Anyone who primarily uses #YouTube for just listening to music (like I do) should consider trying out an app like @newpipe (NewPipe). I haven’t dealt with an ad or interstitial break since I switched, and the mobile app plays sound while my phone is locked without missing a beat. I don’t know if it’ll be around forever, but I do know I’m never going back to just “www dot youtube dot com” for online videos again.
Edit: Android DL link for those who want to try NewPipe: https://newpipe.net/#download
Can you link to the actual app? Play store search tries to hide it from me with confusing links and ads. Can’t check it out if idk what to look for.
@lurch Sure! I went here with my mobile browser and directly downloaded it: https://newpipe.net/#download
I’ve had my phone open to non-Play Store APKs for a long time, so I don’t know if your mileage will vary, but it was pretty painless for me.
Thanks, i tried it, but it’s just a frontend for youtube. I need a replacement for youtube (the site), because its shit
@lurch Yes, it’s a YouTube front-end. It suits my purposes because I can listen to my old playlists of game music, etc. (stuff not typically available on streaming music platforms) without having to plow through a thousand ads every hour, but it’s not a competing service to YouTube, per se.
If you want to completely get away from YouTube, I don’t have any personal experience yet, but I’ve heard nice things about the federated video tool, @peertube ! (NewPipe will also integrate with PeerTube.)
- Download and install F-Droid to your Android phone: https://f-droid.org/
- While on the website, select “Docs” at the top of the screen then select “Known Repositories”
- Copy the URL for NewPipe’s repo
- In F-Droid on your phone, go into Settings, select Repositories, select the plus button at the top right corner, and paste the NewPipe repo into the text field.