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Hail NewPipe! “Background” playback is just awesome and only downloads the audio stream. Use it all the time for listening to lectures and presentations as podc

by mikae1 3y ago

Hail NewPipe! “Background” playback is just awesome and only downloads the audio stream. Use it all the time for listening to lectures and presentations as podcasts.

j1elo 3y ago
I tried to do the same with music but for some reason the next enqueued song has the tendency of going straight up to 20 min, 60 min, 3 hour, 10 hour long videos. Not sure why. But this was reliably repeatable. Starting from any given song, I'd hit Next and before 5 to 10 videos I'd already be in the 10hrs long spectrum. Another thing that would also happen too frequently is that the next suggested video gets locked on always different videos of the same song. Once and again. Without any way to limit video duration and some filter to skip videos with a too similar name to the ones already played, it was useless to me. We could argue that that's just the next video suggested by YouTube's server. But YouTube ReVanced, on the other hand, doesn't exhibit any of those issues and starting from any song, will enqueue a variety of mostly non-repeated, single-song videos. Much better.
- opan 3y ago
  Are you not putting specific videos into a playlist and then playing the playlist? You make it sound like some sort of magic is taking place adding videos you didn't personally vet.
  - Novosell 3y ago
    It has autoplay, just like normal YouTube.
    - j1elo 3y ago
      Yeah, I meant the autoplay, aka. "Auto-queue next stream": https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/ https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/
    - opan 3y ago
      I don't believe it's on by default. I've never run into it before (thankfully).
unixhero 3y ago
Youtube revanced does this too Android rules
- apapapa 3y ago
  On Firefox mobile, on the official YouTube.com website, if you want to be able to play in the background, all you have to do is request the desktop version of the site... Newpipe is a better way though
  - rjzzleep 3y ago
    You can also use video background playback fix on both firefox and orion on iOS. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...
- rajamaka 3y ago
  Brave browser on mobile too
GuB-42 3y ago
YouTube premium does that too, it did even when it was called YouTube red. As well as hacked versions of the YouTube app that always enable premium features. What is nice with NewPipe is that it is independent from the YouTube app.

by mikae1 3y ago

Hail NewPipe! “Background” playback is just awesome and only downloads the audio stream. Use it all the time for listening to lectures and presentations as podcasts.

j1elo 3y ago

I tried to do the same with music but for some reason the next enqueued song has the tendency of going straight up to 20 min, 60 min, 3 hour, 10 hour long videos. Not sure why. But this was reliably repeatable. Starting from any given song, I'd hit Next and before 5 to 10 videos I'd already be in the 10hrs long spectrum. Another thing that would also happen too frequently is that the next suggested video gets locked on always different videos of the same song. Once and again. Without any way to limit video duration and some filter to skip videos with a too similar name to the ones already played, it was useless to me. We could argue that that's just the next video suggested by YouTube's server. But YouTube ReVanced, on the other hand, doesn't exhibit any of those issues and starting from any song, will enqueue a variety of mostly non-repeated, single-song videos. Much better.

opan 3y ago
Are you not putting specific videos into a playlist and then playing the playlist? You make it sound like some sort of magic is taking place adding videos you didn't personally vet.
- Novosell 3y ago
  It has autoplay, just like normal YouTube.
  - j1elo 3y ago
    Yeah, I meant the autoplay, aka. "Auto-queue next stream": https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/ https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/player-enable-autoplay/
  - opan 3y ago
    I don't believe it's on by default. I've never run into it before (thankfully).

unixhero 3y ago

Youtube revanced does this too Android rules

apapapa 3y ago
On Firefox mobile, on the official YouTube.com website, if you want to be able to play in the background, all you have to do is request the desktop version of the site... Newpipe is a better way though
- rjzzleep 3y ago
  You can also use video background playback fix on both firefox and orion on iOS. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...
rajamaka 3y ago
Brave browser on mobile too

GuB-42 3y ago

YouTube premium does that too, it did even when it was called YouTube red. As well as hacked versions of the YouTube app that always enable premium features. What is nice with NewPipe is that it is independent from the YouTube app.