Searching for youtube video hits and info requires a GPM subscription

[gcfrxbots]

This might be an incredibly stupid issue, but it looks like users that don't subscribe to google play music aren't able to search for songs based on video_hits or extract a youtube video.

Is there any possible workaround for this, or do you absolutely have to sub to GPM?

[simon-weber]

I don't think there's anything different about what the client is sending in each case, so I'm not sure there's a workaround.