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Problem

Play a song from Ctrl+F search, let it finish, and playback silently stops.

The search flow calls playTrackImmediate(), which appends a single track. When it drains, nextTrack()playlist.Next() returns ok=false (last track, repeat off) → Stop() + clearPlaybackTrack(). There is nothing left to play, so the player goes quiet.

Solution

YouTube-style autoplay continuation, opt-in via autoplay_radio (default false).

When the queue is exhausted and the finished track is a YouTube / YouTube Music video, cliamp fetches the auto-generated Mix (watch?v=<id>&list=RD<id>) — the same "related tracks" radio YouTube's own autoplay uses — drops entries already in the queue (keyed by video ID, so www./music./youtu.be variants match), appends the top 5, and keeps playing. Continuation is recursive: when those run out, the newly finished track seeds the next Mix.

No new yt-dlp plumbing was needed. resolve already routes list=RD... URLs to resolveYTDL with --flat-playlist, and ResolveYTDLBatch is already exported for the incremental loader.

Details

  • Early prefetch. While the last queue track plays, once ≤45 s remain, preloadNext()'s no-next branch starts the Mix fetch in the background so the tracks land before the drain and the existing gapless preloader can arm the transition.
  • Failure handling. A fetch error, or 0 new tracks after dedupe, warns once, stops playback as before, and latches the failed seed in autoplayFailedSeed so the tick loop cannot spin up a yt-dlp loop for the same track.
  • Generation guarding. requests.autoplay invalidates in-flight fetches; beginPlaybackTrack bumps it and clears the latch whenever a track starts, so a manual action always wins.
  • Unaffected paths. Repeat one/all (Next() never fails), live streams (they reconnect instead of advancing), non-YouTube sources (SoundCloud, local files, …) all behave exactly as before. Autoplay is off unless enabled.

Usage

# ~/.config/cliamp/config.toml
autoplay_radio = false   # set true, or press `c` in the player

c toggles it at runtime in main mode and persists the choice, like z (shuffle) and r (repeat). The key was free in main mode — the registry only bound c inside the queue overlay ("Clear").

Status line: Autoplay: finding related tracks…Autoplay: added N related tracks.

Changes

Area Change
resolve/radio.go New YouTubeVideoID() and RadioMixURL() helpers
config/config.go AutoplayRadio field + autoplay_radio parse case
ui/model/autoplay.go State, fetch command, eligibility, dedupe/append, prefetch, toggle
ui/model/playback.go nextTrack() exhaustion branch; autoplay reset in beginPlaybackTrack
ui/model/update.go autoplayTracksMsg handler
ui/model/preload.go Early-prefetch hook
ui/model/keys.go, command_registry.go c toggle
main.go Config wiring
docs, config.toml.example, site/index.html User-facing documentation

Testing

TDD throughout — 13 new tests in resolve/radio_test.go and ui/model/autoplay_test.go covering URL parsing, eligibility gating, single-flight fetching, dedupe and the 5-track cap, the exhaustion branch, message handling (append/advance, stale generation, empty result), prefetch windowing, and the c toggle including key dispatch and config persistence.

CI parity, run locally:

gofmt -l .          # clean
go vet ./...        # clean
staticcheck ./...   # clean
govulncheck ./...   # 0 vulnerabilities affecting this code
go test -race ./... # all pass

Manually verified end to end against live yt-dlp: the Mix for a search-played track resolved 20 entries, the seed was correctly deduped, and playback continued onto the next related track. Also smoke-tested in a real TUI session — autoplay_radio = true loaded at launch and c rewrote the key to false in the config file.

Existing end-of-playlist and preload tests are untouched and still pass: they construct models with autoplayRadio unset, so the stop-at-end behavior is unchanged when the feature is off.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added optional autoplay for YouTube and YouTube Music Mix recommendations when the queue is exhausted.
    • Autoplay adds up to five non-duplicate tracks and continues loading recommendations as needed.
    • Added the c key to toggle autoplay during playback; the setting is saved for future sessions.
    • Autoplay applies only to eligible YouTube tracks and is disabled when repeat mode is enabled.
    • Selecting a new track manually removes pending autoplay recommendations.
  • Documentation

    • Added configuration, keybinding, and YouTube autoplay documentation.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

YouTube Mix autoplay is configurable and can be toggled with c. The model resolves related tracks asynchronously, appends up to five deduplicated ephemeral tracks, handles queue exhaustion, and removes autoplay tracks when playback changes manually.

