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[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, I'll migrate to podbean or something else that allows me to listen with the app minimized.

[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 8 points 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.

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 5 points 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.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 2 points 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.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 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.

[-] visor841@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can also use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox

[-] Sicklad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 2 points 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.

[-] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'm installing it now.

[-] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] radix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

YouTube music allows background playback

[-] Matt@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It used to. They paywalled it with YouTube premium.

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Podcasts does but not YouTube unless you pay for a subscription

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