| ▲ | beala 3 days ago |
| I'm also a premium subscriber, and have struggled with the same issues on the iPad app. I try to keep some shows downloaded for my toddler, and the download feature never seems to work on the first try. I finally got so fed up, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 off ebay for $50 and flashed it with LineageOS. I can now load whatever media I want onto the 1 TB sdcard I've installed in it. The 5 year old hardware plays videos just fine with the VLC app. And, as a bonus, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. I was planning on using yt-dlp to load up the sdcard, but now I don't even need to do that. |
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| ▲ | heavyset_go 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is exactly why Google is clamping down on running your own choice of apps on Android, as well as pushing things like remote attestation on both phones and browsers. It's time to milk the entire userbase for every cent they can get out of them by any means necessary. The future is bleak. |
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| ▲ | DaiPlusPlus 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > This is exactly why Google is clamping down on running your own choice of apps on Android, as well as pushing things like remote attestation on both phones and browsers. Yes, Google is doing this; but I don't believe Google is doing it to squeeze an inconsequentially small boost in YT Premium subscriptions from former-account-sharers - I believe they're doing it because they want to demonstrate that YouTube is a "secure" platform for large, Hollywood-like, production studios to feel comfortable publishing first-runs of new TV content directly to YouTube - and those production companies are famously paranoid, luddite, and comically ignorant of cryptography fundamentals (i.e. they believe DRM can simultaneously allow legal subscriber Alice but deny evil pirate Bob from watching protected content when Alice and Bob are in-reality the same person (it's you, me, us!). ..and if not Hollywood studios, then certainly the major sports leagues. [The NFL's lawyers seem like real fun at parties](https://publicknowledge.org/the-nfl-wants-you-to-think-these...). | | |
| ▲ | heavyset_go 2 days ago | parent [-] | | All they have to do is uptick their DRM scheme a la Netflix and Amazon and YouTube would be indistinguishable from either platform from the eyes of rightsholders, and studios have no problem releasing to either platform. |
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| ▲ | ivolimmen 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | They will probably start requiring SecureBoot as well. So at some point running Linux will also pose a problem. It's not impossible but the extra steps are a pain in the butt. | | |
| ▲ | mindslight 2 days ago | parent [-] | | "Secure" boot is mostly a red herring, as there are lots of hardware options these days. Remote attestation takes away your ability to run libre Linux on any device if you want to interact with Google (or other surveillance company) network services. It completely repudiates the idea of the mutual-consent-based protocol. | | |
| ▲ | heavyset_go 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Secure Boot, or similar bootloader root of trust schemes, is the reason millions of phones and tablets will never run anything other than the manufacturer-provided OS and not what the user wants to run. | | |
| ▲ | mindslight 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Yes, of course. I agree 100% that the designed-to-be-ewaste market is terrible. If I had my way, any manufacturer-privileging signing scheme would be illegal. So would the anticompetitive bundling of software with hardware devices, for that matter. My point was that the threat of prohibiting libre Linux isn't from all manufacturers deciding to lock out installing Linux on their devices. But rather from remote attestation making it so that Google (et al) are able to force you to run a locked down operating system as a technically-enforced condition of interacting with their servers. |
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| ▲ | aeyes 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I use yt-dlp inside of a-shell on iOS, then play files using VLC. |
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| ▲ | fyrabanks 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | i use this for things i repost on IG with commentary. i would rather not have a huge folder of downloads of random stuff i'm not even sure i want to revisit. (and i'm bad about clearing out space on my phone.) | |
| ▲ | stirlo 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Doesn’t solve VLCs suckiness on iOS. No PiP support when it’s been in iOS for years now… | | |
| ▲ | averageRoyalty 3 days ago | parent [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | amatecha 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah because everyone who has a user experience feedback about a piece of software is magically a skilled programmer? The smug "PRs accepted" doesn't help anyone. Expressing hope for a feature at least shows potential implementers that the feature is wanted. | | |
| ▲ | idiotsecant 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Expressing hope for a feature? Is that the tone you pulled from that post? | | | |
| ▲ | ethbr1 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | ideas/assholes/everyone has one, etc | | |
| ▲ | Dylan16807 2 days ago | parent [-] | | There's a certain rudeness to imposing your own ideas, but that does not apply here. It's not their idea. It's a standard feature of video apps that's missing. | | |
| ▲ | ethbr1 a day ago | parent [-] | | The observation isn't about imposing ones ideas, but rather the relative surfeit of ideas vs the dearth of time/skill/energy to realize them. |
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| ▲ | comprev 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Nice trick I'll have to try this. Thanks! | |
| ▲ | busymom0 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What shell app do you use? |
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| ▲ | bigyabai 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| NewPipe is incredible. If Google ever stops signing apps like that, I'll be switching to a Linux phone. |
