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Play a YouTube video from the terminal in WSL with PulseAudio
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play.sh
#!/bin/bash
export PULSE_SERVER="tcp:$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print $2}')"
pulseaudio --start
# replace USER with a username, VIDEO with a YouTube video ID, and TERMINAL with an terminal (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc.)
pasuspender -- /home/USER/.local/bin/youtube-dl -o - "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO" | mpv - --no-terminal --really-quiet --display-tags-clr --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui > /dev/null & disown; sleep 4 && kill `ps -axjf | grep -m 1 "\_ TERMINAL" | awk '{print $2}'`; exit
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Currently doesn't work because youtube-dl gives 403 - or do I need to update?

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