YesPlayMusic - A Visually Appealing Third-Party NetEase Cloud Music Player

A cross-platform third-party NetEase Cloud Music client built with Vue.js, renowned for its excellent interface design and rich features, offering NetEase Cloud Music users a cleaner and more powerful desktop playback experience.

Official Website & Download

• Supported Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux

✨ Key Features

🎨 Interface & Experience

• Visually Appealing Design: Offers a modern, clean, and elegant user interface with outstanding visual experience.
• Light/Dark Mode: Supports Light and Dark themes, with automatic switching based on system settings.
• Touch Bar Support (macOS): Provides convenient playback controls for MacBook users with Touch Bar.
• PWA Support: Can be installed as a "desktop app" via browsers (e.g., Chrome/Edge), delivering a near-native experience.

🎵 Core Playback & Music Library

• Full Account Login: Supports login via NetEase Cloud Music QR code, phone number, or email, syncing your personal playlists, favorites, and recommendations.
• Lossless Audio Playback: Supports high-quality and lossless (Hi-Res) audio playback after login.
• Music Cloud Disk: Enables management and playback of songs uploaded to NetEase Cloud Music's cloud storage.
• Unlocked Grayed-Out Songs: Integrates UnblockNeteaseMusic functionality to automatically replace grayed-out tracks (due to copyright restrictions) with alternative audio sources (e.g., QQ Music, Migu Music), significantly expanding the available music library.
• MV Playback: Supports high-definition MV playback for songs.
• Dynamic Lyrics Display: Provides accurate scrolling lyrics with support for translated lyrics.

📻 Personalization & Discovery

• Daily Recommendations & Private FM: Fully supports NetEase Cloud Music’s “Daily Recommendations” and “Private FM” features.
• Daily Auto Check-In: Automatically completes daily check-in tasks for both mobile and desktop after login.
• No Social Distractions: Focuses purely on music playback, removing non-core features such as social feeds, live streaming, and game centers from the official client for a clean listening environment.

⚙️ Advanced & Extended Features

• Last.fm Scrobbling: Supports syncing playback history to Last.fm.
• Customizable Shortcuts: Allows customization of both in-app and global keyboard shortcuts for improved efficiency.
• Mpris Support (Linux): Supports Mpris standards on Linux, enabling integration with system media controls.
• Overseas Playback Support: Overseas users can typically play music directly after logging into their NetEase account without requiring additional proxies.
• Multi-Source Audio Support: Allows users to configure additional audio sources (e.g., YouTube, requires self-installation of yt-dlp).

✅ Key Advantages

1. Open Source & Free, Secure & Transparent: Open-source under the MIT license with publicly available code — no ads, no bundled software, ensuring greater user privacy protection.
2. Consistent Cross-Platform Experience: Delivers nearly identical high-quality experiences across macOS, Windows, and Linux, with consistent design and functionality.
3. Clean & Distraction-Free: Focuses solely on core music playback and management, stripping away redundant social features — ideal for users seeking a pure music listening experience.
4. Powerful Unlocking Capability: Effectively resolves the issue of missing songs in playlists due to copyright restrictions by leveraging third-party audio sources — a major advantage over the official client.
5. Modern Technology Stack: Built using modern frontend technologies like Vue.js, ensuring fast responsiveness and smooth interface interactions.
6. Flexible Deployment Options: In addition to downloading the desktop client, tech-savvy users can easily deploy the web version on platforms like Vercel for access anytime, anywhere.

📦 Installation (macOS)

2. Using Homebrew (Recommended):

   brew install --cask yesplaymusic
   

YesPlayMusic has become a preferred third-party desktop client for many NetEase Cloud Music users, thanks to its outstanding design, enhanced core features, and open-source transparency — especially notable for solving song copyright restrictions and providing a clean, distraction-free playback experience.