play

#!/bin/bash

# copied from https://github.com/exogen/dotfiles/blob/730fb8e2b72b2fc3aa3d90b889874bb5195e1d07/.profile#L65

# Skip DASH manifest for speed purposes. This might actually disable
# being able to specify things like 'bestaudio' as the requested format,
# but try anyway.
# Get the best audio that isn't WebM, because afplay doesn't support it.
# Use "$*" so that quoting the requested song isn't necessary.

youtube-dl --default-search=ytsearch: \
           --youtube-skip-dash-manifest \
           --output="${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" \
           --restrict-filenames \
           --format="bestaudio[ext!=webm]" \
           --exec=mplayer "$*"