Grayjay for desktop has arrived!
Grayjay App - Follow Creators Not Platforms
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.
I really wish there was a truly open source version of GrayJay because GrayJay is actually Not OpenSource It's a cool application, don't get me wrong, but it NEEDS to be OpenSource & not "Source-First/Source-Available"
Yikes. I'll be sticking with NewPipe and other FOSS apps.
It is open source, just not free open source
Typically licenses not OSI approved are referred to as "Source available" rather than "Open source". This is one reason FUTO (who make Grayjay) refer to their license as "Source first" and not "Open Source" (though they did call it that for a while before clarifying and switching to the new term).
It's proprietary
Grayjay mobile is awesome, very much looking forward to checking this out. Love how it puts all my YouTube, Patreon, Twitch and Peertube content in one place.
95℅ of the time my Patreon feeds fail to load. This isn't your experience?
There's an occasional error popup during playback, but the feeds and video still work here. I'm on Grayjay v268 w/ Patreon v17
My biggest issue is Peertube tbh, discovery is difficult, border line useless.
Why can't they be a website than an app for Dekstop?
Also understood that they're not open-source but are they privacy-respecting?
Edit: Went through their privacy policy and seems they're privacy-focused. I will be trying their app now.
Yeah if you know who's behind Futo (Louis Rossman) you will know he fights very hard for better privacy across the board among other things that are better for us consumers.
Edit: Futo being the company behind this app and other privacy respective apps.
when it comes to right to repair he's amazing. that being said, however, he hasn't had much positive to say about the SteamDeck which is leagues ahead of something like the Nintendo switch in terms of user freedoms and customizability.
Granted that's like one take I disagree with compared to ALL he's done but I'm still surprised he hasn't made a followup about how much good it's done for Linux in general considering he's been using Linux since it was in a physical box lol
the app is source available, it places some restrictions on modifications of the source code, but the code is fully available
Personally I've been using FreeTube for accessing YouTube as they are FOSS. Only thing I wish they would have a feature to share like subs with Tubular and watch history somehow. It doesn't have all the platforms Grayjay has but for just YouTube its pretty great
The peertube app recently launched and its pretty decent for a first release
It's an alpha release, so expect it to be buggy. Overall this is a good thing. We need more frontends.
Yes, finally! I've been using the mobile app, and it has been nothing but amazing.
That's awesome. I love the grayjay mobile app. I need more non YouTube creators to follow though
That zip file is just one command away from an appimage
Mobile app has been the best YouTube app replacement I've found. And I just got the pop up about the desktop app on my drive home from work. Will for sure check it out.
I wish it more closely mirrored YouTube's native video suggestions, but it's pretty damn close.
No website version? I hope the desktop app isn't Electron-based then.
Edit: It is. What the fuck?
Lots of desktop front ends.
Meanwhile I got to emulate Android to run S-Tube because there's nothing good for remote control use for Plasma Bigscreen.
At least my Bigscreen "easy to use" legit package might be done soon.
Epic!
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.
What do you mean it doesnt work for longer periods of time? Been flawless for me ever since I started using it.
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.
...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.
Did you just have a whole conversation with yourself? Lol at least give me a chance to respond.
Thanks for the recommendation.
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.
The other most used frontends are Newpipe(and it's forks) aswell as Revanced.
Will check them out, cheers
I'm on Newpipe, it only rarely stopped working like this.
Hopefully there's light mode
We sorely need a Truely FOSS/Libre Alternative to GrayJay (Preferably under an AGPL Licence) So to get the ball rolling, What does GrayJay have that FOSS alternatives like let's say NewPipe doesn't ??
Does it have tabs? if not I can't see myself caring.
It doesn't look like it does. It has multiple stackable windows, though.
Still can't set the video speed above 2.25x? Otherwise it's useless to me.
You'll have to teach me how you can follow/enjoy/understand any media at such high speed before I can understand your statement.
Gradualism
At first I watched every YouTube video on 1.5x for like 6 months.
Then I watched everything on 1.8X for another 6 months. Then 2.2x and so on.
Now I watch everything between 2.8x and 3.6x, Depends on the talking speed of the person in the video. I can understand everything.
Of course I watch some videos in normal 1x speed but those are usually just like artistic videos or movie trailers and stuff like that. If there is just a person talking to the camera, there is no reason for me to watch it in normal speed.
There are some YouTubers that are easily understandable at those speeds. Watching them at 1x is like watching paint dry.
I rarely watch anything below 1.5 unless it's dense or I genuinely like their cadence.