Comment on Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music

treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cbarrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YouTube Music allows the app to be minimized, AFAIK.

  It’s standard YouTube (non-premiun) that requires the app to be in the foreground.

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  • macarthur_park@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can use the YouTube music app with a standard (free) YouTube account, at least on iOS. But the audio only keeps playing in the background if you pay for YouTube music. And I think you can’t download music to play offline.

    For what it’s worth, YouTube Premium ($14/ month) includes YouTube music and removes ads for YouTube.

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yt-dlp, Ublock Origin and Newpipe all cost $0 tho

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      • macarthur_park@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Having YouTube premium means I can use it on any platform. I can use YouTube music on my phone with CarPlay and listen while driving, use the built-in YouTube app that hotel TVs have when I travel for work, watch things on my work computer, on my phone, or using my PS5.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its a but hacky, but if you disable the youtube app, install firefox and then its “video background player” addon, you can listen to youtube videos/music minimized without paying.

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    • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Share to - - > Newpipe Sponsorblock also works.

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      • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is there sponsorblock on the phone?

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    • visor841@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You also you use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox

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    • Sicklad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or install YouTube revanced, and get rid if ads too.

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  • Shihali@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Seems to vary depending on whether I’m attempting to listen to music on my device (“attempting to” is the right word as it takes 15 seconds to load each individual song as it goes through a playlist) or listen to a YouTube video. It can go further into the background if it’s music on my device, no further back than a big window drawn over the screen if it’s a podcastable video, and must be in the foreground for a video IIRC.

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• sanpo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does Google Podcasts really not support that? Because that’s like… the basics.

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Podcasts does, Youtube doesn’t unless you pay for premium. After the migration, if that policy doesn’t change, google’s platform of the week will be useless for podcasts.

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    • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      YouTube Music is a different app altogether, on mobile devices at least.

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    • dept@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      YouTube music allows background playback

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  • Matt@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google Podcasts does, but background play is a premium feature on YouTube Music.

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  • treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Podcasts does but not YouTube unless you pay for a subscription

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  • narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It used to. They paywalled it with YouTube premium.

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• revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  InnerTune. No ads, no account. Minimize/do what you want.

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  • treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks! I’m installing it now.

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