youtiPy

Easy (or not) py(music)player 🎵

Here's a little program that allows you to play songs (or anything) from YT via CLI

Why ?

• I wanted to do it.
• I just needed to get rid of Spotify and Youtube at work for listen to music.
• Need something minimalist that just do the work without a fatty GUI.
• Need something that (please) DO NOT DOWNLOAD the damn whole video.
• I wanted to do it.

Maybe its not the best implementation of the idea, but works for me, and I hope it works for you too.

Any new idea or request, just ask me please :D

Contents:

• Installation
• Usage examples
• TroubleShooting

Installation:

• Dependencies:

  • vlc player
  • bs4 (BeautifulSoup)
  • requests
  • colorama
  • youtube-dl

• Clone & run

  • git clone https://github.com/jcatala/youtipy
  • cd youtipy
  • for vlc:
    • sudo pacman -S vlc arch
    • apt install vlc debian
  • pip3 install -r requeriments.txt --user
  • python3 main.py

Usage example:

• start the program:

   python3 main.py 

• search for song:

   $ >> search rick astley

• add a song to the queue (From previusly searched term):

   $ >> add song_id

• add song just with the name:

   $ >> play rick astley never gonna give you up

• print the current queue:

   $ >> queue
   # or
   $ >> q

• skip the current song:

   $ >> next

• pause / resume the current song:

   $ >> pause
   $ >> resume

• Quit:

  $ >> quit

Troubleshooting

• My music is not being played, This thing sucks! :

  • Try to check if cvlc lets you to stream any video, sometimes the lua script is outdated and crash with larger streams, if that is the case, do the following:

    • copy the content of this file in to:
    • /usr/lib64/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac (arch)
    • /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac (ubuntu x86)
      Then, try again :D !