Viktir

VRPC

Share what you're listening to your friends.

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What is VRPC?

VRPC is a set of software, consisting of an application and a browser extension, which shares information about what you're listening to on YouTube Music and Soundcloud to Discord using Rich Presence. As a bonus, it saves which songs you've listened to and for how long, completely for free.



Every feature here is opt-out, so if you're not comfortable with people seeing you listen on these platforms you can disable sharing data to Discord, same goes for saving your listening data to your computer.

Features

Sync your YouTube Music to Discord

Using Discord's Rich Presence, you can show people what you've been listening to!

Here's exactly what the app captures:

  • The name of the song you're currently listening,
  • The name of the artist,
  • The name of the album,
  • The release year of the album,
  • The current duration of a song and how far along you are,
  • Whether you're currently playing or have paused the song,
  • The image/thumbnail of the song,
  • The link to the song so other people can click "Listen on YouTube Music" on your profile

User listening to YouTube Music

User listening to Soundcloud

Sync your Soundcloud music to Discord

You can also share what you're listening to on Soundcloud to your friends (or strangers) on Discord via Rich Presence

The app captures similar information to YouTube Music:

  • The name of the song you're currently listening,
  • The name of the artist,
  • The current duration of a song and how far along you are,
  • Whether you're currently playing or have paused the song,
  • The image/thumbnail of the song,
  • The link to the song so other people can click "Listen on Soundcloud" on your profile,

Listening Data

As a bonus, the application automatically saves what you've listened to and for how long.

This is an opt-out feature and if you don't like it, you're free to disable it, all files are currently stored locally. While uploading is a planned feature, this is not coming anytime soon and you'll be notified before it's release. This is also not a promise so it might come never.

Here's the data that's being stored:

What we store globally:

  • The current version of an application
  • The time you've listened to songs in total

What we store on a song-by-song basis:

  • The name of the song
  • The author of the song
  • The time you've spent listening to a song
  • The time when you first listened to a song
  • The time when you last listened to a song
  • The time spent listening to a song on the last day you listened to it
  • The day you most spent listening to a song
  • The amount of time you listened to a song on the day you most spent listening to it
  • Whether the song is actually a video
  • The link of the song
  • The last platform you've listened to a song

A screenshot of the extension showing the data that's saved with Listening Data enabled.

These are all neat features but...

How does it work?

In short, it works in a way that the browser extension sends the data you're listening to the application which sends that information to Discord.


In other terms, the extension uses the browser's Native Messaging API to communicate with the application that I made for the purpose of sharing what a person might be listening to at any given moment using Discord's Rich Presence.


There's really not much to it, however, this project wouldn't have been possible without the use of the following projects/software:

  • C# .NET
  • discord-rpc-csharp
  • Newtonsoft.json

Please note that this application is still in Early Access, bugs are expected.

Currently supported platforms are YouTube Music and Soundcloud.

Privacy

I don't collect any data, nor is any data from my application sent to any server on the internet (except for Discord's Rich Presence, maybe at most I can see how many people visited the site/downloaded the application?).

To access your data stored locally do the following:


On Windows:

Open up the search bar or use the Run prompt (Windows + R)

Type in: %appdata%\VRPCApp\Data

Disclaimers

Please note that anything in my application/extension can change at any time without notice.

Lastly, if you have any bug reports or anything that makes you feel is "out of the ordinary". Please tell me at viktir@uninbox.me.

Download

Early Access/Pre-release*

* Everything and anything is subject to change.

Installation instructions

Download the application

Extract vrpc-full.zip package

Run VRPC.exe

Click Install


Download the extension

Relaunch your browser

You're good to go!


Need help?

Relaunch your browser.

If that doesn't work, check out the troubleshooting steps available at the application's GitHub repository.

Lastly, for any issues, suggestions or even if you want to chat, I'm available at viktir@uninbox.me.