Listen along on Discord without opening browser

[Hooooooman]

trafficstars

How do I listen along on discord without opening browser and redirect the link to the app seamlessly

[Zo-Bro-23]

Currently, you can't, but it is possible to add a feature that does this using App URLs or xdg-open (start in Windows) so that you see the "Open with X app?" prompt in the browser (or perhaps even directly; not sure if that is possible though).

@Araxeus interested?

[Araxeus]

That's an interesting idea...

After #946 we might be able to directly launch youtube music with the new protocol.

Just have to add a few new commands like load the url which is currently not possible on song-controls

The problem is:

If a user click the listen along button and doesn't have youtube-music installed - it won't do anything

Considering the fact above, I'm not sure how to do it

[Zo-Bro-23]

That's an interesting idea...

After #946 we might be able to directly launch youtube music with the new protocol.

Just have to add a few new commands like load the url which is currently not possible on song-controls

The problem is:

If a user click the listen along button and doesn't have youtube-music installed - it won't do anything

Considering the fact above, I'm not sure how to do it

A browser redirect would probably be best in that case. If YTM is installed, it should prompt to open the song in YTM; otherwise, it can redirect to https://music.youtube.com.

Actually, doing that for all https://music.youtube.com URLs would be cool! We can have a browser extension that redirects all YTM URLs to the app!

[Hooooooman]

That's an interesting idea...

After #946 we might be able to directly launch youtube music with the new protocol.

Just have to add a few new commands like load the url which is currently not possible on song-controls

The problem is:

If a user click the listen along button and doesn't have youtube-music installed - it won't do anything

Considering the fact above, I'm not sure how to do it

Yea I think it would be a good addition to the app, many of my friends tends to use youtube music because of this repository but it lacks the option to listen along like spotify, I personally like youtube music(especially this desktop version) because of comparatively better recommendations and the ability to watch music video without opening the browser. I really hope this idea turns into a feature soon :)

[xamionex]

Another idea i just came up for discord directly opening ytm is to make a second button, I know you can make the rich presences have 2 buttons so you could make a 2nd one saying "Listen Along in YTMusic App". This could save users with the app some time with having the app open the link directly and no browser launching. (of course it'd only work with people with the app but that's why we'd have 2 buttons instead)

[Rairof]

Just putting this out here as a referenced feature example picture for others to see- I'm on board with this idea, hope it gets created soon enough :)