Drift

A music streaming client using Vim keybinds built in Rust.

Stream your favourite music from YouTube Music — all in one client, in your terminal.

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Features

• YouTube Music streaming — search and stream tracks directly from YouTube Music via yt-dlp and mpv
• Vim-style keybinds — navigate with j/k, enter commands with :, quit with q
• Queue management — add, remove, reorder, and clear tracks in your queue
• Playlists — save, load, append, and delete named playlists; import from YouTube/YouTube Music URLs
• Shuffle & repeat — toggle shuffle and cycle through off / repeat-all / repeat-one modes
• Volume & seek control — adjust volume and seek with configurable step sizes
• Session restore — automatically restores your queue and playback position on next launch
• Artist search — drill into an artist's discography from the results view
• Command palette — full :command interface (:search, :play, :volume, :seek, :save, :load, :import, and more)
• Autoplay — optionally keep playing through results when the queue ends
• TOML config — persistent config at ~/.local/share/drift/config.toml; comments are preserved across restarts

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Installation

Dependencies

• mpv — audio playback
• yt-dlp — YouTube stream extraction
• Rust (build only)

Install them with your package manager, e.g. on Arch:

sudo pacman -S mpv yt-dlp

Build & install

git clone https://github.com/socatlolmeow/drift.git
cd drift
sudo make install

This installs drift to /usr/local/bin. To install to /usr/bin instead:

sudo make install PREFIX=/usr

Other make targets

Command	Description
make	Build (debug skipped, release only)
make build	Same as above
sudo make install	Build and install to $PREFIX/bin
sudo make uninstall	Remove the installed binary
make clean	Remove build artifacts

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License

Drift is FOSS, released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.