• American_Jesus@lemm.ee
    313·
    2 months ago

    Any of these (YouTube Music) players are better choices than using an extension on a browser.
    Also better features like lyrics, better interface…

    PS: extensions can access all of your browser data, you need to trust the extensions hoping that they aren’t sending your data to some 3rd party

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’ve used most of these and quite frankly they are not good. Each of them quit working randomly or wouldn’t play certain tracks and wouldn’t get an update for days or weeks, at which point I’d move on to the next and get exactly the same experience. They’re FOSS apps, and I’m fairly certain Google is to blame for breaking them, but even so if they are unusable for days or weeks at a time I cannot recommend them.

      If you just want a YouTube app with no ads and background playback I would recommend PipePipe. It’s what I’ve settled on after trying everything else, and it’s fantastic. Google breaks it all the time, but updates very quickly bring it back online.

      If you want something FOSS that’s closer to the YT Music experience, I don’t know what to tell you.

      • American_Jesus@lemm.ee
        13·
        2 months ago

        RiMusic is update regularly, no third party player is perfect, even PipiPipe or Newpipe can break suddenly, Google/YouTube don’t like third party apps using their services and are always implementing ways to break apps

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
    211·
    2 months ago

    I’m good with ReVanced, thanks.

    Playing YouTube on a mobile browser is finicky at best.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      You can create a file in ~/bin named termux-url-opener. It’ll be executed when you “Share” a URL to Termux. In the script you can go wild. Setup a menu with options:

      1. Download video to a folder.
      2. Download a video to a hidden folder.
      3. Download just the the audio then convert it to MP3 with your desired quality.

      Stuff like that.

      Less technical people can simply install Seal:

      https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/

      Honestly, Seal is just easier, and even supports custom command templates, so it does literally everything you could want.

      But Termux can do more than just yt-dlp.

  • xploit@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    And for everyone else who doesn’t want extra garbage on their phone it’s: switch to ‘Desktop Site’ > continue doing whatever else. This applies to both Firefox and Firefox Focus

    No need promote/install more unnecessary stuff on your phones 🤦

    Edit- that being said, I still include no script/ublock in FF and use FFF for yt videos when I don’t want to clog my Tubular history (newpipe fork with sponsor block) with useless stuff that I’ll never want to rewatch.

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    2 months ago

    I also use it to listen to podcasts/ lore videos without having my screen on when I’m falling asleep. It’s also nice for driving. If you make a playlist and have an ad blocker, it WILL continue on to the next song.

    I’m actually thinking of forking Firefox and making a lite version mostly geared towards playing YouTube content without ads and without restrictions.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    For those on iOS: there’s an app called “Vinegar” that replaces the YouTube player with a vanilla HTML5 player that supports background/PiP play without YT Premium.

    Alternatively on iPhones with “dynamic island”, minimize Safari while a video is playing, quickly tap-and-hold the dynamic island area and resume playback. After that you can lock your device and audio will continue playing.

  • Sustolic@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 months ago

    This functionality is also built into the brave browser on mobile as well (at least on iOS)

    Brave settings -> Media -> Enable Background Audio