ReSkate Music

Play Spotify, YouTube Music, your own files, internet radio or any app on your PC through the in-game music player. Set up what you want below; skip the rest.

Connecting to the game

Spotify

Needs Spotify Premium. Sound comes straight from Spotify into the game.
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  1. Pick “ReSkate” in Spotify

    Open Spotify on your phone or this PC (same Wi-Fi or network as this PC), open its device list, and choose ReSkate. You only do this once.

  2. Play it in the game

    In the game’s music screen, open the Spotify row and pick the Spotify tile. If the row is not there yet, restart the game once.

  3. Show your own playlistsOptional

    Adds your playlists and Liked Songs as tiles, with their tracks listed. Spotify asks for a free “developer app” for this. It takes about two minutes.

    1. Create the app

      Sign in, press Create app, and give it any name and description.

      Open Spotify’s developer page
    2. Paste this as its “Redirect URI”
      http://127.0.0.1:47824/callback

      Tick Web API if it asks which API you use, then save the app.

    3. Paste the app’s Client ID here

      It is on the app’s page, under Basic information.

    4. Sign in

      A Spotify tab opens. Press Agree, then come back here.

    Plex

    Link your Plex account so your music and its album art come through.
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    1. Sign in with Plex

      A Plex tab opens. Sign in if it asks, press Allow, then come back here. Your password is never shown to ReSkate.

      Then play music in Plexamp (or any Plex app) and pick it under External Audio below. The game shows the song, artist and album art from your Plex server, and the game’s play, pause and next buttons drive it.

    YouTube Music

    Paste links to videos or playlists. Nothing to install by hand.
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    1. Get the YouTube tool

      Downloads yt-dlp (about 18 MB) from its official GitHub page into your ReSkate folder. Playing YouTube this way is against YouTube’s terms of service; whether to use it is up to you.

    2. Add a video or playlist

      Copy a link from YouTube or YouTube Music and paste it here. Up to 100 songs each.

      • Play it in the game

        In the game’s music screen, open the YouTube Music row and press a song. Each song takes a few seconds to start. If the row is not there yet, restart the game once.

      Songs being skipped?

      Private and age-restricted songs only play when YouTube can see you are signed in. There are two ways to do that. Pick one; you do not need both.

      Option ARecommendedIn use
      Give it a cookies.txt file

      Works with every browser. In your browser, signed in to YouTube, install the browser extension Get cookies.txt LOCALLY, open youtube.com, press its Export button, then choose the file here. It stays on this PC. Treat it like a password.

      or
      Option BIn use
      Firefox only: read the sign-in straight from the browser

      Only use this if Firefox is the browser you are signed in to YouTube with. There is no file to export. Chrome, Edge, Opera and Brave block this, so for those use Option A.

      With a sign-in set, songs take a little longer to start.

      Local files

      Music saved on this PC: MP3, M4A, FLAC, Ogg and WAV.
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      1. Add a folder of music

        Open the folder in File Explorer, click the address bar at the top, copy what it shows and paste it here. Folders inside it are included. Each folder becomes a tile with up to 200 songs; names and covers come from the files’ tags.

        • Play it in the game

          In the game’s music screen, open the Local Files row and press a song. Put new files in a folder? Press Rescan next to it. If the row is not there yet, restart the game once.

        Online radio

        Live internet radio stations. Each one you add becomes a tile.
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        1. Find a station

          Type part of a station’s name. This searches radio-browser.info, a free public directory of stations.

            Have a stream’s address instead?

            Paste the address of an MP3 or AAC stream, or of a .pls or .m3u file. Addresses ending in .m3u8 (HLS) are not supported.

          • Your stations

            None yet. Press Add next to a station above.

            • Play it in the game

              In the game’s music screen, open the Online Radio row and pick a station. It is live: pausing leaves the station, and playing tunes back in. If the row is not there yet, restart the game once.

            External audio

            Any app on this PC: a browser, a media player, another music service.
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            1. Start the app playing something

              Only apps that are making sound right now show up in the list.

            2. Choose the app
            3. Play it in the game

              In the game’s music screen, open the External Audio row and pick its tile. The app’s own sound is turned down while it plays through the game, and put back when you leave. If the row is not there yet, restart the game once.

            Sound

            Loudness, equaliser, and where it plays.
            Loudness
            100%
            Equaliser

            Drag a slider up for more of that part of the sound, down for less. It only changes the music you play through ReSkate, not the game’s own.

            Nothing playing
            Pick a tile in the game’s music screen