Links & Sharing
Open YouTube links straight into SimpMusic, share what you're playing, and hand off links between the web and the app.
SimpMusic plugs into the system beyond its own screens — it can open YouTube links directly, hand a song off to another app, and be handed a link back.
Opening YouTube links in SimpMusic
On Android, SimpMusic registers itself as a handler for YouTube and YouTube Music links, so tapping one — in a browser, a chat app, anywhere — can open straight into SimpMusic instead of the YouTube app.
| What you tap | Hosts | Opens |
|---|---|---|
A video link (/watch, /v/, /embed/, or a bare youtu.be/<id>) | youtube.com, m.youtube.com, www.youtube.com, music.youtube.com, youtu.be | The song or video |
A playlist link (/playlist) | same hosts | The playlist or album |
A channel link (/channel/, /user/, /c/) | same hosts | The artist/channel |
A vnd.youtube: or vnd.youtube.launch: link | custom scheme, no host | Whatever it references |
These filters are declared as Android App Links (autoVerify), so once Android has verified the
domain, tapping a link opens SimpMusic directly with no "Open with" prompt. If verification
hasn't happened yet, you'll see the usual app chooser instead.
Desktop handles the same links too: macOS receives them through the system's URL-open handler, while Windows and Linux receive them as a command-line argument when the OS launches SimpMusic for that link.
Sharing from SimpMusic
Songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts all have a Share action in their "⋯" menu.
Open the "⋯" menu on a song, album, playlist, or podcast.
Tap Share.
What happens next depends on the platform:
| Platform | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Android | Opens the OS share sheet with a music.youtube.com link, ready to send to any app |
| Desktop | Copies the link to your clipboard and shows a toast — there's no OS share sheet |
Sharing a link to SimpMusic
On Android, SimpMusic also appears as a share target: from another app's own share menu (YouTube, a browser, a chat app), you can share a YouTube link to SimpMusic and it opens the same way as tapping the link directly. This is Android-only — Desktop has no share-target integration.
Web → app handoff
Links under simpmusic.org/app/ and the simpmusic:// custom scheme both hand content straight
from the web to the app, on both Android and Desktop:
| Link | Opens |
|---|---|
.../app/watch?v=<id> or simpmusic://watch?v=<id> | The song or video |
.../app/playlist?list=<id> or simpmusic://playlist?list=<id> | The playlist or album |
.../app/channel/<id> or simpmusic://channel/<id> | The artist/channel |
.../app/album?id=<id> or simpmusic://album?id=<id> | The album |
This is what powers "Open in app" links from simpmusic.org.
NFC tags
Android also listens for the same tap-to-open behavior via NFC: a YouTube or SimpMusic link written to an NFC tag opens straight into the app when your phone taps it, using the same link filters described above.
