YouTube Music

YouTube Music is Google's music streaming service, successor to Google Play Music.

Alternative coveragepartial
Product skillready for your agent
Company
Google (google)
Product type
media_streaming
Categories
music-streaming
Official site
https://music.youtube.com/ ↗
Catalog ID
youtube-music

At a glance

YouTube Music is Google's music streaming service, successor to Google Play Music.

Catalog categories: music-streaming.

Catalogued capability areas: - On-demand streaming of a licensed catalogue - Personalized recommendations - Library uploads

This summary reflects the catalog record, not a complete product specification. Verify intended users, end-to-end workflows, supported platforms, edge cases, data handling, and constraints against cited sources. Treat capability labels as research leads until that verification is complete.

  • On-demand streaming of a licensed catalogue
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Library uploads

Open-source alternative

2 candidate projects in the landscape. A candidate may cover all, part, or none of what YouTube Music does — read the coverage and gaps below.

Navidrome

GPL-3.0

Self-hosted music streaming server for your own library.

Funkwhale

AGPL-3.0

Self-hosted music sharing and streaming.

Coverage and gaps

Alternative coverage

Partial. Streaming your own library is solved (Navidrome, Funkwhale); the licensed catalogue is not.

The gap

Self-hosted servers stream a library you own; the licensed catalogue and recommendation engine are not replicable in open source.

Build this product with your agent

This Markdown file is the coding-agent skill for YouTube Music. Give it to your agent in your project; it guides research, reuse decisions, implementation and verification.

Get the YouTube Music build skill

rae youtube-music --out ./youtube-music-agent

Generate the skill with the RAE CLI, or download the Markdown skill. The source skill is also available in the catalog.

  • agent-kit.mdDownloadable Markdown skill with product-specific instructions for your coding agent.available
  • skill.mdGenerated copy of the same product skill — rae youtube-music --out ./youtube-music-agent.in kit
  • mcp.jsonOptional MCP server config — rae youtube-music --out ./youtube-music-agent.in kit
  • Product workspaceOptional starting workspace for your agent — rae build product youtube-music --out ./youtube-music.
  1. ChoosePick the product you want to build.
  2. ReviewAsk your agent to check the product skill, evidence and alternatives.
  3. BuildGive the skill to your coding agent and build in your own project.
  4. VerifyRun the checks for your implementation and review the result.

Evidence

Sources

Provenance

Next step

Give the YouTube Music skill to your coding agent in your project. Ask it to evaluate Navidrome ↗ against your needs, reuse what fits, then follow the skill's build and verification instructions.

Give the product skill to your coding agent in the project where you want to build. Optional starter workspace: rae build product youtube-music --out ./youtube-music. CLI reference.