hikaary / ymcli

CLI player for yandex music

Ymcli: open source Yandex.Music client / music player

Uses unoffical Yandex.Music Api

Installation

• See releases

• AUR (from source code), see package

  yay -S ymcli 

• Compile for Linux (from source code)

  Ymcli has been tested on python 3.11. You can try running it on a lower version.

  You will need python to run it, but it is not listed in the installation below.

  #Install system dependencies Arch-like
  sudo pacman -S vlc 

  # Install system dependencies Rhel-like
  yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
  yum install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-6.noarch.rpm
  yum install vlc vlc-core

  # Install system dependencies Debian-like
  sudo apt install vlc 

  # Clone source 
  git clone https://github.com/hikaary/ymcli
  cd ymcli 

  # Build 
  python setup.py install

  # Run app from poetry
  poetry install && poetry shell
  poetry run python -m ymcli

First run

A token will be requested at the first startup. ou can find out about getting the token here

Config & Logs

• Config file - ~/.config/ymcli/config.ini
• Log file - ~/.local/ymcli/ymcli.log

Key actions

Key	Action
K	Move cursor up
J	Move cursor down
ENTER	Select
Space	Play/Pause
B	Back to previous menu
UP	Volume up
DOWN	Volume down
RIGHT	Fast forward the track by 5 seconds
LEFT	Rewind the track back 5 seconds
R	Repeat track
N	Skip track
P	Previous track
L	Like now playing track
D	Dislike now playing track

Dependencies (excluding python dependencies)

• python 3.11
• vlc 3.0.20