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.
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.
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.
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.
The current Podcasts app does, but 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.
Nah, I’ll migrate to podbean or something else that allows me to listen with the app minimized.
YouTube Music allows the app to be minimized, AFAIK.
It’s standard YouTube (non-premiun) that requires the app to be in the foreground.
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.
Yt-dlp, Ublock Origin and Newpipe all cost $0 tho
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.
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.
Share to - - > Newpipe Sponsorblock also works.
Is there sponsorblock on the phone?
Yes, on Android:
Firefox/Fennec/fork of Firefox + Sponsorblock
Newpipe Sponsorblock
Youtube Revanced
I wonder why uBlock Origin blocks revanced:
Because it’s not the right webpage. The official page is revanced.app or you can directly go to the github.
I see it’s not the official website, interesting.
Thanks for this, now I have sponsorblock on the phone and on the TV also, very cool!
No problem, the youtube experience without adblock and sponsorblock is bad. If you have AndroidTV, SmartTube is a thing.
Yeah, that’s what I installed, it’s really good! I just wosh something simmilar would exist for PeerTube too.
You can also use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox
Or install YouTube revanced, and get rid if ads too.
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.
InnerTune. No ads, no account. Minimize/do what you want.
Thanks! I’m installing it now.
Does Google Podcasts really not support that? Because that’s like… the basics.
The current Podcasts app does, but 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.
YouTube Music is a different app altogether, on mobile devices at least.
YouTube music allows background playback
Google Podcasts does, but background play is a premium feature on YouTube Music.
It used to. They paywalled it with YouTube premium.
Podcasts does but not YouTube unless you pay for a subscription