ShadeTube
Native Windows music player: your Spotify library, played from YouTube. No ads, no Premium. C++ / Direct2D, 11 languages.
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Details
- External ID
- 1392075712
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ShadeTube
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.14154724313820743
- Tags
- cpp, direct2d, music-player, spotify, spotube, windows, youtube
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video processing tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- native windows music player for youtube streams
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A desktop music player that reads Spotify playlists via public APIs and plays matched YouTube audio streams can be built by a solo developer using existing media libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 232 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #217 of 233 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- PPPlayer · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ultimate-spotify-client-tool · github · 2026-09-15 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- kraken-player · github · 2026-09-16 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Flutify · github · 2026-10-02 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Songify · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MiniTune · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- V1.14.0 · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- DeltaHarmonicaPlayer · github · 2026-09-15 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.