I built Youta: TUI for YouTube, Yandex Music, local files (good for audiobooks), radio (with current track name and ability to record in original quality), podcasts, and other sources.

Integration with Wikidata.

Heterogenous history (history from multiple sources), playlists.

Audio only. Playing backend: mpv, yt-dlp. With YouTube Shorts - and with the toggle to disable them.

Low on system resources: on Rust, instant startup. The code is generated by Codex. Usually I run in TTY - so no fan noise on my old laptop. Single executable. With Gentoo ebuilds - source and binary. i686 binary is also available - good for your old hardware.

Ability to leave private notes.

Integration with AcoustID - so it can fingerprint your local files and provide Wikidata links.

Render local files artworks, youtube thumbnails.

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Ability to get YouTube comments, LLM summary.

Ability to upload to Wikimedia Commons, Evernote.

Hotkeys and mouse are supported.

Ability to download a full youtube channel.

Jumps between youtube chapters.

Ability to get a QR for a youtube channel as an audio podcast xml feed - so scan by your phone - for any podcast app. And for a local folder too - nice way to transfer your local audio to your phone. Without an intermediate server - just LAN links.

Ability to share local folder/file on LAN.

GUI version is also available.

If the config folder is under git - youta will commit/push on exit - to preserve your subscriptions, preferences, history.

https://github.com/vitaly-zdanevich/youta

License: MIT.

You are welcome to share your feedback.

My lecture about it - in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swzZX4Y30Ak