Youtube music integration
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kingstondouglas
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The Spotify integration is nice but a lot of Android users are using YouTube music. Is an integration possible?
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Not without an API. Why not use Chromecast?
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I'm not sure anyone prefers accessing their online services using the WiiM app vs the service's native app.
I wouldn't refer to the implementations as integrated, more like connected with basic control.
Music Assistant, which I'm currently testing to replace LMS, does have proper library integration for YTM along with Apple (in beta) and several other popular services and can stream to WiiM.
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Music Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming providers
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i was reading through their documentation, and it clearly states there that these are unofficial implementations. kudos to the devs for trying it.I'm not sure anyone prefers accessing their online services using the WiiM app vs the service's native app.
I wouldn't refer to the implementations as integrated, more like connected with basic control.
Music Assistant, which I'm currently testing to replace LMS, does have proper library integration for YTM along with Apple (in beta) and several other popular services and can stream to WiiM.
Music Assistant
Music Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming providers
but i'm curious - have you used either one? how well does it work?
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...and it's written in Python, one of today's most-used languages, vs the long-in-the-tooth Perl used by LMS. You've piqued my interest, thanks! Wasn't aware of this project.I'm not sure anyone prefers accessing their online services using the WiiM app vs the service's native app.
I wouldn't refer to the implementations as integrated, more like connected with basic control.
Music Assistant, which I'm currently testing to replace LMS, does have proper library integration for YTM along with Apple (in beta) and several other popular services and can stream to WiiM.
Music Assistant
Music Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming providers
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The integration is impeccable, my local and online YTM libraries appear as one with additional albums and tracks for the artist combined and linked for online music.i was reading through their documentation, and it clearly states there that these are unofficial implementations. kudos to the devs for trying it.
but i'm curious - have you used either one? how well does it work?
The downside is that the interface is not as responsive as LMS or Roon (it seems to be the online libraries slowing it down which I don't have integrated in the other environments), and metadata scraping has been throttled as apparently, they were crushing MusicBrainz with an enormous number of API calls after the initial launch and will only download as you browse to a track/album/artist.
I'm also not seeing full metadata making it to my Wiim using Squeezelite (Wiim app just shows "SQUEEZELITE"), or my Vero4K OSMC box using DLNA (Track name only with no artist name displayed), but this isn't a big issue as Music Assistant is the interface I'm looking at while playing.
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Got the docker version of MA running on a small ‘nix server without issue. Tidal was a PITA to enable, some issues between one or more Chrome extensions and Tidal, but once resolved, was straightforward.
I wish the UI was more configurable, but MA does support a lot of endpoints, and it integrates the services nicely.
I’m very much an album player, and I love having full artist/album details fully available, to the point where my own hacks allow copy/paste of these details to a local database, because the services are mostly quite lacking, so, while MA is a pretty decent setup, I’ll be sticking with my custom software for now.
I wish the UI was more configurable, but MA does support a lot of endpoints, and it integrates the services nicely.
I’m very much an album player, and I love having full artist/album details fully available, to the point where my own hacks allow copy/paste of these details to a local database, because the services are mostly quite lacking, so, while MA is a pretty decent setup, I’ll be sticking with my custom software for now.
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I've never understood why Sonos has the largest library of music & audio services - they outrun all other systems. Possibly because they have a huge user base and can attract music services on this alone.
If you’re using Chromecast to play YouTube to your WiiM then the resolution/quality won’t be shown as WiiM says the info they can extract from the stream is unreliable so they’re rather show nothing than something inaccurate.
So I suppose there is a high chance they will fix it over time. That's good.
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