• @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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    6 hours ago

    By “Developer of the Newpipe app”

    Hmm…

    Unverified

    It’s a “No” from me. I’ll stick to Freetube.

    For those unaware, being verified means it is packaged by the official developer/team.

      • @SatyrSack@feddit.org
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        65 hours ago

        Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

        My guess is that they did not want to take credit as the developer of NewPipe itself. As if to say “We did not develop NewPipe, we just packaged it as a Flatpak”. There is probably a better way to get that across in the byline, but I believe that is the intent.

    • @FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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      127 hours ago

      It is an appstore for Flatpaks. Flatpaks are a universal app package for Linux that runs in a sort of containerized environment. They’re very prolific in the immutable linux world.

  • @hobbsc
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    37 hours ago

    I hoped for this for a long time before I found freetube. I’m still going to check it out, though. This is great news!

  • @Quail4789@lemmy.ml
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    99 hours ago

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

    • Domi
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      129 hours ago

      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.

      • @Quail4789@lemmy.ml
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        39 hours ago

        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.

        • @hobbsc
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          17 hours ago

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

    • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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      49 hours ago

      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.

      • carly™
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        38 hours ago

        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.

      • @Quail4789@lemmy.ml
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        19 hours ago

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

  • @olof@lemmy.ml
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    1110 hours ago

    Does this run on x86/64 bit systems? Or this is for Linux smartphones more.

    • @GenderNeutralBro
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      2310 hours ago

      It says:

      Available Architectures
      aarch64, x86_64

      And it uses Android Translation Layer. Interesting. I’ll give it a shot on my desktop later.

    • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      810 hours ago

      It says it’s available for both Intel and Arm architectures. However, I don’t know how well that actually works for both of them in practice.