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Magic-tape is an image supporting fuzzy finder command line interface YouTube client.
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape
Image support is achieved either with kitty terminal, ueberzug or chafa.
With magic-tape, through the main menu, the user can:
Browse videos from subscriptions.
Browse through trending video feed.
make a video search, using keywords or phrases.
Watch a previously watched video (watch history).
Browse videos from a subcsribed channel.
Watch a liked video.
Repeat the previous selection.
Repeat a previous search (search history).
Watch/download video/audio content, in various formats.
Through the miscellaneous menu the user can
Set up Preferences (configuration).
Like / Unlike a video.
Synchronize the above actions with their YouTube account.
Import subscriptions from YouTube.
Subscribe to/ Unsubscribe from a channel.
Clear their watch/search history, liked videos, thumbnail cache.
I do not know how this script is interacting with zsh. Have you tried to run it with bash?
$ echo $0 bash
Strange… It still displays the same zsh error and the preferences are not displayed. I even tried to execute the program using
bash magic-tape.sh
while in bashI tried on a machine where only bash is installed, and the search window is blank, yt-dlp gives an error that flashes and I can’t read quickly, no preferences appear, again it flashes some text but I cannot read it. Also, the location for the folder is not relative, it has to be in
~/git/magic-tape
otherwise it will give you multiple errors.Have you followed the instructions correctly to install the script?
Obviously something is not ok, and I find it surprising that the script is not working in all these distros.
You have zsh errors with the Debian as well, although it is not installed?
Is yt-dlp up to date? If you use this command on its own, do you get any errors?
I am trying to troubleshoot, but in the dark.
Yeah, I followed the instructions, created necessary folders.
yt-dlp
is not the latest version, but the latest from Debian bookworm repositories (2023.03.04).yt-dlp
works perfectly to download and convert videos withffmpeg
.When I try to browse trending
yt-dlp
says:yt-dlp: error: playlist end "0" must be must be greater than or equal to playlist start "1"
I don’t have
zsh
errors on Debian where onlybash
is installed, after searching for a video I got a blank screen with the only option:Select video: search videos 1 to 0: > 1 Abort Selection
On Debian, what preference values have you entered (P option on misc menu)?
That P menu doesn’t open on all systems that I’ve tried
You can open the P option by either double-clicking on it with the mouse, or entering capital P with the keyboard. You can get to select the P option through the misc menu.
Do you get any error messages when doing so?
Have you installed all the dependencies of the script (rofi in particular)?
I did not have
rofi
installed on my headless machine, from the description I understand it is a GUI application. After installing it I still could not get the Preferences menu to appear. Nothing happens when I press P, or more specifically there is a quick flash of something and it comes back to the m submenuIt sems to me that there were a few ommisions made during the installation of this script from your part.
If I were you, I would remove the whole git/magic-tape folder, and re-install the script, this following the detailed instructions from the README.
There are specific commands that take care of the dependencies, and of the directory structure.
Do that, and the chances are that you will have no problems.