An MCP server and media playback service that lets an AI assistant play music on a real speaker. Ask your assistant to "play some lo-fi", "queue the next three tracks from that album", or "add this…
yt-player is an MCP project maintained in the karunstha/yt-player repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “An MCP server and media playback service that lets an AI assistant play music on a real speaker. Ask your assistant to "play some lo-fi"…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using uvx. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
The example declares MEDIA_SERVICE_URL. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-13.
Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Area | Tools |
| Status | health, get_playback_state, get_current_track |
| Search | search_media |
| Playback | play_media, pause_playback, resume_playback, stop_playback, seek_playback, next_track, previous_track, set_volume, set_shuffle, set_repeat |
| History | get_playback_history (paginated with next_before) |
| Queue | get_queue, append_queue_track, insert_queue_track_next, queue_playlist, remove_queue_item, clear_queue, replace_queue_with_playlist |
| Playlists | list_playlists, get_playlist, create_playlist, rename_playlist, delete_playlist, add_track_to_playlist, add_tracks_to_playlist, add_current_track_to_playlist… |
| search_type | Searches |
| music_videos | YouTube Music videos |
| podcasts | YouTube Music podcast episodes |
| videos | All of YouTube |
{
"mcpServers": {
"yt-player": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"--from",
"git+https://github.com/karunstha/yt-player",
"yt-player-mcp"
],
"env": {
"MEDIA_SERVICE_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:5454"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MEDIA_SERVICE_URL | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
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