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 [email protected]
Post issues to GitHub https://github.com/jeroendoggen/youtube-to-mpd/issues.