[GH-ISSUE #354] Is it possible to control playback from this? #281

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opened 2026-02-27 22:08:58 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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Originally created by @tsbertalan on GitHub (Feb 22, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/issues/354

It's not clear to me whether this is just for getting and changing data, or whether I can also control playback. It would be great if I didn't have to have a working sound system connected on the Python side, but instead could just control whatever authenticated player was currently active elsewhere, like phone app or a web player. That is, this library wouldn't handle actually streaming audio or video data, which I imagine will be much harder to add, but would just issue commands. Is this in scope?

Originally created by @tsbertalan on GitHub (Feb 22, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/issues/354 It's not clear to me whether this is just for getting and changing data, or whether I can also control playback. It would be great if I didn't have to have a working sound system connected on the Python side, but instead could just control whatever authenticated player was currently active elsewhere, like phone app or a web player. That is, this library wouldn't handle actually streaming audio or video data, which I imagine will be much harder to add, but would just issue commands. Is this in scope?

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@tsbertalan commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2023):

Really all I want is play/pause control. Something like this:

from time import sleep
from ytmusicapi import YTMusic
yt = YTMusic('headers_auth.json')
yt.play()
sleep(5)
yt.pause()

@tsbertalan commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2023): Really all I want is play/pause control. Something like this: ```python from time import sleep from ytmusicapi import YTMusic yt = YTMusic('headers_auth.json') yt.play() sleep(5) yt.pause() ```

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@sigma67 commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2023):

Short answer, no. You're looking for Spotify functionality. This is not Spotify.

@sigma67 commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2023): Short answer, no. You're looking for Spotify functionality. This is not Spotify.