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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

YouTube Music allows the app to be minimized, AFAIK.

It's standard YouTube (non-premiun) that requires the app to be in the foreground.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use the YouTube music app with a standard (free) YouTube account, at least on iOS. But the audio only keeps playing in the background if you pay for YouTube music. And I think you can’t download music to play offline.

For what it’s worth, YouTube Premium ($14/ month) includes YouTube music and removes ads for YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yt-dlp, Ublock Origin and Newpipe all cost $0 tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Having YouTube premium means I can use it on any platform. I can use YouTube music on my phone with CarPlay and listen while driving, use the built-in YouTube app that hotel TVs have when I travel for work, watch things on my work computer, on my phone, or using my PS5.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Its a but hacky, but if you disable the youtube app, install firefox and then its "video background player" addon, you can listen to youtube videos/music minimized without paying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Share to - - > Newpipe Sponsorblock also works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there sponsorblock on the phone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, on Android:

  • Firefox/Fennec/fork of Firefox + Sponsorblock

  • Newpipe Sponsorblock

  • Youtube Revanced

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder why uBlock Origin blocks revanced:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's not the right webpage. The official page is revanced.app or you can directly go to the github.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see it's not the official website, interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are multiple fake website. The team can't do much about them. Revanced is a manager and people have to patch the APK on their phones.

Any apk people can found isn't official.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for this, now I have sponsorblock on the phone and on the TV also, very cool!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problem, the youtube experience without adblock and sponsorblock is bad. If you have AndroidTV, SmartTube is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's what I installed, it's really good! I just wosh something simmilar would exist for PeerTube too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can also use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or install YouTube revanced, and get rid if ads too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seems to vary depending on whether I'm attempting to listen to music on my device ("attempting to" is the right word as it takes 15 seconds to load each individual song as it goes through a playlist) or listen to a YouTube video. It can go further into the background if it's music on my device, no further back than a big window drawn over the screen if it's a podcastable video, and must be in the foreground for a video IIRC.