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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Always happy to see NewPipe getting updates.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Channel tabs?!?!?! Woohoo!!! πŸŽ‰

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Changelog

New:

  • Support channel tabs
  • Select image quality
  • Get URLs to all images

Improved:

  • Accessibility of player interfaces
  • Better audio selection for video-only downloads
  • Option to include playlist and video names to shared playlist content

Fixed:

  • [YouTube] Fix getting like count
  • Fix player not responding popups and crashes
  • Selection of wrong languages in language picker
  • Player audio focus was not respecting mute
  • Playlist item addition occasionally not working
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

i hate to be that guy but i still cant see why not just use libretube at this point... newpipe has always been just a fair bit too far behind libretube in functionality for me to daily drive it. only reason i can think of is the removing from playlists bug, audio-only streaming bug, or piped inexplicably not working for you since ive heard some people are cursed like that lol. those are still pretty niche though. im honestly curious, what are some reasons you folks have picked one over the other?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Libretube was always unstable with watching videos due to they using piped to show youtube content. Newpipe didn't used piped. I always wanted something like Libretube with a backed of Newpipe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

that's reasonable i guess, though im only really interested in YouTube frontends for the privacy benefits which piped helps greatly with. why not use something like revanced, or why not turn off the piped proxy in libretube?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Revanced just patched the exisiting YouTube app which is not FOSS. And i already turn off the proxy but it's not working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

fair enough! if it works, it works, i guess. the proxy disable doesn't seem to work for me either, by the way, i just checked! i guess it's probably a known issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don’t have android. Invidious has been pretty nice though. It’s what I’m currently using.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

oh LOL that's a pretty great reason!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Been waiting for channel tabs for a long time. In my mind that completes NewPipe and makes it perfect.

Where do you find images that you could get a link to? I don't understand that feature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Where do you find images that you could get a link to? I don't understand that feature

The app now shows links to images that NewPipe fetches like thumbnails, avatars and banners. You can find them in the video descriptions and in the 'About' channel tab.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd be happy if it just stopped crashing constantly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could lend a hand or donate some money, you know! I mean, they do provide it to you for free after putting up with all the shit that Google throws at them. You don't have to be grateful. But the least you could do is not insult someone's charity they pay with their personal time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could send crash logs and report the issue on github or wherever they host the code. That's definitely pitching in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is how professionals complain. Good show.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago