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What is Grayjay?

Grayjay is a cutting-edge app that serves as a video player and source aggregator. It allows you to stream and organize videos from various sources, providing a unified platform for your entertainment needs.

It's mostly used as a YouTube frontend^. However, it is now launching as a desktop app for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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

Honestly the mobile app doesn't work for such long periods of time that I've all but given up and gone back to YouTube.

If anyone knows an app to replace YouTube that is actually reliable then let me know! I'm in the market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm on Newpipe, it only rarely stopped working like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean it doesnt work for longer periods of time? Been flawless for me ever since I started using it.

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

It either restarts part way through or stops playing as if it can't buffer anymore.

It comes and goes, sometimes I'll go a couple of weeks of it working fine then for a week or more i get the above issues.

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

...truth?

Run your own yt-dlp frontend. Punchflat... or one of the many other solutions out there. Dump your subs to a folder and let Jellyfin turn them into individual shows with episodes.

I shouldn't have to do that!

Don't tell me. Tell Google, or... pay them, I guess. Your call. I'll be over here turning my lemons into lemonade. You do whatever you want with yours.

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

Can you tell me more about these yt-dlp frontends? I've been looking for one for a long time, but I haven't really found any. I was thinking of using mov-cli instead so I atleast have a search feature.

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

Look for YouTube webuis on docker.

https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

Punchflat can dump YouTube channels on schedules in a way that Plex and Jellyfin can digest them as shows and put them up like any other show. You can auto-delete old episodes as they get old to keep your data low, or simply roll one or two month's of your subscriptions and barely keep anything.

https://github.com/gallofeliz/youtube-dl-webui

Simpler and more like a gun you aim at urls and download them. More hands-on... Pinchflat is the only one I know that integrates with Plex and Jellyfin.

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

Did you just have a whole conversation with yourself? Lol at least give me a chance to respond.

Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suspect common responses and prepare for them.

The "canned answer".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I appreciate why you're doing that and am just offering feedback you are welcome to ignore: it made me think you're a bit of a douche and I didn't feel like interacting with you much after that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, I am, good call.

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

The other most used frontends are Newpipe(and it's forks) aswell as Revanced.

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

Will check them out, cheers