jakym 0.3

Just Another Konsole YouTube-Music

Just Another Konsole YouTube-Music

Overview

I wanted to create this application so that I could use the command line to play music easily. I often play games and listen to music simultaneously but using either Spotify or playing music in a browser takes much-needed resources from my CPU and RAM.

I have spent a lot of time looking through numerous CLI based music players. But they either required setting up lots of things, needed premium features to function or sometimes flat out didn't work even after tinkering with them for hours. Hence I thought that instead of looking for a solution, I should code it myself.

So I present to you JAKYM, Just Another Konsole YouTube-Music.

Usage

• Run the program by using jakym command jakym or alternatively call it as a python module python -m jakym
• This will open up the jakym command window.
• Type spotify to play music using spotify playlist
• Type youtube to play music using youtube playlist
• Enter a songname in command window to search for song or just enter its youtube link to play directly from a link.
• Jakym will queue the song once you type it and allow you to add the next song.
• The queue operates independent of the command window and plays the song on a separate thread.
• To exit the command window and hence the application simply type exit.

Installation

To Update jakym simply run pip install --upgrade jakym

Installing ffmpeg

ffmpeg is required for this program to work correctly. Install ffmpeg by following these steps :-

• On Linux - https://www.tecmint.com/install-ffmpeg-in-linux/
• On Windows - https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows

Installing simpleaudio

simpleaudio is an optional pydub dependency, however as it is essential for proper working of jakym. Not installing simpleaudio gives major issues on both Linux and Windows.

On Linux

• Install Dependencies by sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev libasound2-dev
• Install with: pip install simpleaudio

On Windows

• Download the .whl file of simpleaudio from here
• Once downloaded, it can be installed using the following command : pip install package_name.whl

Installing jakym

• Install by using pypi :-pip install jakym

• Run using jakym command jakym or call it as a python module python -m jakym

Violla jakym is now installed!

Enjoy jakym

How It Works

• The program starts and runs two threads, one to input music into the playlist and the other to iterate over the playlist and download the corresponding music and play it.
• The youtube-dl library does most of the heavy lifting of both parsing links and downloading them into a suitable file format.
• The pydub and simpleaudio libraries provide cross-platform audio playback without any issues but setting up simpleaudio on windows and Linux take a different approach.
• The program runs until user specifically types exit.

Version history

Version	Improvements
0.3	Added Youtube Playlist support, Improved Readme
0.2	Added Spotify playlist support, Bug fixes
0.1.1	Improved documentation, Command line integration
0.1	Initial release

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Copyright

Copyright (c) 2021 Mayank Jha

License - GNU GPL v3