Not a fork but a similar app that is supported is OuterTune

ah yes the vimusic - > rimusic - > kreate pipeline

i started using metrolist when rimusic went unmaintained but i still keep kreate around. for now it's the vimusic fork that's being maintained

I've been using Kreate for a while, seems to be a fork of RiMusic

Not a fork but I've been using OuterTune.

Harmony music has been working well for me

Is RiMusic dead?

Not what youre looking after but- I use newpipe as a peertube client, but since it supports youtube as well you can search yt music specifically and download a track in up to a 128kps .m4a of 160kps .opus file. I then use vlc for android to play em, and it works just fine :3 You may find a offline music player with a ui similar to vi as well!

Some minor gripes is that these files seemingly dont come with metadata, and you cant download a whole playlist or album at a time, both being huge bummers :/

ViTune