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[Feature Request]: Audio Only #3220

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opened 2025-04-10 18:00:02 +00:00 by MidnightQuery · 5 comments

MidnightQuery commented

2025-04-10 18:00:02 +00:00

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I use the latest version of YouTube Music (Application).
I have searched the issue tracker for a feature request that matches the one I want to file, without success.

Problem Description

Plays only the audio and not the video to save bandwidth

Proposed Solution

This userscript has managed to implemented true audio only mode that does not load the video https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/486384-youtube-music-audio-only

It has also been implemented on Youtube Music Revanced Extended by inotia00:
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/issues/1353
https://github.com/inotia00/ReVanced_Extended/issues/1431
https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/issues/88

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### Preflight Checklist - [x] I use the latest version of YouTube Music (Application). - [x] I have searched the [issue tracker](https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/issues) for a feature request that matches the one I want to file, without success. ### Problem Description Plays only the audio and not the video to save bandwidth ### Proposed Solution This userscript has managed to implemented true audio only mode that does not load the video https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/486384-youtube-music-audio-only It has also been implemented on Youtube Music Revanced Extended by inotia00: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/issues/1353 https://github.com/inotia00/ReVanced_Extended/issues/1431 https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/issues/88 ### Additional Information _No response_

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arjix commented

2025-04-10 18:40:46 +00:00

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The links for revanced don't appear to have any actual implementation about this feature, I even went through the mentioned revanced patches release and didn't see anything in the diff.

anyways- that userscript is....wow, it must have taken a lot of research to make
it patches like a billion different things

I'll certainly give this a look later this weekend.

The links for revanced don't appear to have any actual implementation about this feature, I even went through the mentioned revanced patches release and didn't see anything in the diff. anyways- that userscript is....wow, it must have taken a lot of research to make it patches like a billion different things I'll certainly give this a look later this weekend.

JellyBrick commented

2025-04-10 22:18:55 +00:00

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Implementing this behavior would require patching a large amount of internal code and would likely break most behaviors that rely on the <video> element.

Implementing this behavior would require patching a large amount of internal code and would likely break most behaviors that rely on the `<video>` element.

MidnightQuery commented

2025-04-11 01:06:32 +00:00

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The links for revanced don't appear to have any actual implementation about this feature, I even went through the mentioned revanced patches release and didn't see anything in the diff.

anyways- that userscript is....wow, it must have taken a lot of research to make it patches like a billion different things

I'll certainly give this a look later this weekend.

42cc8201f5/extensions/shared/src/main/java/app/revanced/extension/music/patches/misc/AlbumMusicVideoPatch.java (L18) This?

> The links for revanced don't appear to have any actual implementation about this feature, I even went through the mentioned revanced patches release and didn't see anything in the diff. > > anyways- that userscript is....wow, it must have taken a lot of research to make it patches like a billion different things > > I'll certainly give this a look later this weekend. https://github.com/inotia00/revanced-patches/blob/42cc8201f5dfcc05f785e578475c4e7e52c3ecfd/extensions/shared/src/main/java/app/revanced/extension/music/patches/misc/AlbumMusicVideoPatch.java#L18 This?

arjix commented

2025-04-11 05:01:41 +00:00

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So it's not an official patch

MidnightQuery commented

2025-04-11 05:46:30 +00:00

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So it's not an official patch

Yeah, it's my bad. Should had mentioned it's implemented in Youtube Music Revanced Extended by inotia00.
Though the implementation on first glance seem to differs quite a bit. The userscript patches the player code to force an audio-only mode, effectively disabling or bypassing the video track without loading or rendering the video content. While the RVX Music detects if the video belongs to an album, then fetches the corresponding official audio track and redirects playback to that audio.
The userscript seems like it is more comprehensive than the Youtube Music Revanced Extended, but might be a nightmare to implement as it patches so many things.

> So it's not an official patch Yeah, it's my bad. Should had mentioned it's implemented in Youtube Music Revanced Extended by inotia00. Though the implementation on first glance seem to differs quite a bit. The userscript patches the player code to force an audio-only mode, effectively disabling or bypassing the video track without loading or rendering the video content. While the RVX Music detects if the video belongs to an album, then fetches the corresponding official audio track and redirects playback to that audio. The userscript seems like it is more comprehensive than the Youtube Music Revanced Extended, but might be a nightmare to implement as it patches so many things.

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