Song Choice

[Mennaruuk]

Describe the bug Some songs are different from the ones in Spotify. It looks like spotube is fetching the top YouTube Music result, which sometimes can be different.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add a song like Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol to your playlist
2. Play it

Around 2:09, Gary sings:

Let's waste time Chasing cars Around our heads.

Then the beat drops.

In reality, there is another stanza following that before the beat drops:

I need your grace To remind me To find my own

Expected behavior I want spotube to get the original song. This means that most of the time, official music videos are not good for this because there is a whole bunch of other stuff added (it's a video). But even with audio, I feel like there should be preference given to channels that make lyrics videos such as 7clouds or DopeLyrics, they usually do a good job at cutting out all the fluff while maintaining integrity.

Installation Source/Method

• Package Manager: Binary
• Community Repo: Binary
• Binary Source: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/releases/download/v1.2.0/Spotube-windows-x86_64-setup.exe

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows
• Version: v1.2.0

Additional context Thanks for your assistance.

[masasin]

Can confirm that this still happens. An example is most things by ARASHI. e.g. Hitomi no Naka no Galaxy gives you a fan doing her own cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4of4ydLOjo&t=0

There are better versions, including many with titles that match better, but they don't get played.

[KRTirtho]

Spotube ranks tracks by track name, artist(s) name(s), author & views Ranking system is followed by:

• Checks if a youtube result contains the complete title (without artists) of the Spotify Track
• Checks if the primary artist of Spotify is the author of the channel (not that important)
• Checks if all the Spotify artist's name(s) are included in the Youtube result's title
• Checks if the YouTube result is not a Live Video or a crop/cut from a Live Video

See if all the checks apply for the track you're reporting

[masasin]

It looks like the video fulfills all of the conditions. The official band's title was in Japanese, and her video was the second result.

Is it possible to search for the original language? If I change my phone to Japanese, Spotify shows me the song names in Japanese, but Spotube still shows it in English (with that fan's rendition).

(Edit: and the Japanese version is the karaoke version by someone else.)

On Mon, May 16, 2022, 15:12 Kingkor Roy Tirtho @.***> wrote:

Spotube ranks tracks by track name, artist(s) name(s), author & views Ranking system is followed by:

• Checks if a youtube result contains the complete title (without artists) of the Spotube Track
• Checks if the primary artist of Spotube is the author of the channel (not that important)
• Checks if all the Spotify artist's name(s) are included in the Youtube result's title
• Checks if the YouTube result is not a Live Video or a crop/cut from a Live Video

See if all the checks apply for the track you're reporting

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[braboobssiere]

is it possible to custom search parameters?

i want to strictly search by channel title, song title, artist, duration (to match the spotify length) +-2 second in that order

[koboingangkang]

Spotube ranks tracks by track name, artist(s) name(s), author & views Ranking system is followed by:

• Checks if a youtube result contains the complete title (without artists) of the Spotify Track
• Checks if the primary artist of Spotify is the author of the channel (not that important)
• Checks if all the Spotify artist's name(s) are included in the Youtube result's title
• Checks if the YouTube result is not a Live Video or a crop/cut from a Live Video

See if all the checks apply for the track you're reporting

if we are to play tracks from spotify (our playlist or not), why spotube has to research again? why doesn't it play from song(s) based on songs id directly? moreover, can we opt out youtube?

[Elendil211]

I get very good results with this search term: $MAIN_ARTIST $TITLE $FEATURED_ARTISTS, description:\"Auto-generated by YouTube.\" in combination with YouTube's Top choice track match algorithm. The thing at the end leads to results from youtube music being preferred. It's also not perfect, though. Sometimes Spotube also finds different results than what I find when searching in the browser. Matching the length would probably help very much.

[KRTirtho]

After v2.6.0 users can override search result and can select from the range of results found initially. And it is known as Alternative Track Sources The selected track source will be cached to disk, so next time listening to it will load the user overridden result as source This should resolve the issue for now

[vehosah]

For me it still plays the audio from the video 🙁