Music player that plays Youtube playlists

Question

I have tried all music players recommended in answers for similar questions, but I haven't found a player meeting the following requirements:

• Plays youtube playlists smoothly (caches the audio before playing, I mostly don't care about video)
• Allows to choose quality
• Normalizes volume
• Lightweight

Is there such a music player?

Answer 1

TOMAHAWK Player
http://www.tomahawk-player.org

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomahawk/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tomahawk

• Take a look at the screencast:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qb-gVIPWWcc

• For more detailed direction see:
  How to build Tomahawk on Ubuntu 12.04 (wiki.tomahawk-player.org/mediawiki/index.php/Building_Ubuntu_Binary_on_Precise_(12.04)).

Note:
Phonon-VLC is the recommended audio backend for Ubuntu as there are known issues with others. So please make sure the package phonon-backend-vlc is installed rather than phonon-backend-gstreamer.

Answer 2

If it really is music videos you are only interested in, musictube might be the right application for you. It's from the same developer as minitube.

Answer 3

There is a video and music player called MiniTube. It can play Youtube videos and playlists and is very lightweight. Just search for it in the Software Center.

If this doesn't work, you could also try the XBMC Media Center. XBMC plays almost every music/video file and it supports YouTube videos/playlists.

Note: XBMC is a full Media Center. It is a very big and powerful application. I think that you are searching for a more lightweight player.

Answer 4

As YouTube is a video site, you are unlikely to find a music player with support for it. Also, even if you do, you should note that the YouTube API is fairly restrictive in what those apps would be allowed to do anyway, and you will likely only be able to get the low-quality versions of any videos, even those which may have 1080p video and 5.1 audio in the original upload.

Answer 5

Actually the default Movie Player (aka Totem) is capable of doing that:

But I have to admit, that it is not very advanced and does not meet all your needs. But there might be a lot of plugins out there, since it is a quite popular default player.

Answer 6

http://www.youqueue.co.uk Music Queuer is a website which will allow you to play lists of you tube videos non stop, you can create a playlist of youtube videos or soundcloud songs and play them all as if they are in one player. The website indexes music via categories so that it is more music orientated in an album artist fashion.

Answer 7

One to look out for is Miro if you haven't already tried. The reason why I am not saying install it is the youtube and other features that require flash are presently not working in Ubuntu 11.10 but I expect there to be a future update that fixes it soon.

Jake

Answer 8

I don't know if it'll meet your precise requirements, but have you given Minitube a shot? It's a very nice application that should go a long way towards helping you. Here is a link to the PPA's page: https://launchpad.net/~neversfelde/+archive/minitube