Search and stream songs right inside your editor — discoverable with Telescope, played through mpv, and managed with simple commands. Fast, minimal, and theme-agnostic.

• Search YouTube Music
• Instant streaming through mpv (audio‑only)
• Queue - add/edit/play songs to queue persisted locally

• Neovim 0.8+
• nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
• mpv in PATH
• yt-dlp in PATH

brew install mpv yt-dlp

# mpv
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mpv -y

Follow installation steps for yt-dlp from here

• mpv: Download from mpv.io and add to your PATH.
• yt-dlp: Download the executable from yt-dlp releases and add to your PATH.

{
  "rits1272/riff.nvim",
  dependencies = { "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim" },
  opts = {
      ytdlp_cmd = "yt-dlp",
      status_echo_delay_ms = 10,
  },
}

use {
  "rits1272/riff.nvim",
  requires = { "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim" },
  config = function()
    require("riff").setup({
      ytdlp_cmd = "yt-dlp",
      status_echo_delay_ms = 10,
    })
  end,
}

• :Riff <query> – search and queue/play a song
• :RiffQueue – check queue and add/edit/play songs
• :RiffPause – check queue and add/edit/play songs
• :RiffResume – check queue and add/edit/play songs
• :RiffQueueNext – play next song in the queue or if queue is exhaused, auto-play next song
• :RiffQueueShuffle – shuffle queue
• :RiffQueueClear – remove all songs from queue
• :RiffStop – stop playback

Inside the Telescope picker:

• Press Enter in insert or normal mode on a selection to play it.

• This plugin is intentionally minimal. If you’d like richer UI, progress, or playlist support, open an issue or PR.
• plugin uses yt-dlp internally to fetch audio stream from YT. YT sometimes may block downloading audio streamings to yt-dlp