Not showing the artist name on search of a song

[mistrkrshna]

Steps to reproduce the bug

Go to search
Search for any song like despacito
Now it doesn't show the artist name in search screen

Expected behavior

This should show the artist name below the song title

Actual behavior

This only shows the song title and the artist name is null.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

Logs

No response

ViMusic version

0.5.4

Android version

Android 10

Additional information

Hope you will fix it soon .

[dreamAviator]

Also it won't show the duration of song.
Previously you could fix this by just searching again, but right now it's always lime this. IG youtube changes something?

[locxter]

I have been using the same build of ViMusic for well over a year now (since it hasn't been updated on F-Droid since) and until just recently the search would always show the artist and play time for songs available on YouTube Music. Now it just shows the reduced information available for videos - this is not normal.

YouTube probably changed their API for songs a bit and now the reverse-engineered InnerTube client falls back to its video parsing methods, which results in this misbehaviour. I'm going to look into this issue a bit myself, but, since I haven't worked with Android applications before and certainly none so complex, help from some of the more experienced developers out here would be amazing!

Thanks in advance!

PS: I also commented on the same issue for the RiMusic fork over here, but this is such relevant functionality that it should be fixed here too...

[locxter]

Take a look at my pull request for RiMusic here for a really easy fix.

[ShareASmile]

Time Limited Forked Release of NeoMusic is here untill ViMusic gets a fresh breath of air, hopefully.

Thanks @locxter for the fix & @vfsfitvnm for beautifully written code of this lightweight little gem of an app.

[dreamAviator]

So it's a fork of ViMusic. Is the only difference the fix?