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YouTube radio autoplay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and runtime controls
config/config.go, config/config_test.go, main.go, ui/model/init.go, ui/model/command_registry.go, ui/model/keys.go, ui/model/autoplay.go, ui/model/autoplay_test.go, config.toml.example, docs/configuration.md, docs/keybindings.md, docs/yt-dlp.md
The new autoplay_radio setting defaults to false. Startup and the c key apply the setting. Runtime changes persist.
YouTube Mix URL resolution
resolve/radio.go, resolve/radio_test.go
Supported YouTube and YouTube Music URLs produce Radio Mix URLs. Invalid, unsupported, and non-video URLs are rejected.
Autoplay playback flow
ui/model/autoplay.go, ui/model/model.go, ui/model/playback.go, ui/model/preload.go, ui/model/update.go, ui/model/state.go, playlist/playlist.go, external/ytmusic/cache_ephemeral_test.go
The model fetches related tracks near queue exhaustion, ignores stale results, deduplicates and appends up to five ephemeral tracks, and handles failed or changed seeds. Manual playback removes non-bookmarked autoplay tracks.
Autoplay behavior validation
ui/model/autoplay_test.go
Tests cover eligibility, live-stream rejection, prefetch timing, asynchronous responses, deduplication, queue advancement, persistence, five-track limits, and manual-track cleanup.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PlaybackModel
  participant RadioMixResolver
  participant YouTubeMix
  PlaybackModel->>RadioMixResolver: Build Mix URL from active YouTube track
  RadioMixResolver->>YouTubeMix: Fetch related tracks
  YouTubeMix-->>PlaybackModel: Return Mix entries
  PlaybackModel->>PlaybackModel: Filter duplicates and append up to five tracks
  PlaybackModel->>PlaybackModel: Advance playback or schedule the next prefetch
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 832ab

The PR adds opt-in asynchronous YouTube continuation and is mergeable with owner awareness: an off-then-on toggle may allow an older request to add tracks, and a resolver failure with partial results may briefly alter the queue before playback stops.

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Inline comments:
In `@main.go`:
- Around line 484-486: Update the startup flow around cfg.AutoplayRadio and
runDaemon so autoplay_radio is honored in daemon mode by wiring the setting into
the daemon’s next-track continuation behavior, or explicitly document and
enforce that the setting is TUI-only. Preserve the existing TUI behavior through
m.SetAutoplayRadio(true).

In `@resolve/radio_test.go`:
- Around line 12-17: Update YouTubeVideoID to validate youtu.be short-link paths
as video IDs before returning them, rejecting non-video paths such as
`@somechannel`. Add invalid short-link coverage to the relevant test table and
ensure RadioMixURL does not report success or create a Mix URL for rejected
paths.

In `@resolve/radio.go`:
- Line 24: Update RadioMixURL to validate extracted YouTube IDs from both
youtu.be paths and watch?v values, rejecting extra path segments and IDs
containing separators by returning an empty ID and false; add near-miss tests
covering these cases.

In `@ui/model/autoplay.go`:
- Around line 52-53: Update the rejection condition in nextTrack to also exclude
tracks for which m.currentPlaybackIsLive(track) is true, preventing live YouTube
tracks from starting autoplay mixes while preserving existing rejection
behavior. Add a test covering a live track reached through next-track handling.

In `@ui/model/update.go`:
- Around line 638-642: Update the autoplay result handler around
appendAutoplayTracks to discard results when autoplay is disabled or msg.seed no
longer matches an active playback track; perform these checks before appending
tracks. When either check fails, clear autoplayLoading and autoplayAdvance, then
return without mutating the queue or advancing playback, while preserving the
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- Line 170: Update the autoplay cleanup logic around autoplayDedupeKey and
autoplayAdded to track and remove only queue entries created by autoplay, using
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Thanks — all five findings reviewed against the current code and addressed in d316d2c.

1. Cleanup removed user-owned equivalent tracks (Major, ui/model/autoplay.go) — confirmed and fixed. Keying cleanup off video IDs meant a user-added copy of an autoplay video was deleted too. Replaced the key set with an explicit entry-origin marker: playlist.Track.Ephemeral, set on the tracks autoplay appends and on the "play now" track, runtime-only and never persisted (same contract as the existing DirSourced flag; savePlaylist rebuilds documents field by field). Cleanup now removes only entries carrying that marker, and skips bookmarked ones. Regression tests added for both paths: TestDiscardKeepsUserOwnedEquivalentTrack (autoplay entry + user-added music.youtube.com copy of the same ID) and TestPlayTrackImmediateKeepsUserOwnedEquivalentTrack (play-now entry + user-added youtu.be copy). Both fail on the previous commit.

