mnd wrote: > When we open youtube.com with a browser, we can toggle the "autoplay" > button, if it is enabled - related videos play automatically. And if > it's a music video that you are watching, probably some of the songs by > the same artist will be played next, followed with other related songs > of related artists. > > Now if we want to listen to youtube on LMS, we can either open an > already created playlist or play a single song, or open the search > results of a single song or artist as a playlist. But there is no option > for songs to "autoplay" without a preordered playlist and letting > youtube decide what song comes up next, I think. > > So a workaround that I was thinking about would be to open youtube.com > on an android device's browser and let it autoplay from whatever song > that was last searched for. But I didn't find a way to forward the video > ID from the youtube.com webpage to LMS by generating links like in > rwanou's example. I know that this could need more work than it's worth > it, but got curious anyway if that could be achieved. > > My main usecase for this would be at the gatherings of my friends. Since > my music library is not much suitable for parties and I'm too lazy to > create party playlists, so before I changed from a usb DAC to a DLNA > one, I would just use the laptop for youtube, so anyone could search for > their favourite songs, and music that is related to the last search > would just keep on playing. But now with the DLNA device, there is no > need for me to boot up the computer when I want to listen to music, or > to keep the computer in the room where I listen to the music. But for > the youtube usage that I described I still haven't found a way, other > than bringing back the computer and the USB DAC. > > I know I could easily use spotify for that, but probably that would > require subscription and I don't want to spend money on stuff I would > use only occasionally.
Perhaps a YouTube mixer for "Don't Stop the Music" could be ceated for this? If this new plugin could detect the current song is from YouTube, then perhaps it could query YouTube for the related tracks and add those... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cpd73's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66686 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105840 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
