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Ashish-Bansal / audio-only-youtube

Listen to only audio on youtube.
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Please tell us why it works with some (most) YouTube videos but not all ? #118

Open JVD66 opened 3 months ago

JVD66 commented 3 months ago

Hi -

Audio Only Youtube extension generally works OK under Chrome : Version 129.0.6614.3 (Official Build) dev (64-bit), which is default latest 'google-chrome-unstable' on my Linux Fedora-40 (x86_64) system, but on SOME videos, it doesn't (video plays).

I go to the Video Play page on YouTube, copy the "Embed Link" (<iframe> ... </iframe>) into a Web Page on my local filesystem
and load the HTML page . Most of the time the Audio Only Youtube extension works as expected, and does not download or play the
 video, only the audio --  for some videos, it doesn't work, and plays the whole video.

Why precisely is this ? Could a future version display some sort of informative text when an Icon is hovered upon or something to explain to users why, for this video, the Extension failed to work ? Any way of predicting easily which videos won't work ?