Meld

Meld is an Android music client that brings together the best of Spotify and YouTube Music. It uses your Spotify account to power personalized recommendations, search, and home content — while streaming audio through YouTube Music.

The name "Meld" reflects the core idea: melding two music platforms into a single, unified listening experience.

Why Meld?

- Spotify's personalization — Your top tracks, favorite artists, and curated playlists from Spotify drive the recommendations - YouTube Music's catalog — Access YouTube Music's vast library for streaming, including rare tracks, live performances, and remixes - No setup required — Just log in with your Spotify account directly in the app. No developer dashboard, no Client ID, no extra steps - No Spotify Premium required — Meld uses Spotify's data APIs (not streaming), so a free Spotify account is all you need - Built-in recommendation engine — A custom algorithm builds personalized queues using your Spotify listening history, without relying on deprecated API endpoints

Features

Spotify Integration

- Spotify as search source — Search results powered by Spotify, with automatic YouTube Music matching for playback - Spotify as home source — Home screen populated with your Spotify top tracks, top artists, playlists, and new releases - Spotify-only mode — Option to hide all YouTube-based content and show exclusively Spotify-powered sections on the home screen - Smart queue generation — Custom recommendation engine that builds radio-like queues from your Spotify taste profile (top tracks/artists across 3 time ranges, genre similarity, popularity matching) - Spotify library sync — Access your Spotify playlists and liked songs directly in the app - Spotify-to-YouTube matching — Fuzzy matching algorithm with local caching for fast, accurate track resolution - Manual match override — If a Spotify track is matched to the wrong YouTube video, you can manually fix it by pasting the correct YouTube link. The override is saved permanently and takes priority over automatic matching - Spotify album browsing — Dedicated album screen for Spotify albums with full tracklist, metadata, and one-tap playback - Hybrid profile cache — 3-tier data strategy (GraphQL → REST API → local DB) with persistent caching for instant home screen loading on app restart, automatic rate-limit handling, and parallel artist image enrichment - Artist navigation — Tap any Spotify artist on the home screen to navigate directly to their YouTube Music artist page

Core Music Features

- Play any song or video from YouTube Music - Background playback - Personalized quick picks - Library management - Listen together with friends - Download and cache songs for offline playback - Search for songs, albums, artists, videos and playlists - Live lyrics - YouTube Music account login support - Syncing of songs, artists, albums and playlists, from and to your account - Skip silence - Import playlists - Audio normalization - Adjust tempo/pitch - Local playlist management - Reorder songs in playlist or queue - Home screen widget with playback controls - Light / Dark / Black / Dynamic theme - Sleep timer - Material 3 design - Discord Rich Presence

Disclaimer

This project and its contents are not affiliated with, funded, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way associated with YouTube, Google LLC, Spotify AB, or any of their affiliates and subsidiaries.

Any trademark, service mark, trade name, or other intellectual property rights used in this project are owned by the respective owners.

License

GNU General Public License 3.0