With the increasing awareness of copyright in recent years, various domestic music streaming platforms have gradually moved to the road of charging subscriptions, buying up the copyright of music at a large price to grab the number of users. A long time ago, we could find almost all music resources on Kugou Music, but now the domestic music resources are almost monopolized by QQ Music and netease cloud music, only a music software may no longer meet the listening needs of many users.

Xiami music’s closure is the epitome of the brutal competition of music platforms

** I usually use Foreign Spotify. The advantage of Spotify is that it only focuses on listening, with cheap rates (20 yuan per quarter in Philippines) and fast online songs. ** But its disadvantages are that the sound quality is poor, and it won’t have the resources for popular variety songs in China. If you want to listen to some songs online in China, you still need to use QQ music or netease cloud music for auxiliary collocation.

So I was looking for an app that could combine QQ Music with netease Cloud Music’s free music resources without all the bells and whistles of social functions and just focus on the music itself. After a long search, I finally found a third-party netease cloud client with a high appearance level that perfectly meets my needs: YesPlayMusic

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To cut to the chase, I really, really like the look of the software. Since I’m still using YouTube’s Music desktop, YesPlayMusic’s UI doesn’t seem alien at first glance.

▲ Upper: YesPlayMusic Lower: YouTube Music

Modular layout like Apple Music, excellent system integration; Different playlists are recommended (Apple Music playlists are also recommended by default, which can be turned off in Settings); No redundancy function, support system level Dark Mode/Light Mode synchronization and view lyrics, etc.

As a third-party netease cloud client, this software can log in to netease cloud music accounts, read the information of songs saved by users, and play MV directly, with comprehensive functions.

In terms of sound quality, users can select the default sound quality of songs in the Settings: there are four levels of normal (128Kbps), high (192Kbps), high (320Kbps) and lossless (FLAC).

Since lossless audio quality is exclusive to netease Cloud vinyl VIP, I also used a non-VIP account for testing. The result shows that this account can also choose lossless audio quality, but it is not clear whether it can listen to FLAC audio quality songs without VIP.

YesPlayMusic can also be used in conjunction with the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar for easy toggle and pause playback. There are also various custom Settings within the Settings that can be adjusted to suit your needs.

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According to the software’s author, YesPlayMusic incorporates UnblockNeteaseMusic, which automatically replaces graying songs with QQ/ Kugou/Kuwo tracks. This is like combining all non-exclusive tracks from several major Chinese platforms. The specific songs can only be known if needed.

However, it is essentially a netease cloud client, so some music platforms, like exclusive sources, still don’t listen on the software.

Take Ed Sheeran’s album Divide. The album requires a VIP subscription to be heard on QQ music and netease cloud music, so it will be grey on YesPlayMusic. (Unless subscribed to netease Cloud Music VIP)

Jay’s album is the same, because netease Cloud music does not have jay’s songs resources.

conclusion

** The software is open source on GitHub and supports Windows, macOS and Linux. ** personally believes that the biggest advantage of this software is to remove the social function of “cloud suppression”, which is joked by many people, from the software, giving users a more refreshing user experience.

Netease Cloud Music’s interface is very complex

The disadvantage is that there is no function to recommend songs based on listening habits.

YesPlayMusic | recommended index: u u u u

Advantages:

– The appearance of the UI is fresh and simple, good integration with the system

– No social features

– Software fluency is better than the official App

disadvantages

– Recommending songs without listening habits

– UI adaptation still needs to be improved (Windows)

Download link: YesPlayMusic