YouTube Music please !

[Rider]

YouTube Music: The missing streaming provider on WiiM.

 

[Brantome]

Firstly, apologies for my earlier senior moment - as pointed out by @d6jg when you use ChromeCast from your phone/tablet, you’re instructing the streaming service (in your case YouTube Music) not to send the music stream back to your phone, but to redirect it from the cloud direct to the device you’re casting to, in this case your WiiM device.

ChromeCast is typically said to be able to support streams up to 24/96, but a WiiM Pro happily supports up to 24/192.
However, this is rather a moot point with YouTube Music Premium - even when set on high quality, that’s only transmitting 256kbps lossy AAC which is a fraction of what ChromeCast can support. So using ChromeCast , there will be no further loss of quality.

If you use Bluetooth, the YouTube stream is sent from the cloud back to your phone which then uses the Bluetooth codec to compress the stream before sending it to your WiiM where the stream is decompressed and played. As Bluetooth itself is a lossy transport, it could be argued that the already lossy YouTube AAC suffers further loss of quality using that method.

Hope I’ve got it right this time - no doubt I’ll be corrected if I’ve slipped up again

 

[Alexxx]

@Brantome
A thousand thanks.

Very kind and clear in explaining
See you soon!

 

[d6jg]

@d6jg
Ok.
Could I lose audio quality this way?

I have youtube premium on high quality.

I don't think there are network players who already have Youtube Premium installed (such as tidal spotfi etc.) correct?

Thanks a lot, I'll do some things and tell you.

As I said I don’t use it and have no wish or need to do so but you will find full info here - https://forums.slimdevices.com/foru...102458-announce-youtube-plugin-api-v3/page103

 

[Alexxx]

Thank

 

[graystones]

@d6jg
Ok.
Could I lose audio quality this way?

I have youtube premium on high quality.

I don't think there are network players who already have Youtube Premium installed (such as tidal spotfi etc.) correct?

Thanks a lot, I'll do some things and tell you.

I thought HEOS on Denon receivers supports YouTube Music, but just checked my newly updated HEOS app (which is way better than before), and I don't see it as an option. I wonder if they eliminated it when implementing universal search?

 

[cc_rider]

YouTube Music:

Offers over 100 million official songs.
Includes a vast array of live performances, music videos, remixes, and podcasts.
Personalized music journey tailored to individual preferences.
Discovery features to help users find new music and artists.
Allows background play and offline listening for Premium subscribers.
Integration with the broader YouTube ecosystem.
Spotify:

Boasts a library with over 100 million songs and 5 million podcasts.
Provides device versatility, available on smartphones, tablets, computers, and more.
Features like Discover Weekly and Release Radar for music discovery.
Ad-free listening, offline playback, and on-demand play with Premium.
Allows users to create and share playlists.
Spotify Connect for seamless listening across different devices.
Both platforms aim to provide a rich listening experience with a focus on personalization and discovery.

Already supported via Chromecast to all WiiM devices except the Mini.

 

[Brantome]

YouTube Music:

Offers over 100 million official songs.
Includes a vast array of live performances, music videos, remixes, and podcasts.
Personalized music journey tailored to individual preferences.
Discovery features to help users find new music and artists.
Allows background play and offline listening for Premium subscribers.
Integration with the broader YouTube ecosystem.
Spotify:

Boasts a library with over 100 million songs and 5 million podcasts.
Provides device versatility, available on smartphones, tablets, computers, and more.
Features like Discover Weekly and Release Radar for music discovery.
Ad-free listening, offline playback, and on-demand play with Premium.
Allows users to create and share playlists.
Spotify Connect for seamless listening across different devices.
Both platforms aim to provide a rich listening experience with a focus on personalization and discovery.

Difference though is that Spotify make their API available to third parties, Google/YouTube not so much if at all…

 

[sNc]

Any update on the topic? Is there any discussion between Google / YouTube and Wiim? In the promotion video about Wiim Ultra there was a mention about yt music

 

[harkpabst]

In the promotion video about Wiim Ultra there was a mention about yt music

Which video? I didn't notice this.

I've only ever notice YT Music in the "Features we're thinking about in future updates" sections on various WiiM roadmaps. That means, stuff they are not actively working on, let alone having a planned release date.

 

[Mr Ee]

This post, I think.

Meet WiiM Ultra - The Digital Hub for Your Music

Indeed... It reminds me a bit of a cheap car stereo from AliExpress 🥴 luckily the multifunctional homescreen will stays out of sight most of the time. I think they were going to offer different themes though. Also: it wouldn't hurt add some sort of transition effect for the cover art, like a...

forum.wiimhome.com

 

[harkpabst]

This post, I think.

Meet WiiM Ultra - The Digital Hub for Your Music

Indeed... It reminds me a bit of a cheap car stereo from AliExpress 🥴 luckily the multifunctional homescreen will stays out of sight most of the time. I think they were going to offer different themes though. Also: it wouldn't hurt add some sort of transition effect for the cover art, like a...

forum.wiimhome.com

So, Disney Music first, then YouTube Music.

Yep, sounds like sales to me, he lives up to the expectations.

 

[jmudrick]

I was unable to use Youtube Music Premium to cast to a multiroom setup (with 3 X Wiim Pros).
I'm able to cast to one room. Then I use the sync feature to sync to all other rooms from the wiim app, but there isn't any sound coming out in the other rooms.

But from Spotify native to the WiiM app it works and I can select the rooms where the music plays and even the volume in each room.

Here's my setup:

3 X WiiM Pro
Room 1: living room
Room 2: patio
Room 3: bedroom

3 X Amps
Amp 1: Yamaha RX-V479
Amp 2 and Amp 3: Fosi Audio TB10D

All amps are connected to the WiiM Pros using RCA cables.
They go from the Line Out of each WiiM Pro to the line in of amps 1, 2 and 3.

The source is set to AV1 on the Yamaha.
The TB10D only have a single line in connector (red and white for stereo).

What am I doing wrong? A native Youtube from WiiM would so much simpler than this ;(

Or maybe just switch to Spotify. If only there was a way to import my hundreds of playlists...

You can create a group in the Google Home app including your WiiM and other Chromecast devices and play to all by casting to the Group using the YouTube Music app

 

[strumbringerwa]

Given that Sonos and Alexa integrate with YT Music, I think this should be possible (The API may not be public, but I am sure one exists). Would love to have native integration with it!

 

[Burnside]

Given that Sonos and Alexa integrate with YT Music, I think this should be possible (The API may not be public, but I am sure one exists). Would love to have native integration with it!

Alexa doesn’t integrate with YouTube Music as such - you’re perhaps confusing it with its ability to play videos from YouTube on its Show devices.

 

[strumbringerwa]

Alexa doesn’t integrate with YouTube Music as such - you’re perhaps confusing it with its ability to play videos from YouTube on its Show devices.

Oh sorry, I was confused. Apparently it supports Apple Music but not YT. But I know for a fact that Sonos does support YTM.