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A teenager has invented the world’s first YouTube music player, that mines Youtube’s extensive back catalogue of music tracks.
David Nelson, a 15-year-old programmer from Iowa invented the player with the help of his dad, Mark. The two spent a year developing Muziic Player. Muziic Player allows users to organise, search, stream and create playlists from YouTube's catalogue of music clips.

In under one month, the player has been downloaded over 1 million times and the demand has resulted in the two being forced to add another server to handle the huge amount of requests.

"My dad had the idea for creating a YouTube music site, but I said it should be done in a media player format," David said. "I imagined how great it would be to open up your desktop media player and have a library of millions of music videos."

David added, "YouTube has a massive collection of user-generated music content, and holds contracts with the world's largest record labels that are compensated for the playback of supported media. It has undeniably the most extensive media library on the Internet."

David also believes his software can help with current crisis in music. Muziic takes advantage of Youtube’s content ID software, so artists will eventually be able to claim a share of royalties.  This also means that because YouTube hasn’t been able to reach an agreement with the PRS that UK users might not be able to hear the music on the site.

David said,  "Muziic fills a demand by streamlining this process and making it a whole lot easier to discover new artists and songs by using YouTube. It reinforces the idea that when done right, free, ad-supported music sharing websites and applications can provide artists and labels with full compensation and prove to be a profitable business for those streaming the content as well."