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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Will I be able to sync between my phone and PC? Otherwise I'll just keep using FreeTube.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

FreeTube has significantly more features, so there's not much reason to switch either way.

On my phone I have to use a NewPipe fork in order to get SponsorBlock working.

A sync feature between FreeTube and NewPipe would be appreciated though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Out of interest, which fork are you using? I used to use newpipe-sponsorblock but it was too slow to update and use Tubular now.

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

I believe Tubular is just descendent of "newpipe sponsorblock". I believe they are from the same developer who discontinued previous project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

PipePipe has been pretty good ime

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

I'm currently using BraveNewPipe, not sure how recent it is but it updates regularly and works well: https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Which additional platforms are supported? Bitchute Rumble

ugh no I'm good thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not that it has a lot more features but the flatpak is official and it's desktop native whereas this app is a third party that works through ATL so why bother switching.

It'd be great if these type of apps came up with a shared data format and allowed you to P2P sync with Syncthing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You can export your newpipe subs and import them into freetube. Sadly there isn't an automation for this, though

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Freetube on desktop Linux hasn't worked for me for a long time - but that doesn't seem to be the case for most people. Any tips regarding settings? I'd say it's been at least 3 or 4 months since I could reliably use it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you have it set to use the Invidious backend that might be the issue, since most Invidious instances don't work at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thank you! I actually tried setting the invidious options yesterday before making that post, thinking I might need to use that instead of localapi. But as you have predicted, no dice.

Edit - works fine after updating today lol!

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

What doesn't work? Recently it stopped launching for me unless I launch it on Xwayland explicitly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Edit: Disregard my original reply, updated today and now it works again lol!

 

It launches for me (and I am in a plasma-wayland session FWIW), and it loads the thumbnails for all videos with no problem. When I click a video as if to play it, it appears to load up the main page for that video complete with play button, but nothing at all happens when I click the play button. Along the way are various api errors from youtube, but I think some of those came in even when things were working for me.

Basically I can get this far for any video:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Is it possible to sync freetube between phone and pc?