LyrenneYouTube Music for Steam Deck

Your YouTube Music library in Game Mode. Pick a playlist from the Quick Access Menu, keep playing your game, and turn the music down without touching the game's volume. Free, open source, no ads.

Get the plugin

Decky Loader plugin · SteamOS · 93 MB · GPL-3.0

Music While You Game

There's no YouTube Music app for Steam Deck's Game Mode, and alt-tabbing to a browser in Desktop Mode means quitting your game. Lyrenne for Decky puts the player in the Quick Access Menu instead: press the ... button, play something, and you're back in your game.

It runs Lyrenne, the desktop YouTube Music player, in the background with no window. So it's the same player: your real library and playlists, the same lyrics sources, the same downloads.

Lyrenne's Quick Access panel on a Steam Deck, showing the album art and title of the song playing

Synced lyric line, seek bar, playback buttons and a separate music volume slider in the Steam Deck Quick Access Menu

Searching YouTube Music for Gorillaz on the Steam Deck, full screen over Game Mode

Full-screen synced lyrics on the Steam Deck

Features

Quick Access

Control it mid-game

Album art, the current lyric line, seek, play and pause, skip, shuffle, repeat, like, download and radio, without leaving your game.

Volume

Music has its own volume

Turn the music down for a cutscene and back up after, without changing the game's volume.

Browse

Your whole library

Home, search, liked songs, playlists, albums, artists and the queue on full-screen pages that open over the game. A plays, X plays next, Y adds to the queue.

Lyrics

Synced lyrics

The line being sung shows right in the panel, with a full-screen lyrics page when you want to follow along.

Battery

Light on the Deck

Under 1% of one CPU core while playing and no measurable extra power draw. About 250 MB of RAM out of 16 GB.

Offline

Downloads and sleep timer

Download songs for a flight, and set a sleep timer for 15 minutes to an hour and a half, or the end of the song.

Install

Step 1

Install Decky Loader if you don't have it, and turn on its Developer mode (Decky settings).

Step 2

In Decky's Developer settings, use Install plugin from URL and paste the link to Lyrenne.zip from the latest release. That's the only file you need: Decky downloads the rest on its own.

Step 3

Open Lyrenne in the Quick Access Menu and press Sign in to YouTube Music. Steam opens a browser: tap Accept all, sign in (STEAM + X brings up the keyboard), then close the tab.

Good to knowYouTube won't stream to signed-out apps, so the sign-in step is needed before anything plays. Your Google password goes to Google's own sign-in page, never to Lyrenne.

FAQ

Can you play YouTube Music on Steam Deck while gaming?

Yes. Lyrenne for Decky plays YouTube Music in the background in Game Mode and puts the controls in the Quick Access Menu, so you never leave your game.

Is it in the Decky store?

Not yet. Install it with Decky's Install plugin from URL option (Developer mode), using the Lyrenne.zip link from the latest release on GitHub.

Does it drain the battery?

Not measurably. While playing it uses under 1% of one CPU core, and power readings on a Steam Deck OLED showed no difference between Lyrenne stopped, idle and playing.

Is it free?

Yes. It's free and open source under GPL-3.0, with no ads and no account of its own. You sign in with your own YouTube Music account.