[Feature Request]: Show comments on songs/videos

[change-agent]

Preflight Checklist

• I use the latest version of YouTube Music (Application).
• I have searched the issue tracker for a feature request that matches the one I want to file, without success.

Problem Description

It would be great if we could view and interact with comments on songs/videos, like we can do on Android and iOS.

Proposed Solution

Comments tab here:

Alternatives Considered

N/A

Additional Information

No response

[JellyBrick]

Unfortunately, Desktop version of YTM doesn't provide data of the comments.

[change-agent]

@JellyBrick if you remove the "music" subdomain from a URL, you can see the comments. They are just YouTube comments on the YouTube video equivalent of the track – e.g. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmX9xW1oHY
vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmX9xW1oHY:

On that note, it would be great if you could surface the number of "likes" on a song too, since that's also data sourced from the YouTube backend.

[change-agent]

@th-ch Keen to hear your thoughts on the above

[ArjixWasTaken]

@JellyBrick if you remove the "music" subdomain from a URL, you can see the comments. They are just YouTube comments on the YouTube video equivalent of the track – e.g. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmX9xW1oHY vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmX9xW1oHY:
On that note, it would be great if you could surface the number of "likes" on a song too, since that's also data sourced from the YouTube backend.

the music. prefix is irrelevant to implementing this feature
we'd have to use YouTube's API via youtubei.js

which I must admit is quite easy to do, but it has the risk of Google flagging your IP as suspicious

[nowhereman87]

Agree. Being able to read the comments while listening to the music would be great, I think it's one of the things that often makes me opt for YT instead of Spotify or Tidal