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YouTube Music
YouTube Music is Google's music streaming service, successor to Google Play 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.
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.
- 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.
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- ReviewAsk your agent to check the product skill, evidence and alternatives.
- BuildGive the skill to your coding agent and build in your own project.
- VerifyRun the checks for your implementation and review the result.
Evidence
Sources
Provenance
- Catalog record — catalog/products.jsonl
- Research dossier — research/companies/google/products/youtube-music.md
- REA web-surface report — catalog/rea/google/youtube-music.md
- Open-source skill file — catalog/skills/google/youtube-music.md
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.