How to play youtube song in terminal with ffplay and youtube-dl

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Is there any you to stream any music the terminal with youtube-dl and ffplay I know that ffplay can play audio with shell $ audio stram | ffplay -i -

Sanaf · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-14T09:29:30.530

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You can try this:

youtube-dl -f bestaudio  ytsearch:"SONG NAME" -o - 2>/dev/null | ffplay -nodisp -autoexit -i - &>/dev/null

Or:

youtube-dl -f bestaudio VIDEO_URL -o - 2>/dev/null | ffplay -nodisp -autoexit -i - &>/dev/null

edited Mar 14 '23 at 09:29

answered Jul 17 '21 at 14:29

Sanaf

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Can you please explain this command? I know the basic usage of youtube-dl. – codingbruh Oct 31 '22 at 19:36
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https://linuxhint.com/what_is_dev_null/ This was interesting I didn't know it. Thanks – codingbruh Oct 31 '22 at 19:56
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In this case youtube-dl not writing the downloaded data to a file instead it's piping it to ffplay to play directly. – Sanaf Nov 01 '22 at 10:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '22 at 17:32

..and if you mordernize the command a little you can play YT-videos from the terminal without ads.

youtube-dl -f mp4 YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL -o - 2>/dev/null | ffplay -autoexit -i - &>/dev/null

Due to YouTube at the moment are throttlening youtube-dl I'm now using yt-dlp instead. Same codebase but no throttlening :)

yt-dlp -f mp4 YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL -o - 2>/dev/null | ffplay -autoexit -i - &>/dev/null

How to play youtube song in terminal with ffplay and youtube-dl

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