[Habitual_Sinner]

The youtube music front end, looks pretty much the same as the google music one.... looks more in common with older google music than you-tube.

I assume, it's not as simple as tweeking the older google-music-exp plugin?

So if anyone has been using the Kodi Youtube addon, it seems like that has been effectively shut down by Google.... I believe that is going to make it much harder for a Youtube Music addon to be built. Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem very likely now.

My understanding is that it hasn't been effectively "shut down". Google now requires to use your own personal API in order to access the service via an unsupported or unofficial method. You can set-up a personal API at https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3...ng-started

As far as an official YouTube Music API goes, I haven't seen anything official yet but I have been using an unofficial API that effectively emulates web requests as if they were coming from a browser with your POST request headers. I've been playing around with an app written in Python that works really well on a RPi. This is the link to the unofficial API: https://ytmusicapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#.

I don't have a lot of experience with developing Kodi add-ons but I'm happy to try and help out getting this working with YT Music as I have used this add-on for a number of years and would love to get some if not all of it's functionality back.