Preflight Checklist

• I use the latest version of YouTube Music (Application).
• I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
• I understand that th-ch/youtube-music has NO affiliation with Google or YouTube

YouTube Music (Application) Version

3.6.2

Checklists

• I use the portable version of the YouTube Music Application.
• I can reproduce this issue in the official version of (WEB) YTM.

What operating system are you using?

Ubuntu

Operating System Version

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

What CPU architecture are you using?

x64

Last Known Working YouTube Music (Application) version

No response

Reproduction steps

1. Stop the Youtube Music app
2. Delete ~/.config/YouTube Music
3. Start the app again
4. Play a song and observe it only reporting basic metadata

Expected Behavior

$ playerctl -l metadata lists a media player that clearly identifies itself as YouTube Music. The player reports e.g. the xesam:url field when checking its metadata with playerctl metadata to know what URL the song is being played from.

Actual Behavior

$ playerctl -l metadata reports a temporary name chromium.instance650197 which cannot be identified as YouTube Music. playerctl -p chromium.instance650197 metadata does not report any xesam:url field.

$ playerctl -l metadata
chromium.instance650197
$ playerctl -p chromium.instance650197 metadata 
chromium mpris:artUrl              file:///tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.KHpXUw
chromium mpris:length              391000000
chromium mpris:trackid             '/org/chromium/MediaPlayer2/TrackList/Track113F0C72D4C4DE24FC71139C54580A29'
chromium xesam:album               Legacy
chromium xesam:artist              Eagles
chromium xesam:title               Hotel California

Enabled plugins

1. The default plugins

Additional Information

Enabling the "Shortcuts (MPRIS)" plugin resolves this issue.

$ playerctl -l metadata
YoutubeMusic
$ playerctl -p YoutubeMusic metadata 
YoutubeMusic mpris:length              391000000
YoutubeMusic mpris:artUrl              https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s8QFRo91FYOkY2M1967AtulxiQpHXC7pEjWtsGzCQ4ZN25wnvhasHO0S4e_MWm04-HVfmBRvy8jmbq2-ZA=w544-h544-l90-rj
YoutubeMusic xesam:title               Hotel California
YoutubeMusic xesam:url                 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BciS5krYL80
YoutubeMusic xesam:artist              Eagles
YoutubeMusic mpris:trackid             '/org/node/mediaplayer/YoutubeMusic/Track/BciS5krYL80'
YoutubeMusic xesam:album               Legacy

This plugin should be enabled by default on Linux.

If this plugin is enabled by default it will allow this YouTube Music app to work with Music Presence out of the box: https://musicpresence.app / https://github.com/ungive/discord-music-presence

I don't really see any reason why this plugin shouldn't be enabled by default.