2. youtu.be short-link validation (resolve/radio.go) — confirmed and fixed. youtu.be/@somechannel and youtu.be/<id>/extra were returned as IDs, and watch?v= values were taken verbatim. Added isYouTubeVideoID (base64url charset only, so any separator is rejected) applied to both extraction paths, so RadioMixURL no longer reports success or builds a Mix URL for them. Near-miss cases added to the table test plus a rejection loop in TestRadioMixURL.

3. Live tracks must not seed a Mix (ui/model/autoplay.go) — fixed. autoplayEligibleSeed now also rejects m.currentPlaybackIsLive(track). preloadNext already returned early for live tracks, but nextTrack did not, so a draining live YouTube stream could have started a fetch. Covered by TestAutoplayEligibleSeedRejectsLiveStream (which also asserts nextTrack starts no fetch) and TestAutoplayEligibleSeedRejectsRuntimeDetectedLiveStream for the IsLiveStream() reporter path.

4. Stale/unwanted results in the handler (ui/model/update.go) — fixed. Before appending, the handler now drops the result when autoplay was turned off mid-flight or when the active playback track is no longer msg.seed, clearing autoplayLoading/autoplayAdvance and returning without touching the queue. The generation check is unchanged and still runs first. Tests: TestAutoplayTracksMsgDroppedWhenDisabledMidFlight, TestAutoplayTracksMsgDroppedWhenSeedNoLongerActive.

5. Daemon mode (main.go) — documented as player-only rather than implemented, which was the second option offered. daemon.nextTrack() is synchronous with no command loop, so continuation there needs its own async design; that is deliberately out of scope for this PR. config.toml.example, docs/configuration.md and docs/yt-dlp.md now state that --daemon ignores autoplay_radio.

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In `@playlist/playlist.go`:
- Line 60: Update the Ephemeral field on playlist.Track with a JSON exclusion
marker so encoding/json omits it from ytCache.snapshot and loadYTCache round
trips. Preserve Ephemeral at runtime while ensuring cached tracks cannot restore
it as true; add a cache round-trip test covering this behavior.

In `@resolve/radio_test.go`:
- Around line 50-52: Update the RadioMixURL failure-case assertion to verify
both parts of its failure contract: ok must be false and got must be an empty
string. Preserve the existing bad-input cases and report failures through the
current test style.

In `@resolve/radio.go`:
- Around line 39-40: Update the URL handling around YouTubeVideoID and the
adjacent ID extraction to require u.Scheme to be http or https before accepting
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All three findings from the latest review confirmed and fixed in 832ab29.

1. Ephemeral leaked into the YouTube Music cache (playlist/playlist.go) — real bug, reproduced before fixing. cachedTrackList.Items is []playlist.Track marshalled straight into ytmusic_cache.json, and Track carries no field tags, so the flag was written and restored:

snapshot serialized the Ephemeral field: {"scope":…,"items":[{…,"DirSourced":false,"Ephemeral":true,…}]}
cached track restored with Ephemeral = true

A restored track would then have been silently removed the next time the user played something. Fixed with json:"-" on the field. Added TestYTCacheDropsEphemeralFlag in external/ytmusic, a full round trip through snapshotsaveSnapshotloadYTCachetracksFresh, asserting the serialized bytes never contain the field name, the restored flag is false, and other fields survive.

2. Failure-case assertions in resolve/radio_test.go — fixed. The rejection loop now asserts both halves of the contract, got == "" and ok == false, in one check.

3. Non-HTTP(S) schemes (resolve/radio.go) — confirmed and fixed. url.Parse happily yields Host: youtu.be for ftp://youtu.be/<id>, and scheme-relative //www.youtube.com/watch?v=… parsed too, so both produced a Mix URL. YouTubeVideoID now requires http or https before any extraction. Regression coverage added for ftp:// on both host shapes, the scheme-relative form, and a positive http:// case so plain HTTP keeps working.

Verification on 832ab29: gofmt -l . clean, go vet ./..., staticcheck ./..., go test -race ./... all pass. (Note for anyone reproducing: mise.toml pins go = "latest", which now resolves to 1.27.1; a staticcheck binary built with 1.26 reports stdlib compile noise against that toolchain. Ran staticcheck under a matching toolchain for a clean result.)

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@gjermundgaraba could you please review this.

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this might take some time and we'll probably want to think through the design around this a bit. i really like the idea of having a something like this, but i wonder if there is a more general way to do this that would also allow us to use other providers

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Would love for this to come to fruition! The one thing I miss when trying out cliamp

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we'll probably want to think through the design around this a bit.

Got it. I will work on it.

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