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Soates

The music player built for developers. YouTube audio streaming — no video, no clutter, no compromise. A project by Infinite Innovative, founded and developed by 8xy.

Status: active
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Type
Audio-only music client
Platform
Windows desktop (Electron)
Publisher
Infinite Innovative
Developer
8xy
Pages
Home · Search · Discover · Library · Playlists · Queue · Visualizer · Dev Console · Settings

What it is

Soates is a premium desktop music client that streams audio only from YouTube. Search any track, queue it, EQ it, visualize it — the app stays lightweight because video is never downloaded or rendered.

How streaming works

The renderer loads tracks through a local soates://stream/<videoId> protocol. The Electron main process resolves a direct audio-only stream URL via YouTube's InnerTube API and relays the bytes in bounded chunks. Because the proxy adds CORS headers, audio flows through a full Web Audio graph — EQ, effects, limiter, analyser — which powers both the equalizer and every visualizer.

Features

Music

  • YouTube search, audio-only, through a local stream proxy
  • Queue with drag-reorder, shuffle and repeat (off / all / one)
  • Auto-radio — related tracks keep the queue alive when it runs out
  • Crossfade (0–12s), playback speed, sleep timer, likes and history
  • Local playlists with import/export, full data backup and restore
  • Session restore — reopens exactly where you left off

Audio engine

  • 10-band equalizer with presets and user presets
  • Bass boost, treble boost, vocal enhance, stereo widener
  • Loudness normalization using YouTube's per-track loudness metadata
  • A transparent master limiter

Visualizers

Spectrum, Circular, Waveform, Particle Field, Neon Rings, Oscilloscope, Floating Dots, Matrix, Galaxy and Dev Grid — each with custom color, sensitivity, trail, FPS, opacity and glow controls.

Customization

Accent color, aurora/grid backgrounds, custom wallpapers with blur and dimming, audio-reactive ambient effects, panel transparency, sidebar width, UI scale, fonts and rebindable hotkeys.

Developer flair

A dedicated Dev Console page with live CPU, RAM, FPS and audio-latency telemetry, sparklines and an event log.

Extras

Discord Rich Presence, tray controls, global media keys, taskbar progress, toast notifications, and an always-on-top mini player with its own theming.

Status

Soates is an actively developed Windows desktop application, built with Electron. It ships as an NSIS installer and a portable build; user data lives locally and is shared between the development and installed versions.