#mps-youtube

[linuxart]

mps-youtube 0.2.4 was released today and with this version, the app was migrated to YouTube API v3. This is an important change because the old v2 API was shut down recently so previous mps-youtube versions no longer work. Another important change in this release is the addition of MPRIS v2 support, which means that mps-youtube can now make use of Ubuntu's Sound Menu, GNOME Shell Media Player Indicator extension and so on. mps-youtube is a command line YouTube audio player which supports both local and YouTube playlists (with built-in YouTube search). By default, the app plays only the audio (it only downloads the audio stream, great for those with limited data plans) however, you can enable video playback from its options and in this case, mpv or mplayer is used to play the videos (other players might work, but only mpv and mplayer are officially supported). Other mps-youtube features include downloading YouTube audio/video (including 1080p videos) - either single videos or complete YouTube playlists, transcode audio to mp3 and other formats (requires ffmpeg or avconv), optional system notifications as well as many other small but useful features. 

For Windows and Mac OS X installation instructions, bug reports and so on, see the mps-youtube GitHub page - https://github.com/np1/mps-youtube.

[linuxart]

MPS-YOUTUBE was updated to version 0.2.2 (and shortly after to 0.2.3) - sudo pip install mps-youtube --upgrade - recently, bringing some interesting new features, like an option to use an external application for downloading YouTube videos and others (http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html), metadata tagging of downloaded audio files and more. Here's a list of the most important mps-youtube features: -search and play audio / video from YouTube; -search tracks of albums by album title; -search and import YouTube playlists; -create and save local playlists; -download audio / video from YouTube, including option to download full YouTube playlists, with support for DASH (so it can mux separate audio and video streams - that means it can download 1080p YouTube videos since all 1080p YouTube videos use DASH) - requires avconv or ffmpeg; -transcode audio to mp3 and other formats (requires ffmpeg or avconv); -system notifications; -view video comments; -works under LINUX, WINDOWS and MAC OSX; -many other small but useful features. Now back to MPS-YOUTUBE 0.2.2 (and 0.2.3, which was released shortly after 0.2.2). Probably the most important new feature is the addition of an option which allows setting an external application for downloading YouTube audio/video. This means you can use something like aria2, which supports multiple connections. It's important to mention that using an external download command does not support (at least for now) transcoding the downloaded file to another format directly from mps-youtube. Other changes in MPS-YOUTUBE 0.2.2 and 0.2.3: -implemented skip to previous track. Use > and < keys for next and previous track, q for quit (was ctrl-c). mpv / mplayer input.conf can be imported to use custom keymappings; -implemented metadata tagging of downloaded audio files (requires ffmpeg or avconv). This feature is not complete and currently, it uses the YouTube video title as metadata; -the stream quality is now displayed in the status line; -fixed progress bar for mpv 0.7; -fixed YouTube comments overshoot window size; -fixed issue with audio remux when using d download command; -fixed issue with "set" command.