ytTerm player (BETA)

Play youtube playlists as audio on linux terminal

About

ytTerm player is a terminal youtube music player. It's completely written in python.

UI: Made using a wrapper for curses called urwid

Player: Handled using python-mpv

Stream fetch: Audio streams from youtube are fetched using pafy

Features:

Import and play youtube playlists on terminal
Save playlists in library
Use several playback modes such as repeat one, repeat list, random
Download complete list (coming soon)

Installation

Set up a virtual environment and install the dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

python3 pip :-

$ pip install ytermplayer
$ yterm

or Git clone :-

$ git clone https://github.com/TimeTraveller-San/yTermPlayer
$ cd yTermPlayer/yTermPlayer/
$ python __main__.py

Dependencies

Python 3

ytTerm player uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

urwid
python-mpv
pafy
python3
mpv player (sudo pacman -S mpv) or (sudo apt-get install mpv)

ytTerm player itself is open source. Feel free to modify and distribute the code

KeyBindings

Key	Function
s	save current list
enter	select option/play song at selection
n	play next song
p	play previous song
h	play first song
e	play last song
space	pause/play song
u	volume up
d	volume down
q	quit
1	playback mode: Repeat one
2	playback mode: Repeat list
3	playback mode: None
r	playback mode: Random

more features coming soon

Screenshots

Start screen :

Start Screem

The UI will automatically use your terminal colors.

Blue Yellow

Working video: https://youtu.be/rQpO1qBmxlY

Working video 2: https://youtu.be/bQrNtcIcHc0

FAQ

How to fix out of range/url not found errors?

YouTube keeps changing its structure so it's important you have installed the latest version of youtube-dl as follows: pip install --upgrade youtube_dl

Where are my playlists stored and how to delete playlists?

Playlists are saved in $HOME/.yTermPlayer/playlists as plain text. You may delete or add new playlists directly here.

How to contact me?

Email: time.traveller.san@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/timetravellertt

Known Bugs

~~Buggy / unexpected playback behavior~~ It was caused because of race conditions and absence of critical section among the threads. Fixed it using semaphores
~~If some VLC error starts showing up on the screen, just resize the terminal and it will be gone~~ Completely removed VLC and replaced it with much more minimal and faster mpv player. Thank to python-mpv by jaseg