Playling playlists from Youtube

[FrancescoCappio]

I am not able to play playlists from youtube. I think the problem happens with all playlists as youtube-dl simply do not accept piped playlists url:

> python harmony.py --playlist "red hot chili peppers"

Searching for playlists...

Results for red hot chili peppers

0. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love (FULL ALBUM) - ESSBY
1. Best Of Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dean Cook
2. RHCP - The Red Hot Chili Peppers - ToonsToob
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits - Joaquin Barbaglia
4. All songs by Red Hot Chili Peppers - allSongsBy
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers Radio - Harry
6. Rock - best of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Metallica, Blur, The White Stripes, The Cranberries - What now
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers PLAYLIST!!! - poompeyloompey
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers Radio - George Kost
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (1999 - Full Album) - Le Sémaphore
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Playlist - Alin Iliuta
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (Complete Album) - Nick
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love (Full Album, 2022/Álbum Completo) - Best Songs Playlist 2022
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love (ALBUM) - HULLE KAN  NIE MET MY NIE
14. RHCP Playlist - iandim
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers YouTube Mix - Sam Harris
16. The Getaway - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Full Album) - Dylan Hallett
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Stern Show - The Howard Stern Show
18. Nirvana Red Hot Chili Peppers Green Day Offspring Blink-182 - Ricky Arreola
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love (Instrumentals) - Djancarlo Shatunov - Instrumentals & Acapellas

Pick an option [0:19, (B)ack]: 0

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love (FULL ALBUM) - ESSBY has been added to the queue.

Add playlists to the Queue (P)lay, (S)how Queue, (B)ack, (Q)uit: P

Playing items in the queue (q to quit)

0. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love (FULL ALBUM) - ESSBY

[ytdl_hook] ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://piped.kavin.rocks/playlist?list=PLfiMjLyNWxeZnoC5NvrDI_-61s0TRSeay
[ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred
Failed to recognize file format.

Exiting... (Errors when loading file)
Add playlists to the Queue (P)lay, (S)how Queue, (B)ack, (Q)uit:

[ZingyTomato]

Huh that's strange. It plays fine for me. Can you just try mpv https://piped.kavin.rocks/playlist?list=PLfiMjLyNWxeZnoC5NvrDI_-61s0TRSeay in a terminal and see what happens?

[ZingyTomato]

I've actually been using an arch Linux container to test out harmony and it still works. Maybe try re-installing mpv or updating youtube-dl?

[FrancescoCappio]

Same error with mpv called directly. I'm on arch linux with everything updated. I also tried reinstalling mpv and youtube-dl (which come from the official repo). Maybe it's a version problem?

> mpv --version
mpv 0.34.1-dirty Copyright © 2000-2021 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on UNKNOWN
FFmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       57.17.100
   libavcodec      59.18.100
   libavformat     59.16.100
   libswscale      6.4.100
   libavfilter     8.24.100
   libswresample   4.3.100
FFmpeg version: n5.0

> youtube-dl --version
2021.12.17

[ZingyTomato]

Does --song and ---video work?

[FrancescoCappio]

Yes, they both works correctly

[ZingyTomato]

@FrancescoCappio Wow that's strange... is it maybe your internet connection or firewall?

[FrancescoCappio]

I think it's a problem of youtube-dl with piped playlists, it's not able to resolve any url of this kind

[ZingyTomato]

@FrancescoCappio Can you try mpv again with --msg-level=ytdl_hook=debug?

[ZingyTomato]

@FrancescoCappio Sorry for pinging again, but could you try installing yt-dlp from the official arch repos and removing youtube-dl? I've confirmed that youtube-dl is the issue. Just added instructions for it.
https://github.com/ZingyTomato/Harmony-Music#-force-mpv-to-use-yt-dlp-over-youtube-dl

[FrancescoCappio]

I confirm that with yt-dlp it works, thank you!