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jamespullar · 2020-05-19 22:43:31+00:00

Spotify actually has supported video for a while (https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/videos...). However, the feature itself is horribly hidden. I have in the past accidentally come across music videos, but right now can't intentionally find any video content to cite as an example.

Edit: Another article discussing Spotify testing video content https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/6/21249389/spotify-video-pod...

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NullPrefix | karma 2283 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2023-10-09 19:10:08

Video seeking as a paid feature. Don't use it personally, but I've heard Spotify has something like that implemented where you can't just skip songs willy nilly.

quaunaut | karma 2515 | avg karma 4.86 · | 2015-10-21 17:26:56

The real killer app here is the ability to play videos in the background as music for your phone. Most of my favorite music isn't available on Spotify/Apple Music/etc, but quite a bit of it is on Youtube.

It'd be interesting if they UI of this got good enough to employ it as a streaming replacement.

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sanjayv2 | karma 3 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2024-03-25 16:38:39

Doesn't YouTube have a playlist feature just for these use cases?

schinta | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2023-07-18 11:16:27

I've been waiting for something like this! Does it support YouTube videos?

evanjrowley | karma 559 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2023-12-04 08:25:38

At least for when videos are uploaded, I believe YouTube offers that option.

sharemywin | karma 5432 | avg karma 0.74 · | 2018-01-24 20:10:20+00:00

Youtube has an option.

sdenton4 | karma 9649 | avg karma 3.54 · | 2015-10-21 19:46:19+00:00

Pretty sure the Youtube Music app has a 'don't stream the video' mode.

shaklee3 | karma 2976 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2020-11-12 14:12:31+00:00

Thanks for reminding me about another. The desktop version forces you to play videos for songs you've uploaded unless you have a subscription. Waste of bandwidth.

terhechte | karma 4149 | avg karma 4.1 · | 2014-08-18 07:59:20+00:00

I like the idea, would it be possible to add YouTube support (or does that maybe already exist)? (Of course, only playing the audio part and ignoring the video)

Tosh108 | karma 43 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2013-05-06 21:30:42+00:00

Should be, there was a similar kind of app online for a while at jukeboxfor.me. There you only played music from youtube, no video.

2038AD | karma 271 | avg karma 1.43 · | 2020-02-10 06:16:07+00:00

YouTube also recently added a similar feature that's more limited

digisth | karma 2395 | avg karma 4.61 · | 2015-10-11 01:23:59+00:00

Yeah, YouTube I knew about (though they do make the option a bit harder to find than they should) but AFAIK, there are no equivalents for Vine, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Facebook embeds I haven't looked at, though.

alex_c | karma 9040 | avg karma 5.44 · | 2008-12-11 12:42:25

Off-topic, but Youtube has that feature too.

vsakos | karma 272 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2014-06-05 08:24:57+00:00

It's actually a well-designed youtube client that doesn's show the video to the users, just the music, am i right?

code_duck | karma 8738 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2011-11-16 23:16:02+00:00

Grooveshark has some significant improvements related to Youtube - songs each have their own pages with a Video section, and you can click to play Youtube videos in a modal window. It's in their 'preview' site at the moment.

cglong | karma 4310 | avg karma 6.03 · | 2023-09-26 13:29:01

As a free user on Android, I'm able to use YT in PiP mode with any non-music video. Also FWIW, I doubt YT Music will ever have enough monopolistic control over the podcast industry to take away such fundamental functionality.

lovskogen | karma 645 | avg karma 1.31 · | 2010-09-11 11:31:55+00:00

YouTube.com has this feature.

lovskogen | karma 645 | avg karma 1.31 · | 2010-09-11 11:31:55+00:00

YouTube.com has this feature.

hk_kh | karma 102 | avg karma 0.97 · | 2012-07-09 14:16:50+00:00

Nice.

It's funny to think that two years ago, while in a travel to Sweden, Youtube had a similar feature (not for music, but you could search without stopping the current playing video). When I got back home the feature was gone, so I assume they were testing the feature in different countries?

Does anyone recall this?

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