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What I’d really like is a YouTube TiVo. There are about 100 channels that I watch religiously, but, release infrequently. I never want to miss a video from the

What I’d really like is a YouTube TiVo. There are about 100 channels that I watch religiously, but, release infrequently. I never want to miss a video from these channels. I also don’t want to open YouTube and sift through hundreds of releases from channels that release four times/day just to find the 1-2 videos that I actually want to watch (and will inevitably miss.) Just give me a priority feed of the stuff I actually want/need to watch. If I can download everything and watch it over DLNA, even better, Making sure we don’t miss the things we love isn’t YouTube’s M.O. Keeping the feedbag strapped to our faces while we watch someone stretch a 3 minute video into a 18-22 minute one, is.

Group_B 2y ago
I believe youtube still uses RSS. Could try using that
- aquova 2y ago
  I was just going to suggest this. I don't use Youtube logged in anymore or have any subscriptions, I instead subscribe to any I want to follow via RSS feeds. Any Youtube channel has its own native RSS feed, no third party service required. You could create different lists in your RSS client of choice for your different priorities.
  - defrost 2y ago
    It's pretty easy - I have the FeedBro chrome extension (there are many RSS clients, that is just one) and a typical youtube RSS entry for a channel lookes like https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5vU7bPBNzyC2nnwmNQ https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5v... that's the channel ID for Cutting Edge Engineering in QLD, Australia (mechanical engineering for life size mining | civil tonka toys)
- kiliankoe 2y ago
  This is exactly what I do as well. Instead of subscribing on YouTube, I just subscribe to the RSS feeds of channels I'm interested in and then use my feedreader to go through them channel by channel.
ajot 2y ago
NewPipe works great for this usecase. Just get rid of the "Default Kiosk" column as content of main page, leave the "What's New" and watch only videos from channels that you subscribe to (on NewPipe, it's not integrated in any way with a Google Account).
- sudoaptinstall 2y ago
  NewPipe is my gateway drug for getting people into sideloading and fdroid. It's such a great app. If anyone is reading this and doesn't know about NewPipe, it's a google free youtube front end. It's well worth installing. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
- miiiiiike 2y ago
  Thanks, I'll check it out. Unfortunately, Apple TV support is a requirement as well.
lolinder 2y ago
This feels like it's covered by YouTube subscriptions, no? Subscribe to those 100 channels, bookmark your subscriptions page, and presto! You now have a priority feed of the stuff you want to watch and nothing else. Maybe you just don't want to create an account, which is fine (NewPipe is a great fit), but it's a bit weird to see you say that "making sure we don’t miss the things we love isn’t YouTube’s M.O." when there's an entire page dedicated to a chronologically-sorted list of videos from channels you pick.
- miiiiiike 2y ago
  I have hundreds of subs. With no way to create sub tiers the channels putting out multiple releases a day quickly overwhelm the ones with fewer.
  - lolinder 2y ago
    So, you have hundreds of subs but only care about a hundred of them, and that's YouTube's fault? Why do you subscribe to channels whose content you don't watch?
    - rbits 2y ago
      He wants to watch them, but doesn't care if he misses any since they put out so much. Compared to the other ones that don't put out much and he never wants to miss.
    - samplatt 2y ago
      I don't have this particular problem, but maybe they want YT to support these creators, even if they don't have time to watch it all.
      - Elfir3 2y ago
        > maybe they want YT to support these creators or maybe those creators brings more money to YT...
    - 2y ago
prmoustache 2y ago
You could subscribe separetly to these channels on freetube (desktop) or newpipe(mobile).
botanical 2y ago
There's the fraidycat extension that I use to do exactly that: https://fraidyc.at/ https://fraidyc.at/
i_read_news 2y ago
I use Invidious for this purpose. Has a priority feed only on subscriptions which is great. I would say it’s not great for discoverability, but if that’s not a use case I’d look at it.
- miiiiiike 2y ago
  Will check it out. Thanks.

Group_B 2y ago

I believe youtube still uses RSS. Could try using that

aquova 2y ago
I was just going to suggest this. I don't use Youtube logged in anymore or have any subscriptions, I instead subscribe to any I want to follow via RSS feeds. Any Youtube channel has its own native RSS feed, no third party service required. You could create different lists in your RSS client of choice for your different priorities.
- defrost 2y ago
  It's pretty easy - I have the FeedBro chrome extension (there are many RSS clients, that is just one) and a typical youtube RSS entry for a channel lookes like https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5vU7bPBNzyC2nnwmNQ https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2wdo5v... that's the channel ID for Cutting Edge Engineering in QLD, Australia (mechanical engineering for life size mining | civil tonka toys)
kiliankoe 2y ago
This is exactly what I do as well. Instead of subscribing on YouTube, I just subscribe to the RSS feeds of channels I'm interested in and then use my feedreader to go through them channel by channel.

ajot 2y ago

NewPipe works great for this usecase. Just get rid of the "Default Kiosk" column as content of main page, leave the "What's New" and watch only videos from channels that you subscribe to (on NewPipe, it's not integrated in any way with a Google Account).

sudoaptinstall 2y ago
NewPipe is my gateway drug for getting people into sideloading and fdroid. It's such a great app. If anyone is reading this and doesn't know about NewPipe, it's a google free youtube front end. It's well worth installing. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
miiiiiike 2y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out. Unfortunately, Apple TV support is a requirement as well.

lolinder 2y ago

This feels like it's covered by YouTube subscriptions, no? Subscribe to those 100 channels, bookmark your subscriptions page, and presto! You now have a priority feed of the stuff you want to watch and nothing else. Maybe you just don't want to create an account, which is fine (NewPipe is a great fit), but it's a bit weird to see you say that "making sure we don’t miss the things we love isn’t YouTube’s M.O." when there's an entire page dedicated to a chronologically-sorted list of videos from channels you pick.

miiiiiike 2y ago
I have hundreds of subs. With no way to create sub tiers the channels putting out multiple releases a day quickly overwhelm the ones with fewer.
- lolinder 2y ago
  So, you have hundreds of subs but only care about a hundred of them, and that's YouTube's fault? Why do you subscribe to channels whose content you don't watch?
  - rbits 2y ago
    He wants to watch them, but doesn't care if he misses any since they put out so much. Compared to the other ones that don't put out much and he never wants to miss.
  - samplatt 2y ago
    I don't have this particular problem, but maybe they want YT to support these creators, even if they don't have time to watch it all.
    - Elfir3 2y ago
      > maybe they want YT to support these creators or maybe those creators brings more money to YT...
  - 2y ago

prmoustache 2y ago

You could subscribe separetly to these channels on freetube (desktop) or newpipe(mobile).

botanical 2y ago

There's the fraidycat extension that I use to do exactly that: https://fraidyc.at/ https://fraidyc.at/

i_read_news 2y ago

I use Invidious for this purpose. Has a priority feed only on subscriptions which is great. I would say it’s not great for discoverability, but if that’s not a use case I’d look at it.

miiiiiike 2y ago
Will check it out. Thanks.