Freetube alternative?
Freetube alternative?
After years of promises of implementing playlists and quietly removing it from their featured to do list, id like to see what alternative yall could recommend thats equally permanent and allows you to create playlists?
By permanent i mean that with freetube, i dont have much fear that it will suddenly go dark like an invidious instance, id like to have something similar with an alternative if possible.
any help is highly appreciated.
with freetube, i dont have much fear that it will suddenly go dark like an invidious instance
except that a change on Youtube's backend can definitely make it go dark all of a sudden. it happens every now and then with Newpipe.
perhaps, but freetube as far as i remember had that issue noticeably only once? and im not sure if it was that even
This is a frustration. I'm sure there's a fork with play lists. One second.....
No. I am sorry. I must be wrong. It might have been a newpipe fork.
thank you for your effort, i actually tried going through newpipe on my phone, but as you might imagine, this became increasingly frustrating as a pc user
There are many requests to get them to sync, and I believe that eventually, it will happen.
Greyjay is great, but only mobile app sadly, no hosted browser version.
For now I just have piped to save playlists in (you dont even need an account for that) but every instance I've tried goes dark more and more often each month. Great alternative and I wish all the best to everyone working on it, including the hosters but Freetube works pretty much without issues for many months now.
I know you mentioned invidious going dark, but self hosting it is a piece of cake honestly so you don't have to worry about the flakiness of other people's servers. And the script is so easy to use. I ran this for a long time on a Rock64 with 1GB of RAM with no issues until I switched to Proxmox.
if you have exactly the 6 system they mention (the script hates distros) than it may or may not work as for selfhosting, which i did with invidious before feels even more unstable and shaky than a public instance, how do i know my little piece of shit ip isnt gonna be banned for one reason or another, or that invidious keeps working since it hasnt received a proper new release since 2019
if you have exactly the 6 system they mention (the script hates distros) than it may or may not work as for selfhosting, which i did with invidious before feels even more unstable and shaky than a public instance, how do i know my little piece of shit ip isnt gonna be banned for one reason or another, or that invidious keeps working since it hasnt received a proper new release since 2019
Invidious is constantly updated and new releases posted. If you're looking at github for your release info, they've moved to quay long ago. I'm currently on 2023.11.04-438467f6 @ master. Tell me what you were hosting it on before and what you think you would be hosting it on now and maybe I can help if you feel you had problems in the past. It has come a long way since 2019. Also, do you have a link to your IP's TOS? I can look over it really quick and see if they would have a problem with it.
a random list of services doesnt really help me much imo, i was specifically asking for your personal opinion on which would serve these needs
That's all there really is. It's easy enough to just try these. I've been looking to set up a local piped instance but the android app still needs some work.
I'm not aware of any other usable tool worth using apart from yt-dlp'ing everything and watching locally I guess?
Maybe https://peertube.tv/ ? I’ve never used it but it does appear to have playlists.
peertube also is extremely empty on most instances and setting it up is a nightmare