Migrate to YouTube Music

[jdwoody]

This issue will track the upcoming transition from Play Music to Youtube music. Immediate differences:

• Streams will be AAC vs MP3
• Need a different library to call YTM, currently looking at 2 options (open to suggestions)
  • https://github.com/tombulled/python-youtube-music
  • https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi

Please add other known limitations, suggestions, etc.

[edenist]

I've been having a tinker with ytmusicapi and so far I like what I have seen.
The only issue I've been coming across is gaining access to the 256kbps AAC stream as a premium user. Otherwise 128kbit AAC and 160kbps OPUS is available for all users [which opens up a lot of doors for potential users].

[jdwoody]

@edenist Were you using python-youtube-music to access the streams or something else?

[corrmaan]

I've made some progress on getting the 256 kbps stream data: sigma67/ytmusicapi#108

[Makere]

Google Play Music is now dead, so I guess adding this feature would be pretty essential to make the software work again.

[phreaq]

I've been using this for the last couple weeks. works great, based off of gmusic (and others)

https://github.com/KoljaWindeler/ytube_music_player

[jdwoody]

@Makere @corrmaan I ran into several bugs with multiple libraries:

• errors with common functions such as playlists, searches, etc.
• trouble getting streams
• poor authentication options
  I will look at both the ytmusicapi pull and the latest version of that library to see if the issues have been resolved. The parent company's recent DMCA actions have also been concerning.