[Bug]: YTM playing music video (audio/video) instead of the studio track

Author: blinkCodesCreated Nov 11, 2025Updated Sep 13, 2026
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Preflight Checklist

  • I use the latest version of Pear Desktop (Application).
  • I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
  • I understand that pear-devs/pear-desktop has NO affiliation with Google or YouTube

Pear Desktop (Application) Version

3.11.0.0

Checklists

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 11 25H2

What CPU architecture are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Pear Desktop (Application) version

No response

Reproduction steps

  1. Play any track from an album that has tracks having a music video.
  2. Player defaults to playing the music video.
  3. Using video toggle plugin, turns off the video, however the audio being played is just from the MV instead of the studio version.

Expected Behavior

Play studio version of a track instead of the music video.

Actual Behavior

Plays music video or just the audio form the MV if using video toggle plugin, instead of the studio recorded track.

Enabled plugins

  1. Ad blocker
  2. Album color theme
  3. Ambient Mode
  4. Compact Sidebar
  5. Discord Rich Presence
  6. Exponential Volume
  7. In-App Menu
  8. Navigation
  9. Performance Improvement
  10. Precise Volume
  11. Scrobbler
  12. Synced Lyrics
  13. Taskbar Media Control
  14. Video Toggle (enabled)

Additional Information

No response