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> Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track? This is the biggest mystery to me too. Why not just use a 10-hour-long (or whatever) YouTube

> Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track? This is the biggest mystery to me too. Why not just use a 10-hour-long (or whatever) YouTube clip?

MaxGabriel 4y ago
Unless something has changed, you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off. YouTube is also a worse choice if you want offline access, such as on an airplane or when camping
- hardware2win 4y ago
  Try firefox+desktop mode
- paskozdilar 4y ago
  > you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off NewPipe (from fdroid repositories) can play audio from YouTube while the screen is off.
  - rajamaka 4y ago
    So can Brave browser
    - paskozdilar 4y ago
      So can any browser if you request desktop site, as mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630807 This functionality is in no way specific to Brave browser.
- perryizgr8 4y ago
  You cannot play YouTube on an alexa device either. Spotify has proper integration.
- solarkraft 4y ago
  YouTube, at least on the web version, also stops playing after half an hour or so in the background.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  You can do a "request desktop site" on mobile and it plays with the screen is off. uBlock in Firefox mobile for extra benefit.
  - jeromegv 4y ago
    Yes and 95% of users have no idea this feature exists.
  - effingwewt 4y ago
    Firefox mobile actually has an add-on specifically to play youtube and other videos with the screen off. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...
- shard 4y ago
  > you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off There are many sleep videos which have a dark screen for this reason, you can add "dark screen" to the search terms and see the choices. Although it's not quite the same as having the screen off, it's close enough in my experience.
serial_dev 4y ago
I'm not a white noise podcast listener, so it's just a guess: Discovering new white noises? Washing machine, hair dryer, forest, see, bar, wind, workplace noises? For work, I could see that I would like to experiment with different variations of white noise sounds, and see which one helps me the most to concentrate. I'll try out this podcast on Monday.
- mkl 4y ago
  > Discovering new white noises? Washing machine, hair dryer, forest, see, bar, wind, workplace noises? Those are noise, but not white noise. White noise has all frequencies at equal intensity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise This is like how white light has all frequencies of (visible) light. There are other "colours" of noise too, like pink noise and blue noise, that have different mixes of frequencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise
  - serial_dev 4y ago
    I know it is not technically white noise (it's just relaxing noise, really), but I appreciate your comment, noise colors are a fun subject. My sloppiness came from the fact that, as I have seen, in the YouTube noise video world, 95% of the videos have the "white" label in the title, even if they aren't technically white.
the_arun 4y ago
Why not just use an mp3 file? then you don’t need internet as well.
tzs 4y ago
I was going to point out that if 10 hours isn't enough, just play it back at 3/4 speed, 1/2 speed or 1/4 speed. White noise should still be white noise at different speeds. But it turns out that slowing down white noise on Google does change it noticeably. Speeding it up does not. Someone smarter than me could probably infer some things about how YouTube implements speed shifting from that.

> Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track? This is the biggest mystery to me too. Why not just use a 10-hour-long (or whatever) YouTube clip?

MaxGabriel 4y ago

Unless something has changed, you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off. YouTube is also a worse choice if you want offline access, such as on an airplane or when camping

hardware2win 4y ago
Try firefox+desktop mode
paskozdilar 4y ago
> you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off NewPipe (from fdroid repositories) can play audio from YouTube while the screen is off.
- rajamaka 4y ago
  So can Brave browser
  - paskozdilar 4y ago
    So can any browser if you request desktop site, as mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630807 This functionality is in no way specific to Brave browser.
perryizgr8 4y ago
You cannot play YouTube on an alexa device either. Spotify has proper integration.
solarkraft 4y ago
YouTube, at least on the web version, also stops playing after half an hour or so in the background.
rightbyte 4y ago
You can do a "request desktop site" on mobile and it plays with the screen is off. uBlock in Firefox mobile for extra benefit.
- jeromegv 4y ago
  Yes and 95% of users have no idea this feature exists.
- effingwewt 4y ago
  Firefox mobile actually has an add-on specifically to play youtube and other videos with the screen off. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...
shard 4y ago
> you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off There are many sleep videos which have a dark screen for this reason, you can add "dark screen" to the search terms and see the choices. Although it's not quite the same as having the screen off, it's close enough in my experience.

serial_dev 4y ago

I'm not a white noise podcast listener, so it's just a guess: Discovering new white noises? Washing machine, hair dryer, forest, see, bar, wind, workplace noises? For work, I could see that I would like to experiment with different variations of white noise sounds, and see which one helps me the most to concentrate. I'll try out this podcast on Monday.

mkl 4y ago
> Discovering new white noises? Washing machine, hair dryer, forest, see, bar, wind, workplace noises? Those are noise, but not white noise. White noise has all frequencies at equal intensity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise This is like how white light has all frequencies of (visible) light. There are other "colours" of noise too, like pink noise and blue noise, that have different mixes of frequencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise
- serial_dev 4y ago
  I know it is not technically white noise (it's just relaxing noise, really), but I appreciate your comment, noise colors are a fun subject. My sloppiness came from the fact that, as I have seen, in the YouTube noise video world, 95% of the videos have the "white" label in the title, even if they aren't technically white.

the_arun 4y ago

Why not just use an mp3 file? then you don’t need internet as well.

tzs 4y ago

I was going to point out that if 10 hours isn't enough, just play it back at 3/4 speed, 1/2 speed or 1/4 speed. White noise should still be white noise at different speeds. But it turns out that slowing down white noise on Google does change it noticeably. Speeding it up does not. Someone smarter than me could probably infer some things about how YouTube implements speed shifting from that.