IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.
I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in.
I think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though.
Been a long time user of Newpipe. It do occasionally break but not that huge of a deal breaker for me.
Only complaint is I can't select a livestream quality/resolution. I want to catch up to some news live and put those on background but it would use too much bandwidth since it's locked to a higher resolution. In such cases, I would just open them on Firefox, set to desktop mode, and listen from there. Afaik, Invidious doesn't support livestreams.
The issue is I like the algorithmic feed, as well as having all my subscriptions there. I believe that's not available in NewPipe without manually adding all subscription channels.
I've been using and loving NewPipe since 2015 or 2016--whenever it first showed up on Fdroid. Really like the ability to play songs from bandcamp too. Although there's one bug in the bandcamp workflow that I wish was fixed: If you search for an artist then tap the artist page in the results this will take you to the albums screen. Click to the album, then if you either use the back arrow or swipe back you're returned to the search results rather than the list of albums on the artist page.
I'd recommend stayfree. It works great on mobile android with feature blocking (shorts and reels) and we'll as time based and scheduled blocks. You can remove the blocks by retyping a long prompt.
Editorialized title! Portrait aspect ratio (or "vertical video", as it's described here - at least I assume that's what the term refers to - like, as if the landscape aspect ratio has no Y axis!) is not obviously mentioned anywhere.
I don't get why the poster thinks NewPipe doesn't support vertical videos (let's not be anal, we know what they mean) if the video is "vertical" then making it fullscreen will fill the phone's screen vertically.
Well, perhaps you know what they mean! Me? I can only read the words and then guess based on the words I read. If it's not clear from my post what guesses I have made based on the words I have read, and which assumptions I have made while making those guesses, then I apologise. I will try to make it easier for the reader next time.
It sounds like you found no reference to portrait aspect ratio videos in the article either.
IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.
I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in.
https://invidious.io/
https://materialio.us/
Absolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;)
I think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though.
I use it to mainly download videos, and that seems to break every few weeks. I just updated and it's fixed. Small price to pay.
I think there was a phase of repeated breakages a while back, but things seem to have stabilised.
Fixes are released quickly ime too.
There is a fork called PipePipe[0] too, that also implements SponsorBlock
0: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
Been a long time user of Newpipe. It do occasionally break but not that huge of a deal breaker for me.
Only complaint is I can't select a livestream quality/resolution. I want to catch up to some news live and put those on background but it would use too much bandwidth since it's locked to a higher resolution. In such cases, I would just open them on Firefox, set to desktop mode, and listen from there. Afaik, Invidious doesn't support livestreams.
I don't use YouTube much nowadays. It's better for your mental health. I mostly use a fork called Tubular that has sponsored block
If only it worked. We need a good alternative to YouTube that still let's creators feed themselves...
Though I don't think it will ever happen...
Brilliant? Nova? It won't happen if you don't support it.
What's Brilliant?
Newpipe is great, I tend to spend too much time on youtube. This at least limits it. It does break from time to time.
The issue is I like the algorithmic feed, as well as having all my subscriptions there. I believe that's not available in NewPipe without manually adding all subscription channels.
NewPipe can parse a Google data export dump and import all of your subs.
For the desktop, I recommend https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions
I've been using and loving NewPipe since 2015 or 2016--whenever it first showed up on Fdroid. Really like the ability to play songs from bandcamp too. Although there's one bug in the bandcamp workflow that I wish was fixed: If you search for an artist then tap the artist page in the results this will take you to the albums screen. Click to the album, then if you either use the back arrow or swipe back you're returned to the search results rather than the list of albums on the artist page.
There's also Freetube, which is a fantastic desktop client.
https://freetubeapp.io
For some reason I always preferred having tabs on desktop, so I can having stuff paused to be watched later.
is this just a way to browse youtube without ads or tracking, or what?
I'm looking to just hide Shorts, but I want my recommendations. Not sure what's out there for that.
I'd recommend stayfree. It works great on mobile android with feature blocking (shorts and reels) and we'll as time based and scheduled blocks. You can remove the blocks by retyping a long prompt.
Thanks, I've bookmarked it for later.
I see no mention of not playing vertical videos on their website.
It absolutely works with YouTube shorts. It just doesn't put them in your subscription feed.
What's the difference of NewPipe to ReVanced?
Revanced is a mod for the official Android app, where NewPipe is an original app.
In practice this means that Revanced will be much more feature complete than NewPipe.
It also means revanced is legally dicey whereas newpipe is essentially a legal frontend/scraper of YouTube.
Revanced is only distributed as patches, probably to avoid being susceptible to the claims against the original Vanced.
Worth noting that ReVanced has a lot more patches than just YouTube.
See also: Tubular
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.polymorphicshade.tubular...
Context: Tubular is a fork of NewPipe that adds SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike integration.
I love newpipe I've watched hundreds of hours of videos on my shield tv with it.
Editorialized title! Portrait aspect ratio (or "vertical video", as it's described here - at least I assume that's what the term refers to - like, as if the landscape aspect ratio has no Y axis!) is not obviously mentioned anywhere.
I don't get why the poster thinks NewPipe doesn't support vertical videos (let's not be anal, we know what they mean) if the video is "vertical" then making it fullscreen will fill the phone's screen vertically.
Well, perhaps you know what they mean! Me? I can only read the words and then guess based on the words I read. If it's not clear from my post what guesses I have made based on the words I have read, and which assumptions I have made while making those guesses, then I apologise. I will try to make it easier for the reader next time.
It sounds like you found no reference to portrait aspect ratio videos in the article either.