A lightweight, seamless YouTube & YouTube Music player embedded directly inside your Visual Studio Code and Antigravity Explorer sidebar. Listen to background lo-fi music, watch tutorials, or take timestamped study notes without ever leaving your editor.
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✨ Features
📂 Native Explorer Sidebar View: Sits neatly under your file tree, just like vscode-pets.
🔍 Quick Search & Play (Alt + S): Search any YouTube video, podcast, or tutorial directly from the quick pick menu.
🎵 YouTube Music Integration (Alt + M): Search for songs and artists with official music support, or open YouTube Music Web in an integrated editor tab.
🖥️ Responsive HD Desktop Player: Automatic scaling engine prevents oversized mobile buttons and keeps the compact desktop progress bar and quality settings intact.
🎧 Audio-Only GPU Saver: Toggle audio-only mode to save CPU/GPU resources while compiling heavy projects.
📝 Timestamped Notes (Alt + N): Click the Note button while watching tutorials to automatically log clickable timestamps to yutu-notas.md.
📊 Status Bar Widget: Quick play/pause controls right from the bottom status bar.
⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcut
Action
Alt + S
Search videos on YouTube
Alt + M
Search songs / YouTube Music
Alt + P
Play / Pause
Alt + L
Toggle Loop mode
Alt + N
Take a timestamped note
🚀 Installation
From VS Code Marketplace:
Search for YouTube Player for VS Code in the Extensions tab (Ctrl + Shift + X) and click Install.
Manual VSIX Install:
Download the latest yutu-player-x.x.x.vsix and run:
