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Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. But I use "youtube-dl -x" to extract audio in my home server. I listen m

Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. But I use "youtube-dl -x" to extract audio in my home server. I listen many "podcasts" in various languages this way. Joe Rogan is my favourite, best of those should be in Netflix. When properly translated they would have worldwide audience, like the one with Elon Musk.

torvald 8y ago
> Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. Oh but you can. I have just tested on android, but if you open YouTube in Chrome and ask for the «Desktop site» in the menu, you can play, turn of the screen (the music stops), you turn the screen on again (without unlocking), and get a little toolbar you can press play to resume playing.
- timonoko 8y ago
  But does it stop streamin video too? I was living in Norway for two months this summer. 3 hours of Joe Roagan would have been 5 euros in roaming costs. Much cheaper is to start "Youtube -x" in my Helsinki server, and repack the audio into low quality 2 mega MP3-file.
  - marxama 8y ago
    Don't know if you know this, but given your example: The MP3s of the Joe Rogan Podcast can be downloaded from his website. Just an FYI.
lyk 8y ago
Check out newpipe, it's in f-droid. It supports audio-only with the screen off, and downloading audio from videos.
runaway 8y ago
That's a premium feature. I find it well worth the money, plus no ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium https://www.youtube.com/premium
- pacuna 8y ago
  Does it allow offline audio-only too ?
pritambaral 8y ago
On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off. On my laptop, I use youtube-dl when I want to keep a personal copy, and mpv/vlc (which automatically using youtube-dl internally) when I just want to play something once. ---- 1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro... 2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
- qubax 8y ago
  > On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off. The problem is even if the screen is off, youtube still sends the video data to your phone. It would be nice if youtube gave us an option of "audio only" streaming so only the audio is sent. Currently the only work around is downloading the audio using youtube-dl.
m-localhost 8y ago
Use https://huffduffer.com/ https://huffduffer.com/ - it extracts the audio from Youtube Videos and adds it to a feed you can subscribe to. The bookmarklet lets you collect all the audio in the wild. Best service ever.

torvald 8y ago

> Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. Oh but you can. I have just tested on android, but if you open YouTube in Chrome and ask for the «Desktop site» in the menu, you can play, turn of the screen (the music stops), you turn the screen on again (without unlocking), and get a little toolbar you can press play to resume playing.

timonoko 8y ago
But does it stop streamin video too? I was living in Norway for two months this summer. 3 hours of Joe Roagan would have been 5 euros in roaming costs. Much cheaper is to start "Youtube -x" in my Helsinki server, and repack the audio into low quality 2 mega MP3-file.
- marxama 8y ago
  Don't know if you know this, but given your example: The MP3s of the Joe Rogan Podcast can be downloaded from his website. Just an FYI.

lyk 8y ago

Check out newpipe, it's in f-droid. It supports audio-only with the screen off, and downloading audio from videos.

runaway 8y ago

That's a premium feature. I find it well worth the money, plus no ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium https://www.youtube.com/premium

pacuna 8y ago
Does it allow offline audio-only too ?

pritambaral 8y ago

On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off. On my laptop, I use youtube-dl when I want to keep a personal copy, and mpv/vlc (which automatically using youtube-dl internally) when I just want to play something once. ---- 1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro... 2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

qubax 8y ago
> On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off. The problem is even if the screen is off, youtube still sends the video data to your phone. It would be nice if youtube gave us an option of "audio only" streaming so only the audio is sent. Currently the only work around is downloading the audio using youtube-dl.

m-localhost 8y ago

Use https://huffduffer.com/ https://huffduffer.com/ - it extracts the audio from Youtube Videos and adds it to a feed you can subscribe to. The bookmarklet lets you collect all the audio in the wild. Best service ever.