A slight change to how the music userbar works

[Synth Salazzle]

You know the one, that lets you have a song on your profile, the search result can be less than desirable for more obscure things, because of the limited selection we get to choose from for our search results, something I noticed on many platforms that allow music embedding like that lets you use part of the url

example full video would be the full url like (you need an account to see links) tube.com/watch?v=lHykN78QJs8 (I put a space so it wouldn't auto embed into my post.)

But instead of a search we'd put this part of the url into what is now a search bar. lHykN78QJs8 or v=lHykN78QJs8 works in some cases.

Would this be a giant hassle? or something that would be considered easier? I'm code illiterate so I wouldn't actually know the reality of this sort of change?

[Bat]

Would this be a giant hassle? or something that would be considered easier?

It isn't as though this kind of thing would be a hassle, it's that the current solution retrieves results from YouTube Music because the intent behind the userbar is that you use it to play music. If we opened it up to any YouTube url, then there's a chance that someone would input something that isn't curated by YouTube's content system as a music, which would be a misuse of the feature here on clraik. If the result you're searching for isn't coming up on YouTube Music, then it's not music, and that's the logic our current search code adheres to. I could expand the results shown to include tracks and suggestions further down the list, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

[Synth Salazzle]

It isn't as though this kind of thing would be a hassle, it's that the current solution retrieves results from YouTube Music because the intent behind the userbar is that you use it to play music. If we opened it up to any YouTube url, then there's a chance that someone would input something that isn't curated by YouTube's content system as a music, which would be a misuse of the feature here on clraik.

That's fair, actually. And explains a LOT on why some things just don't show up like they would in a normal youtube search.