Kaset Control

Control Kaset — the YouTube Music client for macOS — from Raycast.

Kaset is a separate app: this extension drives it over AppleScript, so Kaset has to be installed and running.

Requirements

• Kaset 0.14.2 or newer. The queue commands and the merged YouTube Music and YouTube search need 0.14.2 or later.
• macOS.

Commands

Command	What it does
Now Playing	The current track with live progress, the queue, and recently played. Full playback controls, queue actions, and rating.
Play Song	Search YouTube Music and YouTube together and play, queue, or play next.
Toggle Play/Pause, Next Track, Previous Track	Playback control, no window.
Set Volume	Pick a volume level.
Toggle Shuffle, Cycle Repeat, Toggle Mute	Playback modes.
Like Track, Dislike Track	Rate the current track.
Show Menu Bar	Keep the current track and artwork in the menu bar with controls.
Record Player State	Records history in the background. See below.

Preferences

• Play Song Source — whether Play Song searches YouTube Music, YouTube, or both (the default). You can also narrow this inside the search itself.
• Menu Bar Style / Menu Bar Icon / Hide When Idle — control the menu bar item.

Recently Played

History is recorded without the menu bar. Open Record Player State once, or turn on its background refresh in Raycast's extension settings, so it can keep recording while the Now Playing window is closed.

A track is added to Recently Played only once it has stopped playing, so the track you are listening to never appears in both Now Playing and Recently Played.

Notes

• Seeking is display-only. Kaset exposes no AppleScript command to seek, so the progress ring tracks playback but cannot scrub.
• Album is resolved by searching YouTube Music, because Kaset's player payload does not carry album names. This costs one search per track change.
• The menu bar item is optional and off unless you enable it.