All of this has been merged back into the original Mopidy-YTMusic. YAY! This is now archived and not worth anyone's time.

Mopidy-YoutubeMusic

Mopidy extension for playing music from YouTube Music

Forked from Mopidy-YTMusic by Tomas Ravinskas.

Installation

Install by running:

python3 -m pip install Mopidy-YoutubeMusic

Configuration

Before starting Mopidy, you need to enable Mopidy-YoutubeMusic in your Mopidy configuration file:

[youtubemusic]
enabled = true

By default Mopidy-YoutubeMusic will connect to YouTube Music as a guest account. This has limited options. If you would like to connect to YouTube Music with your account (free or premium) you'll need to generate an auth.json file and configure Mopidy-YoutubeMusic to use it.

To create an auth.json file run mopidy youtubemusic setup and follow instructions in the terminal. When you're done it will tell you what config options (e.g. auth = /path/to/auth.json) you need to add to your Mopidy configuration file.

Authenticated users have access to their listening history, likes, playlists and uploaded music. Premium users have access to high quality audio streams and other premium content.

Other configuration options are as follows:

• auto_playlist_refresh - time (in minutes) to refresh the Auto playlists. Default: 60. Set to 0 to disable auto playlists.
• youtube_player_refresh - time (in minutes) to refresh the Youtube player url (used for decoding the signature). Default: 15
• playlist_item_limit - Number of items to grab from playlists. This is not exact. Default: 100
• subscribed_artist_limit - Number of subscriptions to list. Default: 100. Set to 0 to disable subscription list.
• enable_history - Show Recently Played playlist. Default: yes
• enable_liked_songs - Show Liked Songs playlist. Default: yes
• enable_mood_genre - Show Mood & Genre playlists from YouTube Music's Explore directory. Default: yes
• enable_scrobbling - Mark tracks as played on YouTube Music after listening. Default: yes
• stream_preference - Comma separated list of itags in the order of preference you want for stream. Default: "141, 251, 140, 250, 249"

Information on YouTube Music streams:

itag	Codec	Sample Rate	Bit Rate
1411	AAC	44.1kHz	~260kbps
251	Opus	48kHz	~150kbps
140	AAC	44.1kHz	~132kbps
250	Opus	48kHz	~80kbps
249	Opus	48kHz	~64kbps

Build for Local Install

1. Install poetry <https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation>
2. Run poetry build to create the build tarball
3. The dist/Mopidy-YoutubeMusic-x.x.x.tar.gz file is what you'll use to install.
4. With pip: python3 -m pip install dist/Mopidy-YoutubeMusic-x.x.x.tar.gz to install or reinstall over an existing version.
5. Do configuration stuff if you haven't already.

Project resources

• Source code
• Issue tracker
• Changelog

Credits

• Original author: Tomas Ravinskas
• Current maintainer: Dave Maez
• Contributors

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1. Available to premium accounts only.↩