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title: "Replacing music player backend with yt-dlp"
tags: []
author: claude
count: 2
exporter: 3.1.0
date: 2026-07-16T17-20-34+0000
url: https://claude.ai/chat/8bb5e420-7ad2-4048-be3f-95894713aff6
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# Replacing music player backend with yt-dlp

## Table of Contents

- [1: lets just gut the seek function and focus on what works. we also need…](#chat-1)
- [2: alright awesome, lets remove the start from current position also, i w…](#chat-2)

## chat-1

> lets just gut the seek function and focus on what works. we also need to address the robot falling over if i try to walk from standstill, but only the first time i do it. If i jitter the walk forward and back buttons for about 3 seconds to get over the initial walk issues, it can start walking without falling over. how do we fix this

Both very solvable. Let's do the walk fix first since it's the more important one — confirmed via NAOqi docs: `ALMotionProxy::moveInit()` is the standard fix for exactly this. It's a one-time blocking call that initializes the walk engine and settles the robot into the right pose _before_ the first real move command, which is exactly what your button-jittering was accidentally doing by brute force. It's missing from the script entirely.

Now let's gut `seek()` entirely per your request — but keep the position tracking it shares with `pause()`, since that's still needed for resume-from-position to work:

Right, orphaned body left over. Let's clean that up:

Now remove the comma/period key bindings that called `seek()`:

Now compile-check and confirm nothing else references `seek`:

Clean. Let's ship it:

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## chat-2

> alright awesome, lets remove the start from current position also, i want to get the lines of code down, what can be done without compromising on the stability and functionality to simplify our code

Now let's do the full pass. First, the concrete simplification you asked for — remove position tracking, revert pause/resume to restart-from-beginning:

Now `pause()` becomes a plain stop/restart toggle — no position math, no `playFileFromPosition`:

Now let's cut the repetitive `try/except Exception as e: print(...)` boilerplate scattered through `NaoTeleop` — same safety, less code, via one small helper:

Now let's add the `_safe` helper and apply it across these repeated sites:

Now the `moveInit` startup call:

Now the shutdown block — this is where it pays off most:

Let's check the movement block and the `T` key's `stopMove()` call too:

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