YouTube Music

[OzGav]

Music Assistant has support for the Youtube Music provider

DISCLAIMER
Please note that Youtube does not offer an official API to retrieve data and streams. This means that everything we built is on a best-effort basis. Unexpected behavior will occur whilst using this provider. For this reason if you have another streaming provider you may find it more convenient to use that instead of this one.

Documentation https://music-assistant.io/music-providers/youtube-music/

[jabastien]

Authenticate on YouTube music does not work for me. MA server (docker) does not redirect to Google OAuth page for granting access. I get a spinning wheel on clicking the "AUTHENTICATE ON YOUTUBE MUSIC" button. Same issue in both Chrome and Firefox.

>>> "A new window will open. Ignore the code and click 'Next'" THIS DOES NOT WORK FOR ME.

Running in docker as per server /docker-compose.example.yml.

[OzGav]

@MarvinSchenkel thoughts?

[MarvinSchenkel]

Does the popup work for any other music providers like Tidal?

[fsquillace]

Hi all, YT music works good most of the time but sometimes when MA moves to the next track in the queue, MA start playing the next song until it reaches 4 seconds then it restarts over. It seems getting stuck indefinitely. If I change to the next song or pause/play manually it works again. Have you observed the same issue? Any ways to fix it?

Thank you for the great work!

[OzGav]

There are related issues #1554 and #1573 and #1490

So keep an eye on when those get resolved and if you still have a problem then raise an issue for your particular case.

[fsquillace]

Ok, thanks. From a quick look they seems unrelated. Anyway, I will wait until those issues get fixed.

[peterleerental]

As a feature request I would much prefer YouTube videos in general rather than YouTube Music. Using Logitech Media Server we were able to listen to the audio from any YouTube video (audiobooks and TV programs such as quiz shows) but now we've moved over to Music Assistant I've found that the amount of stuff on YouTube Music is very restricted. Or am I being very dim?

[OzGav]

Certainly TTS messages are supported just not yet to the full extent of pausing and resuming the currently playing audio. I think barring playing audio from video sources you will find MA is pretty comprehensive but of course you will need to decide if it is the best of the available options.

[peterleerental]

And pause/resume is on your roadmap so I'm sticking with MASS! Thank you for all the work.

[MarvinSchenkel]

Videos should be supported already if you add them to a YT Music playlist. Just got to the webapp, search for the videos you want (under the videos category) and add them to a playlist. They should get synced to MA and you should be able to play them:

I don't think the entire Youtube library is available, but definitely 'music videos' and things like audio books / podcasts:

[peterleerental]

Only the videos within the YouTube music library are supported. My problem is that most of the things we listen to on the main YouTube site are not available on YTM. We listen mainly to 'unofficial' audiobooks and old TV or radio programmes. As an example; the YT video titled 'University Challenge Tuesday 1st September 1987 - University College Oxford vs Open University.' That's not on YTM.
It's not the end of the world but videos such as this and pause/resume with TTS messages would mean MASS has everything we want.
By the way, music IS sometimes resuming after TTS using the Play Media action in a HA automation and either Piper or Google, but it seems to resume music I was listening to yesterday!

[MarvinSchenkel]

I see your point. The YT Music provider will definitely not support this, since, well, it's not on Youtube Music :-). I am pretty sure we won't be adding a Youtube-provider since it is a huge hassle to keep anything Youtube-related up and running. The reason for this is that there is not an official integration with Youtube / Youtube Music.

[peterleerental]

Because when we used the Logitech Media Player (LMP) YouTube 'app' we weren't using YT for music but rather for the audio from videos such as recorded TV programs. After installing Music Assistant I looked at YouTube Music but I couldn't find any of the material we normally listen to. I've never used YTM before so perhaps I just wasn't searching properly.

