[Feature request] Scrobbling from YouTube

[pmmontanari]

Basically the title; I just noticed that the scrobbling option is greyed out for YouTube. It's the only media source that's greyed out, so I don't know if there are any limitations that make this actually impossible to implement.

[rekkyrosso]

It's not easy to determine the artist/song from a YouTube title. So it needs some additional work and probably some kind of human interaction. That's why it's greyed out for now.

[pmmontanari]

I see. It is true, I already had a lot of problems with scrobbling from YouTube with other apps. I am currently using Web Scrobbler, and it does an excellent job with YouTube so far.

I had some workaround ideas like proposing to implement it in Ampcast, but it is a web extension so I don't know if it would be feasible.

Maybe a very stretchy workaround could be to allow for connection with YouTube even in the web version of Ampcast (I just saw it is possible only on the desktop version). In this way at least in the web Ampcast could act as a playlist manager, while other apps (such as Web Scrobbler) could do the job of Scrobbling.

Note: just saw now that in the web, when playing a song from YouTube in Ampcast, Web Scrobbler doesn't work. Maybe a I could ask for a connection with Ampcast in Web Scrobbler's GitHub, for example. Do you think that would that be feasible?

Edit: grammar

[rekkyrosso]

Maybe a I could ask for a connection with Ampcast in Web Scrobbler's GitHub, for example. Do you think that would that be feasible?

It's feasible. But Ampcast already scrobbles everything except YouTube. So it is probably easier if I just add YouTube scrobbling to Ampcast.

If Ampcast gets added to WebScrobbler then it could lead to a lot of double scrobbling.

I'll make sure to add YouTube scrobbling in the next release. It's been greyed out too long.

[pmmontanari]

I was taking a look on how Web Scrobbler works for YouTube. It has four options to handle music recognition:

1. Scrobble only videos that are recognized by YouTube Music as music
2. Use Youtube Music to get track info
3. Scrobble videos from "Music" category
4. Scrobble videos from "Entertainment" category

I use it only the 1st and the 3rd options enabled. I was thinking maybe this could be implemented in Ampcast, but it would require communicating with YouTube Music. Maybe too much of an overhead to be worth.

If there are plans to implement other streaming services, such as YT Music, then it might be worth.

[pmmontanari]

Sorry, actually, I was mistaken. I'm using options 2 and 3. They work well. If I activate the first one basically nothing is scrobbled. There are some false positives with the other two, but overall it works well.