question: YT music (spoof client patch) - Why action bar components are unusable only when manual playback is initiated?

[Karthik-Subbu]

Application

YouTube Music

Question description

With spoof client approach for YT music (versions > 7.16.53), it is understood that action bar layout is modified by IOS client spoofing which makes action bar components unusable (for e.g likes and dislikes counts and user actions thumbs up and down are not available). However it is observed that after the end of a track when next track auto playback is initiated, the action bar components are restored.

I am not sure why server response has to be different for manual and auto playbacks? Is there a way to make it look like auto playback call when actually a manual playback is initiated? or alternatively spoof using different clients for action bar and video?

I am resorting to spoof client because I have issues with dns and spoof streaming data is not usable for me.

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[inotia00]

The Spoof client patch modifies the ClientContext after the player has loaded (similar to spoofing the User-Agent)

The ClientContext is used not only when the player is loaded, but also on almost every request, such as when fetching content from a feed or fetching search results

If it is not spoofed properly, the action bar may be visible (which means that playback issues may occur)

[Karthik-Subbu]

The Spoof client patch modifies the ClientContext after the player has loaded (similar to spoofing the User-Agent)

The ClientContext is used not only when the player is loaded, but also on almost every request, such as when fetching content from a feed or fetching search results

If it is not spoofed properly, the action bar may be visible (which means that playback issues may occur)

Is the client context used when next track is played automatically?

Please see this thread in ReVanced.

ReVanced/revanced-patches#4140 (comment)