer planning to study its real-world performance before considering a Linux port.

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