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Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by rahidz »

indigodaddy wrote: post #75

I pay for YTM, so haven’t ever tried any of these Adblocking things for YT. I think $10/mo is pretty decent for a music service and also the removal of all ads from YT (which includes their fairly decent library of free movies that would be ad-supported without YTM/YTP)

I also pay for Youtube Music/YT, but I exclusively use Vanced on my phone, as it integrates with Sponsorblock, locks in a set quality setting (unlike the actual YT app which keeps kicking me to 480p when it feels like it), removes a lot of the cruft on the home page, and as of recently shows downvotes.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by cortesoft »

0des wrote: post #35
suetoniusp91 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This post glows

The people here don't use that term, and they aren't the type to accept it. You get what I mean? It's only associated with bad outcomes here.

I have never heard the term. What does it mean?

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by metadat »

Shared404 wrote: post #69
metadat wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the casting isn't meant to actually work, it'd be great if the devs would get rid of the button... Sorry, but until such things are rectified, New Pipe is a hell no for me; -10/10, worse than vanced, cannot recommend sharp-edged user-unfriendly software. Even when it's OSS and privacy friendly. For a similar case, see gnuPGP. We all know how that one ended up not saving the world :(

I should specify I was talking about chromecast specifically - I think it may support other protocols. That being said, I can't find the cast button you're talking about. I also can't find the sharp edges you mention[0] could you give other examples? In my experience I've just had it do what it says on the box with no fuss. [0] though I'll admit my tastes are minimalistic and I avoid cloud tools as much as possible -…

Others have already covered the sharp edges elsewhere in this thread.

My specific (brief) experiences include: Instead of playing the video..

- Wait forever while it spins.

- Crashes randomly. Repeatedly.

- No way to reference previously watched or liked videos.

- Atrocious, non-functional search.

Have all these bugs have been fixed in the past 6 months?

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by Biganon »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #40
0des wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a nitpick, the word it's does not imply possession, you are looking for 'its'. If you cannot substitute your usage of it's with 'it is' then it is the wrong one to use.

English spelling is so fucked up. Possessives normally have the apostrophe, except the possessive pronouns. Just because.

See also "whose", because "who's" would have made too much sense I guess

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by metadat »

Shared404 wrote: post #71
corndoge wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Because casting requires usage of Google API's and NewPipe is privacy oriented. Do you happen to have a link to a GitHub issue or some other background? I'd like to learn more about this, I was under the impression cast-type devices (including Chromecast) usually implement DLNA which should be interface-able without any proprietary APIs. This is just from vague readings and recollections though.

I read a somewhat long discussion on it a while ago on Github, I'll edit when I find it. Found it! The discussion was regarding Chromecast specifically,so I don't know about other cast setups. Also is from Nov 2021, so possibly out of date at this point? I've linked to the concluding comment here, I found the whole chain worth reading however: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/668#issuecomme...

Thanks for digging that up Shared404 (btw, cool HN profile, though I can't figure out what is "PFY"?)

Is the biggest challenge really in providing an AppID? I must be missing something because that doesn't seem like a big privacy concern or technical hurdle, which brings us back to no traceable logical problem other than "it's hard to do and I don't get paid for this" (which would be a fair position for an OSS maintainer to take).

Maybe the should look at how VLC streams to Chromecasts, because at least in the case of VLC, it's FOSS and sort of works.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by meibo »

izacus wrote: post #44
Drainik wrote: post #19

Would it be possible to use it if the source code is forked?

There isn't really a "source code" per-se for Vanced, they took the official YouTube app, decompiled it, applied hacks and recompiled it - pretty much very much the same way we hacked key checks and CD copy protections back in the day. So if there's anything resembling source, it's more of a diff of a certain YouTube app version you can't just cleanly upload somewhere or even apply to new versions.

Other projects like this on Android extract the official APK, then patch it and resign it on the device. Distributing the actual APK was a technical decision that now bit them.

Re: Vanced has been discontinued

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Post by nightfly »

gundamdoubleO wrote: post #64

Welp. Using the official Youtube app is a miserable experience. Guess it's time to check out NewPipe again.

What problems do you have with the official app? I normally have large list of complaints about video streaming services, and I don't have a single issue with the Android Youtube app
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