/youtube-music-now-playing

Plugin for th-ch/youtube-music that saves the current playing song to a file

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

youtube-music-now-playing

A plugin for th-ch/youtube-music that saves the current playing song to a file named foobar_np.txt, much like the Foobar2000 now playing plugin.

Created to be used with gamesense-essentials.

Installation

Before starting make sure th-ch/youtube-music is closed.

Disclaimer: installing the plugin like this is probably error prone and will probably make it disappear after an automatic update.

  1. Install 7-Zip
  2. Download Asar7z
  3. Navigate to C:\Program Files\7-Zip
  4. Create a folder named Formats
  5. Unpack the downloaded .dll files from Asar7z into the newly created folder
  6. Navigate to the location where you installed Youtube Music, for me C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Programs\youtube-music where <USERNAME> is your username and open the folder named resources
  7. Open app.asar with 7-Zip and in 7-Zip navigate to plugins
  8. Create a folder named now-playing
  9. Download back.js and place this file inside the newly created folder
  10. Open Youtube Music and enable the now-playing plugin