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| ▲ | chasil 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I use another app from F-Droid called Skytube for occasional downloads. I like it. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/free.rm.skytube.oss/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/free.rm.skytube.legacy.oss/ | |
| ▲ | extraduder_ire 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What do you mean by signing? Application signing on android is done by the developer, with their own key. Or by fdroid, in the case of apps built by fdroid in the default repository. | | |
| ▲ | heavyset_go 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Things have changed. Google is doing what Apple does and implementing Gatekeeper-like signature checks to ensure only apps by Google-approved developers can run on Android. Microsoft does something similar with Windows Defender: you need to buy a developer certificate that can be revoked at any time if you want to distribute your app and have users be able to run it. We're at a point where we need permission from trillion dollar companies to run the apps we want on the hardware we own. | | |
| ▲ | 71bw 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | >Microsoft does something similar with Windows Defender: you need to buy a developer certificate that can be revoked at any time if you want to distribute your app and have users be able to run it. Clarifying: you CAN run an unsigned app just fine on Windows. A lot of freeware/"indie" (for lack of a better term for small software) programs run just fine, the only thing that happens is the user recieves a warning they have to press "Yes" on (which 95% of people do, because That's The Windows UX[patent pending]). | | | |
| ▲ | extraduder_ire 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | In that case they wouldn't be stopping anything, since they haven't started signing anything yet. I also haven't seen any specifics on how that system is supposed to work, but have seen a lot of speculation and (perhaps not unwarranted) fearmongering. |
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| ▲ | cranberryturkey 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | as soon as they have a map app that works with car play i'm switching to linux phone. | | |
| ▲ | Gabrys1 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | There are boxes you plug to your CarPlay enabled car that run Android. Run Google Maps on that and you're golden. No need to carry/connect your phone to the car anymore | | |
| ▲ | non-nil 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I don't think you mean a wired-to-wireless dongle, which is all my searches turn up. Can you give me an example of such a device? | | |
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| ▲ | jraph 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Don't car play and android auto rely on proprietary libraries? I doubt it will come to Linux phones unless they take off or something like microg reimplements the proprietary parts. | |
| ▲ | bigyabai 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | GNOME Maps is good enough for me. I don't know what Carplay is and at this point I'd rather not ask. | | |
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| ▲ | m4tthumphrey 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Framework for using your cars infotainment system as your screen/input device. Android has something similar called Android Auto. |
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| ▲ | 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | "If Google ever stops signing apps like that, I'll be switching to a LInux phone." Is this another way of saying, "I will keep using it until it stops working" |
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| ▲ | Gabrys1 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Use Tubular, which is basically NewPipe with Sponsorblock. (And has really nice Android Auto support which I learned after a while) |
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| ▲ | nyarlathotep_ 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. NewPipe is so good and so useful. It can even play 4K and watch livestreams now. |
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| ▲ | moralestapia 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Tangential. The TIDAL app is absolute trash, it has this same issue all the time; not just that, but also, if a download fails it just hangs there and does not download the rest of the album/playlist. Also, why would you want to download things in the first place? To watch them offline, right? Well, guess what happens when you open the app w/o an internet connection ... it asks you to login, so you cannot even access your music. 900k/year TOC genius work there. The only reason why I haven't canceled is because I'm too lazy to reset my password in order to login and cancel, lol. Might do it soon, though. |
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| ▲ | galaxy_gas 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | When I try it for a month, the worst part.. your entire download queue fails forever unless you manually remove hundreds of items one by one There is no way to remove the stuck item if it's been pull from streaming library or you in country that -- such traveling etc -- does not have r ights to it. You simply cannot open the track to undownload it | | |
| ▲ | lawgimenez 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Also tried Tidal once with their trial, tried playing some music videos and it was just straight up blurry throughout. Not once did the music video played HD. |
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| ▲ | xienze 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | One thing I like about Tidal though: you can download everything, DRM-free, using tidal-ng. | |
| ▲ | OccamsMirror 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | But with TIDAL I cut them some slack because they're not a multibillion dollar behemoth. I do wish they'd improve their CarPlay search results though. I hate asking for a well known song and getting some obscure EDM remix. | | |
| ▲ | moralestapia 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Oh, but they are. It was founded by Jay-Z and then bought by the Twitter dopey guy. |
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| ▲ | martin82 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Premium subscriber here. Download feature on iOS always works flawlessly whenever I need to hop on a long haul flight (several times a year). |