[peterleerental]

I appreciate the difficullty and we can use bluetooth to send audio to the squeezelite players on Raspberry Pis, although it's a bit klunky (using Max2Play). I am still v. happy to use Music Assistant and look forward to new features on your road map. 26 Oct 2023 9:54:45 am Marvin Schenkel ***@***.***>:

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I see your point. The YT Music provider will definitely not support this, since, well, it's not on Youtube Music :-). I am pretty sure we won't be adding a Youtube-provider since it is a huge hassle to keep anything Youtube-related up and running. The reason for this is that there is not an official integration with Youtube / Youtube Music. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub[#1551 (reply in thread)], or unsubscribe[https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJJVDPTFISKDUMWILYPH3ZDYBIJMHAVCNFSM6AAAAAA5TX6BMWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM3TGOBZG4YDA]. You are receiving this because you commented.[Tracking image][https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AJJVDPT3ZPOJPPO4YP3YB5DYBIJMHA5CNFSM6AAAAAA5TX6BMWWGG33NNVSW45C7OR4XAZNRIRUXGY3VONZWS33OINXW23LFNZ2KUY3PNVWWK3TUL5UWJTQAODBAI.gif]

[Simpelton]

Signing into Youtube Musik does not work for me. I don`t get a popup window needed for the oAuth login. Only manage to get the time out message. Tried on Firefox on MacOs, in the iOS HomeAssistant app and on iOS Chrome.

My HA is working with a HTTP not HTTPS. Not sure if Google has issues with redirects from insecure sites.

Debug log does not show anything interesting.

2024-05-24 12:15:08.436 ERROR (MainThread) [music_assistant.webserver] Error handling message: CommandMessage(message_id=16, command='config/providers/get_entries', args={'provider_domain': 'ytmusic', 'action': 'auth', 'values': {'auth_token': None, 'refresh_token': None, 'expiry_time': None, 'token_type': None, 'log_level': 'GLOBAL', 'session_id': 'bot4ciO-sl6'}})
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/controllers/webserver.py", line 351, in _run_handler
result = await result
^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/controllers/config.py", line 238, in get_provider_config_entries
await prov_mod.get_config_entries(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/providers/ytmusic/init.py", line 140, in get_config_entries
token = await login_oauth(auth_helper)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/providers/ytmusic/helpers.py", line 300, in login_oauth
code = await get_oauth_code(http_session)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/music_assistant/server/providers/ytmusic/helpers.py", line 314, in get_oauth_code
async with session.post(OAUTH_CODE_URL, json=data, headers=headers) as code_response:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 1197, in aenter
self._resp = await self._coro
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 507, in _request
with timer:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/aiohttp/helpers.py", line 735, in exit
raise asyncio.TimeoutError from None
TimeoutError

[MarvinSchenkel]

I think the popup does not work very well. Can you check on a desktop/laptop and ensure you do not have any popup blockers that prevent the oauth flow from running?

[Simpelton]

No change did enable pop ups, disabled AdBlock on FireFox, MacOs

[MarvinSchenkel]

I can't reproduce it as it seems to be working fine for me.

1. Can you try another provider that uses Oauth, e.g. Deezer? And see if the oauth pop up is working there
2. Can you try another browser on mac os, e.g. Chrome?
3. If that all fails, can you provide a screen recording?

[Simpelton]

1. Tried oAuth (clicked on authenticate) with Deezer. That opened a new TAB. It does not do that with youtube music
2. Tried on Win10 with Firefox and Chrome - enabled popups etc. Same behavior as above => screen goes grey, some "please wait I am busy" icon, then a time out. With Deezer, this also happens with the main window of HA / Musicassitant - but I do get a new tab where I could log into Deezer.

[Simpelton]

Works for me now (v2.0.7). A new browser tab is created for authentication with Google Youtube Music where I can follow through with the sing in process. Thx

[ncd7]

I just lost connection to YTMusic. Deleting and re-adding the provider fails to work :(. This is the first time this has happened to me. Not sure if they just changed something.

[SiboutVanLoo]

Same here, deleting and, re-authentication =
ERROR: [youtube+yt_access_token] XXXXXXXXXXX: Unable to download API page: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request (caused by <HTTPError 400: Bad Request>)

[rairulyle]

So I encountered multiple error before I can make YouTube music to work. And after checking the Browse, I saw duplicates and it seems to be related to the error I encounter. How can I remove them and leave just the working one?