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YouTube to MPD

Front end for youtube-dl to auto add YouTube music to Music Player Daemon (MPD).

Features:

• Download music from YouTube videos
• Download music from YouTube playlists
• Add them to mpd to allow easy playback

Upcoming features:

• Create folders/mpd playlists for every YouTube playlist

Install from the Python Package Index:

• pip install youtube_to_mpd. (Linux & Windows)
• Package can be found here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/youtube_to_mpd/

Install from source:

• run setup.py install (with root privileges)

Usage:

• Download a single song and add to MPD: python -m youtube_to_mpd -s SONGID (for example: DgQR0x5ljek)
• Download a playlist and add to MPD: python -m youtube_to_mpd -p PLAYLISTID (for example: FLoLRVbYOEns6PTJtWo0Y_7g)

Easy usage:

Configure:

• Add the following to your ".bashrc": alias playlist:'python -m youtube_to_mpd -p'
• Add the following to your ".bashrc": alias song:'python -m youtube_to_mpd -s'
• Start a new console session

Then run:

• song SONGID (for example: song mIBTg7q9oNc)
• playlist LISTID (for example: playlist RDmIBTg7q9oNc)

Limitations:

• Make sure you put the "settings.conf" file in your current path (issue #5)
• Developed and tested on Debian Wheezy

Dependencies:

• youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
• Music Player Daemon: http://www.musicpd.org

License:

If not stated otherwise "YouTube to MPD" is distributed in terms of the GPL software license. See COPYING file in the distribution for details.

Bug reports:

• Jeroen Doggen jeroendoggen@gmail.com
• Post issues to GitHub https://github.com/jeroendoggen/youtube-to-mpd/issues.