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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 acc
by 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 agoTry 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 agoSo can Brave browser
- paskozdilar 4y agoSo 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 agoYou cannot play YouTube on an alexa device either. Spotify has proper integration.
- solarkraft 4y agoYouTube, at least on the web version, also stops playing after half an hour or so in the background.
- rightbyte 4y agoYou 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 agoYes and 95% of users have no idea this feature exists.
- effingwewt 4y agoFirefox 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.