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?

[OzGav]

Have you tried restarting MA?

[lumper5]

Using the new (Nov 2024) cookie method apparently fails if you have a Google FAMILY account for YouTube Premium. I have such an account and when I copy and paste in my cookie info, I see "User Does Not Have a YouTube Music Premium Account". I then go to YTM, check account status, and my Family Account (US) is active and valid. I was using YT without issue before the Nov 2024 change.

[chicagoandy]

I see this was added to the docs: "If a Family Account is in use then setting up a dedicated account for MA will assist in maximising cookie life". I think I am seeing symptoms of short cookie life, I am getting error spammed in my logs every two minutes: 2024-12-10 07:32:06.650 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant] Error loading provider(instance) YouTube Music: User does not have Youtube Music Premium (will be retried later)

Are there any ways to improve cookie reliability with a family account?

[OzGav]

What that means is set up a another YTM user under your family plan for MA

[MarvinSchenkel]

For example, I have a 'smarthome' gmail account that I added to my family subscription. This is the account I solely use for MA.

[chicagoandy]

What that means is set up a another Spotify user under your family plan for MA

Spotify?

[OzGav]

typo

[jensweimann]

So if the cookie expires after some time, how about to read it from a shared file in the filesystem? For example in /config or some other shared folder. Then we could figure out a way to update the cookie with a script or automation like described here: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp

[MarvinSchenkel]

This is not possible, or it will be very cumbersome to implement this. The reason for this is that we are dealing with two systems

1. The system where you are logged in to YTM (e.g. your laptop)
2. The system that runs MA (the docker container).

There is no way to obtain the cookie from your laptop from within the MA container. Building a script that runs on your laptop and updates the cookie inside the docker container also takes more effort than the benefits it will give.

[jensweimann]

On the local machine would be some solution for extracting the cookie (maybe a chrome plugin, a python script, selenium test run etc.). From there we would need to put it into the MA container. This could be over home assistant's api into a file for MA or via a call of service, api etc of MA. But yes, that's cumbersome, agreed.

[OzGav]

@jensweimann if you come up with a workable solution then please share it.

[l33cuj3s]

Pasting images to preserve formatting from GPT. Please hide or ignore this suggestion if it is unhelpful, but the constant pasting of cookies is doing my head in.

[ncd7]

Question -- what permissions does that cookie impart? Is it strictly for YTM or also for other parts of the google account? Also, are we going the cookie route because YTM is not exposed via an oauth flow? Eg you can access your Google Tasks with oauth and the google dev console. I think it's a decent balance of security and convenience since the permissions you give access to are limited and you also don't need to keep doing this cookie business continuously. It now times out for me constantly. Thanks!

[Thorsten1982]

Hello, it may be that there is a new error again, I now always get the error when playing that the streaming details cannot be retrieved. I then tried to re-enter the cookie and got the following error message:

ERROR: [youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Requested format is not available. Use --list-formats for a list of available formats

[OzGav]

Yes. YouTube has made things difficult again. The dev is looking at it. Resolution time is unknown (if even possible)

[AlternetConcept]

I too started getting this error
Error: Unable to retrieve streamdetails for Kupla - Kingdom in Blue (ytmusic://track/Wi1MBqYEg6Y)
I tried to delete and re-enter my credentials in MA and now I'm getting the User does not have Youtube Music Premium error when trying to add YTM to MA.

Wish google didn't have to be like this..

[MarvinSchenkel]

It's not you unfortunately. Google is closing down unofficial access more and more. I did find a fix which is under review. However, this will introduce a delay which means you'll have to wait 10sec before the music starts playing :-(

[PhillySports]

I won't be so naive as to think it will matter, but I will definitely be leaving YouTube Music and switch to Spotify over this and will be letting them know the reason. Again, I know that won't matter to G, but it will make me feel better.

[ufondu88]

Yeah I think I am done dealing with Youtube Music's shenanigans as it relates to Music Assistant and I will be using the Spotify provider from now on