diff --git a/media-sound/ytm-player/Manifest b/media-sound/ytm-player/Manifest
index b64dc9ca02..a8c9272eef 100644
--- a/media-sound/ytm-player/Manifest
+++ b/media-sound/ytm-player/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST ytm-player-1.5.1.tar.gz 332414 BLAKE2B acb053ba9b524204f2f162bbb78b7e3dcaf6d44da75b546be8d89efc80a0aeb7b653e90db3719e16613ad845bb9b547d3e79753faba43625eeff8871eb385f82 SHA512 9d7b1c517ffc8f1892955695ddda2956deea3ba49770ae782a7c916442c31044a98ba57531762b6f4d46a7a1adb4ad15c56ee04658388406523ab1de560b38a9
+DIST ytm-player-1.5.2.tar.gz 332064 BLAKE2B 65a403b31b0f5cf47110f4fc4584bda70e369c663c07d66827fc83bab1409c371ffec5fb31b6d710777d2ac28c20495429d7a8666b5887efdbf6e16ed5467649 SHA512 e7acb42b830b1d631fa7cde39545fb421981cf758b226a57e3ff26b384d624839e11558da04d2cf5a8a4c1a6056489d03dff24d70e581247c62dbbcb8e9961d3
diff --git a/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-1.5.1.ebuild b/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-1.5.1.ebuild
index 443e9d1e80..18517e49f2 100644
--- a/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-1.5.1.ebuild
+++ b/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-1.5.1.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	media-video/mpv
-	net-misc/yt-dlp
+	>=net-misc/yt-dlp-2025.01.12[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/aiosqlite-0.20.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/click-8.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/python-mpv-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
diff --git a/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-1.5.2.ebuild b/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-1.5.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..18517e49f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-1.5.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..13} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 optfeature
+
+DESCRIPTION="Full-featured YouTube Music TUI client with vim-style navigation"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/peternaame-boop/ytm-player"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == *9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/peternaame-boop/ytm-player.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/peternaame-boop/ytm-player/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	media-video/mpv
+	>=net-misc/yt-dlp-2025.01.12[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/aiosqlite-0.20.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/click-8.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/python-mpv-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pillow-10.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/textual-7.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/ytmusicapi-1.11.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/anyascii[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=( pytest-asyncio )
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "MPRIS media key support" dev-python/dbus-next
+	optfeature "last.fm scrobbling" dev-python/pylast
+	optfeature "Discord rich presence" dev-python/pypresence
+	optfeature "spotify playlist import" dev-python/spotipy # spotifyscraper & thefuzz are not packaged
+	optfeature "lyrics transliteration to ASCII" dev-python/anyascii
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	# The default portage tempdir is too long for AF_UNIX sockets
+	local -x TMPDIR=/tmp
+	epytest
+}
diff --git a/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-9999.ebuild b/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-9999.ebuild
index 443e9d1e80..18517e49f2 100644
--- a/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-sound/ytm-player/ytm-player-9999.ebuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ SLOT="0"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	media-video/mpv
-	net-misc/yt-dlp
+	>=net-misc/yt-dlp-2025.01.12[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/aiosqlite-0.20.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/click-8.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	>=dev-python/python-mpv-1.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]