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[Suggestion] Youtube fetcher #53
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One particular use case that I have for ncmpcpp is that sometimes while listening to an internet radio stream I come across a song that I want to listen to again, so I'll hop onto Youtube and search it up. I'm wondering if there's any interest in implementing a feature in ncmpcpp that will allow the user to search and play audio streams from Youtube.
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andremeireles commentedon Mar 30, 2019
It's unrelated to ncmpcpp but my suggestion is to use mpv + youtube-dl combo for stream a audio.
Plumbing the url for xsel and make a shortcut is very handy!
SriramKid commentedon May 13, 2019
@andremeireles I am a new linux user so could you please explain what you meant by using xsel? Also, I would like to set up ncmpcpp so I can have both local files and songs from youtube (in red color) present and playable in the same playlist on ncmpcpp. Could you help with this? I use Arch linux and Mopidy+ncmpcpp, and I have local files as white and spotify files as green, but have been unable to find a solution to adding and streaming audio from youtube.
andremeireles commentedon May 17, 2019
@SriramKid,
xsel -igrabs the content and store it on primary selection (clipboard).You can use
catorsedto send contents toxselFor example:
sed -n 2p youtube.txt | xsel -iwill copy the second line from the file youtube.txt.This is the basic usage but will not help with your problem.
To hear a specific audio from youtube channels, i store some urls, one by line, inside a file and pipe it through dmenu and finally, play the stream on mpv.
The script:
mpv "$(cat radios_and_youtube.txt | dmenu -l 10)" &will:You can use
mpv "$(cat radios_and_youtube.txt | dmenu -l 10)" --no-video --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui &to disable video and play just audio with a black screen.This approach works with youtube urls and streaming radio channels.
Sorry to messy the OP suggestion. I don't know if ncmpcpp can do it nowadays and i was searching this functionality too. I felt like suggesting an alternative while don't have answers to ncmpcpp.