Play Youtube audio to Sonos

Use this Python app to play Youtube audio on your Sonos speaker.

Working principle:

• grab the audio for the specified video link
• store it on a local shared network location
• instruct the Sonos speaker to play music from a local network storage

Usage

Use it over the command line:

python playYoutube.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxx

Use the gui:

python gui.py

Installation

The app relies on multiple libraries, the most important being:

• youtube-dl
• SoCo

To install them all, execute the command below.

sudo ./requirementsInstall.sh

Create samba share

Create a publicly accessible network share via SAMBA named "music" pointing to:

/srv/music

Create a directory named "youtube2sonos" inside the "music" directory. If this directory is missing, app will try to create it.

/srv/music/youtube2sonos

Create application shortcut

Create an application shortcut in Xubuntu:

• edit the file icon/youtube2sonos.desktop, by setting up the paths of the icon and the executable
• copy the file youtube2sonos.desktop to /usr/share/applications/

Limitations

The music will be played on the first speaker the app finds.