Re: Adding a description text property for a track

[Yoni Rabkin]

Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 15 2022, Yoni Rabkin wrote:
>
>>
>> We can't add this as it is at the moment since it tries, as far as I can
>> tell, to run any "https" entry through ytdl. I have plenty of https
>> streams that are simply internet radio stations and other such streams
>> that have nothing to do with the software ytdl supports.
>>
>
> Also note the defvar emms-info-ytdl-regexp in the code, which whitelists
> the url patterns emms-info-ytdl will run.  If you only want to use
> emms-info-ytdl for a specific set of sites, just set this var.

Here is the article I was looking for:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.en.html

It states: "The free program youtube-dl is also available; it gets data
out of the site's JavaScript code but doesn't run that code."

I think that helps answer the question. But is also lists what's wrong
with youtube (and by extension sites like it.)

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