Youtube playback

Rmpc can play videos from youtube, soundcloud and nicovideo, but needs a little setup before it can do that. Only single songs can be added at a time. For youtube, playlists are supported as well. Be careful though because executing addyt for a playlist will start downloading all contained songs, this action might take some time to finish and cannot be stopped except by terminating rmpc.

1. Install yt-dlp and have it available in your PATH.
2. Install yt-dlp’s dependencies: ffmpeg, ffprobe, python3 and python’s mutagen library.
3. Configure rmpc’s cache directory in your config file
4. Connect to MPD with a local socket and not IP address.
5. Add music to the queue:
   • From a URL (YouTube/SoundCloud/NicoVideo): rmpc addyt <url>  (TUI: addyt <url>)
   • Search by name (first result, YouTube): rmpc searchyt “search terms”  (TUI: searchyt “search terms”)
   • Search SoundCloud: rmpc searchyt -s “search terms”  (TUI: searchyt -s “search terms”)
   • Interactive pick (choose from a list): add —interactive (TUI opens a picker) — e.g. rmpc searchyt —interactive “search terms”
   • Limit candidates: add —limit <N> to fetch the first N search results
   • Optional position: add —position <n|+n|-n> to enqueue at an absolute or relative position

Caution

MPD will not be able to add songs from outside its music directory if not connected through local socket.

Note

Tested with:

• yt-dlp 2024.07.25
• ffmpeg 7.0.1

Example

mpd.conf

bind_to_address "/tmp/mpd_socket"

rmpc/config.ron

(
    address: "/tmp/mpd_socket",
    cache_dir: Some("/tmp/rmpc/cache"),
    ...
)