Orchard 3.2.3

YouTube Music,
but for desktop.

A music client with its own queue, synced lyrics, release tracking, and transitions shaped by the music itself.

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Built with

Orchard 2.4 desktop interface showing home recommendations, library navigation, the play queue, and the persistent player

Everything Orchard handles.

The YouTube Music catalog stays familiar. The desktop experience does not.

Account and browse

Browser sign-in, cookie-backed auth, home, library, playlists, artists, albums, and search.

Playback

Audio-first stream resolution, queue state, history, media keys, shuffle, repeat, and resume behavior.

Lyrics

Synced and unsynced lyric providers with timing-aware display and full-screen presentation.

Mixing

Track-end analysis, queue ordering, and automatic crossfade.

Presence

Discord Rich Presence, media session metadata, artwork fallback, and desktop shell polish.

Distribution

Native-feeling Windows, Linux, and universal macOS packages published through the Orchard release channel.

The app in action.

Word-synced lyricsFull-screen presentation stays timed to playback.

Custom artist page in Orchard — **Artist pages**Custom artwork and release context without leaving playback.

Search results in Orchard with the play queue visible — **Search with context**Songs, albums, artists, and playlists beside the live queue.

Motion artworkAnimated album art renders directly inside the release view.

Free software, and it stays that way.

From Orchard 4.0.0 onward, Orchard is released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license. You are free to use, modify, and redistribute Orchard for any purpose, provided you pass the same freedoms on and share your source. Releases 3.0.0 through 3.x were published under the MIT license and remain available under it.

github.com/sfg5453/orchardRead the code and release history