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lorentz
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It occurred to me that I'm making actual money now and I can pay for my shit, so I tried Youtube Premium, but their background play is poorly implemented and defaults to a floating window that I need to cancel in a finnicky, android-vendor-specific way. How do you consistently make something that much less usable than an unpaid open-source developer who also has to reverse-engineer your API and circumvent your anti-user-choice obfuscation measures? NewPipe would be a success if it could just play the videos in full screen with no controls, and yet it has a better background play story than the actual provider. Fuck centralised software

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  • 1
    174d
    https://gnutella3.sourceforge.net/
  • 3
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    Don't award Google for enshittification. They'll just get worse.
  • 3
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    @electrineer I had hoped that paying customers get to enjoy a level of flexibility and configurability that's commeasurate with the price. We don't, so I'm done.
  • 3
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    I'm not sure why I had such hopes from a company that prides itself in having no human customer support, but it was a cheap lesson.
  • 0
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    You can actually turn off the small window thing when u exit a video. I don't know if it'd be actually helpful to you.
  • 1
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    @SidTheITGuy Oh neat, didn't notice the extra settings category, just kept looking in playback. Thanks! It's still jankier than newpipe but not significantly so.
  • 1
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    I think newpipe prefers downloading the video stream in the background and throwing away the picture instead of switching streams, which wastes a lot of bandwidth but ensures uninterrupted playback (besides alleviating developer burden)
  • 2
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    @lorentz Why would you background play? You have now access to youtube music too!

    And when it comes to youtube music: IF it plays, it plays well. So many time that I have to close the app or switch internet connection to make it refresh the playlists before I want to go somewhere. It has more content I like than spotify, but spotify is very decent and never fails.

    Google does have human support. I contacted with when 50,- was stuck in the pipeline.
  • 2
    174d
    The youtube app has become increasingly more buggy. I have premium for music, I'd never pay for the broken ass app
  • 0
    173d
    You can use ReVanced if you want the official client but better and more customizable.
  • 1
    173d
    Had free trial for a month, miss not seeing ads at all (in all device types)
  • 2
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    @Pogromist Youtube Premium is once of the best things I did. I found out how much advertisements annoyed / influenced my mood when they were gone. I have a chrome cast, youtube vanced and stuff is not an option there. But i'm playing Youtube here on the background 24/7. It's easily worth the money.
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