Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: YouTube Music settings not visable

[vendion]

OS:

Arch Linux

GPMDP Version:

GPMDP version 4.6.0

Issue Descriptions:

The YouTube Music option is not visible for me, I'm in the U.S. so it's not a region issue, and I already have access to YouTube Music Early Access so I do have it with my Google account.

Issue #3188 seems to imply that to use YouTube Music you have to access the setting via a tray icon? If so this is useless as neither my window manager (Herbstluftwm) or my Lemon Bar setup makes use of or displays tray icons. (See screenshot to see what I am referring to)

Steps to Reproduce:
Run GPMDP on a system with a panel/bar that does not display tray icons and try to use YouTube Music from the app.

Please can there be another way within the main app window or within the Side bar/settings to toggle the YouTube Music support rather than relying on the assumption that every system has tray icons?

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[vendion]

Side note, normally I wouldn't even have the window decorations (borders as it is referred to in the app settings) so that the minimize, maximize, and close buttons would not even be displayed. I temporarily turned them on incase that would also display another set of menus but no such case.

[MarshallOfSound]

@vendion Currently the only place that option lives is in the tray menu. Once we have better UI injection support for YTM (this is one of the things we don't have working yet) I can add things like the "desktop settings" option into the YTM UI and then move the service switching into "Desktop Settings". It isn't there at the moment purely because we haven't solved the UI injection thing but that is something that will be worked on at some point.

For now you can edit the settings file manually if you want to get access to YTM and for whatever reason your linux setup doesn't have tray icon support 🤔

{
  "service": "youtube-music"
}

That is the setting you will need to add in your settings JSON file.

[vendion]

For now you can edit the settings file manually if you want to get access to YTM and for whatever reason your linux setup doesn't have tray icon support

The issue isn't for whatever reason, this is how I set it up I dislike tray icons, most of the time they are useless and take up screen space that could be better used for other things IMO. As such I never tried/bothered implementing a way for them to be on my bar. Assumptions are a very dangerous thing...

Anyways which file exactly should that setting be made? I don't see a _settings_ file under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Google\ Play\ Music\ Desktop\ Player

[~/.c/Google Play Music Desktop Player]─> pwd
/home/vendion/.config/Google Play Music Desktop Player
[~/.c/Google Play Music Desktop Player]─> tree
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│   └── index
├── Cookies
├── Cookies-journal
├── databases
│   ├── Databases.db
│   └── Databases.db-journal
├── File System
│   ├── 000
│   │   └── t
│   │       └── Paths
│   │           ├── 000003.log
│   │           ├── CURRENT
│   │           ├── LOCK
│   │           ├── LOG
│   │           ├── LOG.old
│   │           └── MANIFEST-000001
│   └── Origins
│       ├── 000003.log
│       ├── CURRENT
│       ├── LOCK
│       ├── LOG
│       ├── LOG.old
│       └── MANIFEST-000001
├── gpmdp.log
├── GPUCache
│   ├── data_0
│   ├── data_1
│   ├── data_2
│   ├── data_3
│   └── index
├── IndexedDB
│   └── https_play.google.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
│       ├── 000465.ldb
│       ├── 000466.ldb
│       ├── 000467.ldb
│       ├── 000468.ldb
│       ├── 000470.ldb
│       ├── 000471.log
│       ├── CURRENT
│       ├── LOCK
│       ├── LOG
│       ├── LOG.old
│       └── MANIFEST-000001
├── json_store
│   └── playback.json
├── Local Storage
│   ├── https_plus.google.com_0.localstorage
│   ├── https_plus.google.com_0.localstorage-journal
│   ├── https_www.youtube.com_0.localstorage
│   ├── https_www.youtube.com_0.localstorage-journal
│   └── leveldb
│       ├── 000003.log
│       ├── CURRENT
│       ├── LOCK
│       ├── LOG
│       ├── LOG.old
│       └── MANIFEST-000001
├── Preferences
├── QuotaManager
├── QuotaManager-journal
├── SingletonCookie -> 8676260439749116948
├── SingletonLock -> Vili-17408
└── SS -> /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.XoDmb6/SS

13 directories, 483 files

The _Preferences_ file is pretty sparse

{"brightray":{"media":{"device_id_salt":"LYlpQXGikgCWPJK/wFDzWA=="}}}

[MarshallOfSound]

@vendion It will be in json_stores/.settings.json

[vendion]

Thanks it is switched over now.

[serhiichuk]

@vendion It will be in json_stores/.settings.json

i my case (ubuntu 16.04) it's ~/.config/Google Play Music Desktop Player/json_store

[BadgerDaniel]

@vendion Currently the only place that option lives is in the tray menu. Once we have better UI injection support for YTM (this is one of the things we don't have working yet) I can add things like the "desktop settings" option into the YTM UI and then move the service switching into "Desktop Settings". It isn't there at the moment purely because we haven't solved the UI injection thing but that is something that will be worked on at some point.

For now you can edit the settings file manually if you want to get access to YTM and for whatever reason your linux setup doesn't have tray icon support 🤔

{
  "service": "youtube-music"
}

That is the setting you will need to add in your settings JSON file.

running windows, and I do not see the options either, I reproduced all the steps above.

[jostrander]

In windows you have a tray icon in the lower right that you can right click and open the settings, unless you've hidden the tray icon for GPMDP.

[e1himself]

Just tried the instructions on 4.6.1 and it doesn't work. Every time I change service to youtube-music and start GPMDP, it opens the usual Google Play Music UI and also reverts the settings file back.

Ubuntu 18.04

:man_shrugging:

[wuppious]

@e1himself I had this same problem on Arch Linux, but I realised that I had GPMDP open while editing the file and closing GPMDP overwrote it. Make sure you edit the settings when GPMDP is not open.