YouTube Music recommendations and audio streams come from normal YouTube

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The auto-play queue appears to be pulling recommendations from the standard YouTube algorithm, not the YouTube Music recommendation algorithm. As a result, it sometimes includes random or unrelated YouTube videos that are not music at all, instead of staying within a similar mood or genre. This is especially noticeable with all genres of music, where the queue may suddenly switch to unrelated genres or non-music content.

This is because YouTube Music tracks are being fetched and treated as regular YouTube videos rather than as music entities, which likely prevents access to YouTube Music’s mood- and genre-aware recommendation logic.

Moreover, the audio quality of music streams remains similar to standard YouTube / NewPipe audio, and does not match the richer sound quality available in the free tier of the official YouTube Music app or website. The YouTube Music app (even without a subscription) clearly delivers better audio quality compared to the YouTube app—and this difference is noticeable when compared to NewPipe as well.

The issue names no source file, test, or entry point; begin by reproducing the recommendation queue and audio-quality differences described for YouTube Music tracks. Done would require the queue to use music-appropriate recommendations and the extracted streams to provide the reported higher quality, with tests or reproduction steps added to verify both behaviors.