YouTube jukebox without a browser
Music Box

YouTube offers more than just funny kitten movies; you will also find more than 60 million music videos. With a native YouTube client for Linux, you can use this online jukebox as conveniently as your local music collection.
Although access to many music videos is blocked in some countries, the huge YouTube archive still is an almost inexhaustible, permanently self-replenishing video jukebox. Accessing the service in a browser, though, is not really much fun, despite the fact that YouTube increasingly relies on HTML5 videos. Web movies still push the CPU load right up, consuming huge amounts of memory and wasting bandwidth for those who just want to listen to music. The following applications extract YouTube videos from the website.
Atraci
Atraci [1] combines the ability to play back YouTube movies with appropriate queries for metadata in iTunes, Last.fm, and SoundCloud. The application, which is coded in JavaScript and Node.js, shows images of covers and artists in search results and playlists (Figure 1) in the style of traditional audio players such as Rhythmbox or Amarok. In contrast to the classic music players, however, Atraci does not load its music from your computer's hard disk but takes it directly from YouTube as streamed video.

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