Author Topic: Viewing youtube videos  (Read 3843 times)

Godwin

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Hi,

Been using Musicbee for a week now I find it really amazing how customizable it is. I'm still customizing the application to fit my needs.

Now I'm trying to integrate youtube to view videos of the songs I play. With the latest update, I'm using the following web link to play the video directly off youtube.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q="<Title>-<Artist>"&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=site:youtube.com&tbo=1&num=50&safe=

It works really well. But having the entire site to load is distracting and it doesn't give a good viewing experience. It would be really nice if MusicBee can manipulate youtube links and play only the video content while stripping the rest. It's actually really simple. There is a button on the player which will popup the player. In order to get the link of the popup do the following:
A normal youtube link would be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0

Change "watch" to "watch_popup"
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0

So what MusicBee should do is when it detects a youtube link it should automatically run in popup mode by just replacing "watch" to "watch_popup" in the URL.
Can that be done ?

butty

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Hi, besides technical details, it's great if YouTube's contents can be imported to MB's lib. :)
My image is that drag an YouTube's URL into MB's media lib, and the URL is treated as an ordinary music or video track. Wow!

Godwin

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Wow, I can't believe there is actually a plugin for Winamp that can do this.
http://www.winamp.com/plugin/minitube-plays-music-video-of-your-mp3/221700

I would love to see something like that in MB.