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I'm also a premium subscriber, and have struggled with the same issues on the iPad app. I try to keep some shows downloaded for my toddler, and the download fea
by beala 1y ago
I'm also a premium subscriber, and have struggled with the same issues on the iPad app. I try to keep some shows downloaded for my toddler, and the download feature never seems to work on the first try.
I finally got so fed up, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 off ebay for $50 and flashed it with LineageOS. I can now load whatever media I want onto the 1 TB sdcard I've installed in it. The 5 year old hardware plays videos just fine with the VLC app. And, as a bonus, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. I was planning on using yt-dlp to load up the sdcard, but now I don't even need to do that.
- moralestapia 1y agoTangential. The TIDAL app is absolute trash, it has this same issue all the time; not just that, but also, if a download fails it just hangs there and does not download the rest of the album/playlist. Also, why would you want to download things in the first place? To watch them offline, right? Well, guess what happens when you open the app w/o an internet connection ... it asks you to login, so you cannot even access your music. 900k/year TOC genius work there. The only reason why I haven't canceled is because I'm too lazy to reset my password in order to login and cancel, lol. Might do it soon, though.
- galaxy_gas 1y agoWhen I try it for a month, the worst part.. your entire download queue fails forever unless you manually remove hundreds of items one by one There is no way to remove the stuck item if it's been pull from streaming library or you in country that -- such traveling etc -- does not have r ights to it. You simply cannot open the track to undownload it
- lawgimenez 1y agoAlso tried Tidal once with their trial, tried playing some music videos and it was just straight up blurry throughout. Not once did the music video played HD.
- xienze 1y agoOne thing I like about Tidal though: you can download everything, DRM-free, using tidal-ng.
- OccamsMirror 1y agoBut with TIDAL I cut them some slack because they're not a multibillion dollar behemoth. I do wish they'd improve their CarPlay search results though. I hate asking for a well known song and getting some obscure EDM remix.
- moralestapia 1y agoOh, but they are. It was founded by Jay-Z and then bought by the Twitter dopey guy.
- aeyes 1y agoI use yt-dlp inside of a-shell on iOS, then play files using VLC.
- comprev 1y agoNice trick I'll have to try this. Thanks!
- stirlo 1y agoDoesn’t solve VLCs suckiness on iOS. No PiP support when it’s been in iOS for years now…
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- amatecha 1y agoYeah because everyone who has a user experience feedback about a piece of software is magically a skilled programmer? The smug "PRs accepted" doesn't help anyone. Expressing hope for a feature at least shows potential implementers that the feature is wanted.
- idiotsecant 1y agoExpressing hope for a feature? Is that the tone you pulled from that post?
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- ethbr1 1y agoideas/assholes/everyone has one, etc
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- bigyabai 1y agoNewPipe is incredible. If Google ever stops signing apps like that, I'll be switching to a Linux phone.
- cranberryturkey 1y agoas soon as they have a map app that works with car play i'm switching to linux phone.
- bigyabai 1y agoGNOME Maps is good enough for me. I don't know what Carplay is and at this point I'd rather not ask.
- m4tthumphrey 1y agoFramework for using your cars infotainment system as your screen/input device. Android has something similar called Android Auto.
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- jraph 1y agoDon't car play and android auto rely on proprietary libraries? I doubt it will come to Linux phones unless they take off or something like microg reimplements the proprietary parts.
- Gabrys1 1y agoThere are boxes you plug to your CarPlay enabled car that run Android. Run Google Maps on that and you're golden. No need to carry/connect your phone to the car anymore
- non-nil 1y agoI don't think you mean a wired-to-wireless dongle, which is all my searches turn up. Can you give me an example of such a device?
- heavyset_go 1y agoThis is exactly why Google is clamping down on running your own choice of apps on Android, as well as pushing things like remote attestation on both phones and browsers. It's time to milk the entire userbase for every cent they can get out of them by any means necessary. The future is bleak.
- ivolimmen 1y agoThey will probably start requiring SecureBoot as well. So at some point running Linux will also pose a problem. It's not impossible but the extra steps are a pain in the butt.
- mindslight 1y ago"Secure" boot is mostly a red herring, as there are lots of hardware options these days. Remote attestation takes away your ability to run libre Linux on any device if you want to interact with Google (or other surveillance company) network services. It completely repudiates the idea of the mutual-consent-based protocol.
- heavyset_go 1y agoSecure Boot, or similar bootloader root of trust schemes, is the reason millions of phones and tablets will never run anything other than the manufacturer-provided OS and not what the user wants to run.
- mindslight 1y agoYes, of course. I agree 100% that the designed-to-be-ewaste market is terrible. If I had my way, any manufacturer-privileging signing scheme would be illegal. So would the anticompetitive bundling of software with hardware devices, for that matter. My point was that the threat of prohibiting libre Linux isn't from all manufacturers deciding to lock out installing Linux on their devices. But rather from remote attestation making it so that Google (et al) are able to force you to run a locked down operating system as a technically-enforced condition of interacting with their servers.
- Gabrys1 1y agoUse Tubular, which is basically NewPipe with Sponsorblock. (And has really nice Android Auto support which I learned after a while)
- nyarlathotep_ 1y ago>, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. NewPipe is so good and so useful. It can even play 4K and watch livestreams now.
- martin82 1y agoPremium subscriber here. Download feature on iOS always works flawlessly whenever I need to hop on a long haul flight (several times a year).