We all know that YouTube is an excellent source of free music streaming, especially for music lovers who don't want a paid music streaming service subscription.
Si you are looking for an application to listen to music on YouTube without using a browser, HeadSet can be a great option.
About Headset
Application It can be an excellent alternative for those who do not want to pay for the premium version of Spotify.
Regardless of the fact that YouTube has been able to handle the alternate task that it has been given, it is quite inconvenient to stream music from a browser whenever you want to do this.
Headset is a free cross-platform desktop application With which you can natively stream YouTube music directly from your desktop.
Headset App is a program that allows you to search and listen to songs of all kinds on your computer, that uses YouTube as a source to provide access to content.
The most interesting thing is that the developers created a song execution model that makes it not illegal to consume YouTube content in this way.
The app is ad-free and very easy to useJust type in the search engine the name of your song, artist, favorite band or the name of the album and select a result to start listening.
To create playlists, favorite songs and tune into radio stations, you have to sign up for a free account.
The player still offers you a "Radio" option to browse styles. By logging into the player you can organize collections and like tracks for easy access, just like on Spotify.
In addition to this, the application has one-click integration with the popular Last.fm music service with its famous Scrobble.
The best of your options is perhaps a radio powered by Reddit. On the popular network there are multiple subreddits dedicated to discovering and sharing new music or rediscovering gems from the past. The radio feature will allow you to treat music subreddits like personal radio stations.
How to install Over Headset in Ubuntu and derivatives?
Headset It is a cross-platform application so it is available for Linux (in .deb, .rpm and source code packages), it also has packages for Windows and macOS. You just have to access the page on the program's GitHub and download the latest stable version.
If you are interested in obtaining this application to be able to test it, you can follow the steps that we share below.
The first thing you should do is get the latest stable version of the application from the link above.
For this example we will take the current stable one at the moment which is 2.1.1 and which we can download from the terminal with the following command:
wget -O Headset.deb https://github.com/headsetapp/headset-electron/releases/download/v2.1.1/headset_2.1.1_amd64.deb
Once the download is done, we can install the package with our preferred package manager or from the terminal with the following command:
sudo dpkg -i Headset.deb
And that's it, we can start using this application in our system.
If you have problems with execution, you can fix the dependencies with the following command:
sudo apt -f install
After accepting the Google and YouTube license terms that the program informs you, you will be able to listen to the songs.
The player itself is very simple to understand and has basic functions that any self-respecting player has.
While this app does an admirable job of turning YouTube into an easy-to-use music streaming service.
We can also say that the application has some limitations, such as the need to display a video window (which can be minimized) to allow playback (according to YouTube rules).
The program also reports that lower quality videos will be used to save bandwidth, but that the sound quality will remain good.
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