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Exploring YouTube audio streaming in Emacs with ready-player

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12d ago· 2 min readenInsight

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Summary

The article discusses the author's experience using the Emacs package 'ready-player' for music listening, and their desire to extend it for streaming YouTube audio. The author considers ready-player fairly feature-complete for offline playback but notes its file-driven approach (using dired as a core abstraction) makes it unsuitable for streaming without major refactoring. The piece appears to be an informal exploration of whether an Emacs-based streaming workflow would be practical, written from a personal developer/hacker perspective.

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Hacker NewsExploring YouTube audio streaming in Emacs with ready-playerxenodium.com

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I've been a happy ready-player user for some time now. I consider the Emacs package fairly feature-complete, for my needs anyway.

While I've successfully migrated most of my music-listening to offline playback, there are the odd times when I enjoy streaming YouTube audio.

I've pondered extending ready-player for this use case, but its current approach is fairly file-driven. For starters, it uses dired as a core abstraction.

Before venturing on a major refactoring, without even knowing if an Emacs streaming flow would stick...

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I've been a happy ready-player user for some time now. I consider the Emacs package fairly feature-complete, for my needs anyway. Well almost. While I...

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