Initial commit: YouTube Music playlist creator for Core Fest 2025

- Add playlist creation script with browser authentication - Support for 17 festival bands with top 3 songs each - Includes setup documentation and requirements - Fixes OAuth detection issue by adding dummy authorization header
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+# Browser Authentication Setup
+
+This guide will help you extract the necessary authentication cookies from your browser to use with `ytmusicapi`.
+
+## Step 1: Open YouTube Music
+
+1. Open your browser (Chrome or Firefox)
+2. Navigate to [https://music.youtube.com](https://music.youtube.com)
+3. **Make sure you are logged in** to your Google account
+
+## Step 2: Open Developer Tools
+
+- **Chrome/Edge:** Press `F12` or `Ctrl+Shift+I` (Windows/Linux) / `Cmd+Option+I` (Mac)
+- **Firefox:** Press `F12` or `Ctrl+Shift+I` (Windows/Linux) / `Cmd+Option+I` (Mac)
+
+## Step 3: Go to Network Tab
+
+1. Click on the **"Network"** tab in Developer Tools
+2. If you don't see it, look for it in the tabs at the top of the developer tools panel
+
+## Step 4: Capture Network Requests
+
+1. **Refresh the page** (press `F5` or `Ctrl+R` / `Cmd+R`)
+2. Wait for the page to load completely
+3. Look for requests to `music.youtube.com` in the network list
+
+## Step 5: Find the Right Request
+
+1. Click on any request that goes to `music.youtube.com`
+2. Look for requests like:
+   - `browse`
+   - `getBrowse`
+   - `search`
+   - Or any request that shows `music.youtube.com` in the URL
+
+## Step 6: Copy Headers
+
+1. With a request selected, click on the **"Headers"** tab
+2. Scroll down to **"Request Headers"** section
+3. You need to copy the following headers:
+
+### Required Headers:
+
+- **Cookie** - A long string starting with something like `VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=...`
+- **User-Agent** - Something like `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)...`
+
+### Optional but Recommended:
+
+- **X-Goog-AuthUser** - Usually `0` or `1`
+- **Accept** - Usually `*/*` or `application/json`
+- **Accept-Language** - Your language preference
+- **Content-Type** - Usually `application/json`
+- **x-origin** - Usually `https://music.youtube.com`
+
+## Step 7: Create browser.json
+
+Create a file named `browser.json` in this directory with the following structure:
+
+```json
+{
+    "User-Agent": "PASTE_YOUR_USER_AGENT_HERE",
+    "Accept": "*/*",
+    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
+    "Content-Type": "application/json",
+    "X-Goog-AuthUser": "0",
+    "x-origin": "https://music.youtube.com",
+    "Cookie": "PASTE_YOUR_COOKIE_HERE"
+}
+```
+
+Replace:
+- `PASTE_YOUR_USER_AGENT_HERE` with the User-Agent header value you copied
+- `PASTE_YOUR_COOKIE_HERE` with the Cookie header value you copied
+
+**Important:** The Cookie value is very long and contains sensitive information. Keep this file private and never commit it to version control.
+
+## Step 8: Verify
+
+Your `browser.json` should look something like this (with your actual values):
+
+```json
+{
+    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+    "Accept": "*/*",
+    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
+    "Content-Type": "application/json",
+    "X-Goog-AuthUser": "0",
+    "x-origin": "https://music.youtube.com",
+    "Cookie": "VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=abc123...; YSC=xyz789...; [many more cookie values]"
+}
+```
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+- **Can't find the Cookie header?** Make sure you're looking at a request to `music.youtube.com`, not `youtube.com`
+- **Authentication fails?** Your cookies may have expired. Repeat the process to get fresh cookies
+- **Still having issues?** Try using a different request from the network tab, or refresh the page and try again
+
+## Security Note
+
+The `browser.json` file contains your authentication cookies. Anyone with access to this file can access your YouTube Music account. Keep it secure and never share it publicly.
+