Cheers! This is a follow-up to a Play Store comment I made earlier. Here is the comment itself:
Excellent Kodi RC with many features. Able the one thing that would make it complete is being able to see which YouTube videos I queued up on my playlist. (Currently, it only shows the word “play” on a playlist. As queueing videos through Kodi itself does not have this problem, Yatse is probably not printing the titles upon queueing the videos.)
(To which Tolriq responded that it doesn’t have that functionality. That’s—I didn’t mean with a printing machine! )
I think it might be best if I provide a screenshot of an example.
This is what it looks like when I queue YouTube videos through Kodi itself. You can see that the video titles are displayed properly.
This is what it looks like when I queue them through Yatse. These videos will play correctly; however, there is no way to know which ones correspond to which without actually clicking on them first.
I will, as soon as I find it again. (and my phone finishes updating.) I’ll also include the link you posted here, as I didn’t have this before posting this thread.
Ho ok so you queue directly from Yatse not by sharing from youtube.
Then there’s nothing Yatse can do to bypass this Kodi limitation. Yatse can’t make Kodi resolve the plugin added to playlist and Yatse can’t push metadata either. (Yes I know but from Kodi GUI it works …, but this is not how JSON works)
The workaround is only applied when sharing from youtube application and selecting play / queue on media center.
Hm, that’s a shame. Not even having Yatse pull the page title before queueing works? I know Potplayer does this.
But then, I’m hardly in a position to suggest changes, as I’m completely inexperienced in programming. All I can do, really, is point at other programs to maybe provide insight into how it could be done.
The problem is not about having the data it’s about having an API to be able to push the data to Kodi.
GUI can do that, Yatse (or any other app) from JSON can’t, Yatse have a workaround when you share from Youtube app that fits your needs (by using a Kodi plugin that can do more as intermediary), but from browsing the addon it’s not possible to apply it without being ugly hacks.