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💡Exclude music/speech categories from skip-silence
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Description
Problem
Skip-silence (#921) should not activate on music videos or content where silence is intentional. Applying silence-skipping to music ruins the listening experience.
Solution
Add category-aware exclusion logic for skip-silence:
- Auto-detect video category via YouTube metadata (music, entertainment, education, etc.)
- Skip-silence is disabled by default for music and entertainment categories
- User override: per-category toggle in settings
- Optional: allow blocklist/allowlist by channel or video URL pattern
Scope
Playback > Speed and skipping
Parent
Split from #921 (skip silence core). This is the category-exclusion component.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading parent issue #921 and the existing skip-silence requirements under Playback > Speed and skipping. Clarify how YouTube category metadata and user settings are expected to interact, especially for music and entertainment. Done means category exclusions work by default and the requested per-category override behavior is defined and verified.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100