Mopidy-YTMusic

Mopidy extension for playing music from YouTube Music

Installation

Install by running:

sudo python3 -m pip install Mopidy-YTMusic

See https://mopidy.com/ext/ytmusic/ for alternative installation methods.

Configuration

By default Mopidy-YTMusic 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-YTMusic to use it.

To create an auth.json file run mopidy ytmusic setup (or sudo mopidyctl ytmusic setup if you're running mopidy as a service, also see below) and follow the instructions in the terminal. When you're done it will tell you what config options you need to add to your Mopidy configuration file. It should look something like this:

[ytmusic]
auth_json = /path/to/auth.json

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.

Annoyingly, those authentication credentials will expire from time to time. Run mopidy ytmusic reauth (or sudo mopidyctl ytmusic reauth) to paste in new headers and overwrite your existing auth.json file. Then restart mopidy for the new credentials to go into effect.

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_like_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"
• verify_track_url - Verify that track url is valid before sending to mopidy. Default: yes. There should be no need to set this to no.

Info 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

Note for users running mopidy as a service:

Since the mopidy user will end up trying to create the auth.json file, you'll likely want to specify the path as /tmp when you run sudo mopidyctl ytmusic setup. Then you can move the /tmp/auth.json to /etc/mopidy and add:

[ytmusic]
auth_json = /etc/mopidy/auth.json

to your /etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf file. To make reauthentication easier, make sure the auth.json file is owned by the mopidy user by running sudo chown mopidy /etc/mopidy/auth.json.

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-YTMusic-x.x.x.tar.gz file is what you'll use to install.
4. With pip: python3 -m pip install dist/Mopidy-YTMusic-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: Tomas Ravinskas
• Contributors

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