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This release is a hot fix one. You can import settings again, the long press menu got a new button with which you can now queue media directly after the current one and many changes to buttons. So many buttons. Like loads of buttons. New Did you ever carefully build an hour-long playlist by queuing songs after songs, just to realize that you actually want a specific song next? Previously that mean...

This release brings you working imports from your YouTube subscriptions export through Google Takeout, an “Always go into full screen” toggle when you play a video via the main player (welcome back, you were sorely missed, auto full screen!), a new Invidious instance, and so much more, that you basically have to read on. New Rejoice! @talanc fixed an issue plaguing users since late July: Google ch...

Hi. This release is definitely worth checking out. We are talking thumbnail previews when seeking on YouTube, hearts from YouTube channels on comments, a proper UI for disabled YouTube comments as well as other improved sections of the UI, and so much more. Read on to find out! Before we start, we would like to welcome two new members to the NewPipe development team: @litetex and @FireMasterK . We...

Hi! We skipped doing a blog post for the last hotfix release (version 0.21.7) because it was quite tiny. So we’ve added the changes from that version here. As a bonus, you get some other much needed fixes and a MAJOR API improvement for YouTube that we’ve been waiting for eagerly! Enjoy. Fixed First and foremost, the raison d’être for this blog post: the buffering fix. YouTube recently changed the...

Today brings you 0.21.6, and hopefully much joy. We made slight improvements to the UI of our app: You now get notified about deleted channels upon opening them, or when refreshing your feed, and you can instantly search hashtags given in video descriptions. NewPipe also properly supports the Storage Access Framework , which allows you to save your downloads to an external storage medium (such as...

“What?”, you exclaim. “A new update? And it’s not even a hotfix? But we had the last update just a few days ago!” Well, deal with it. B) (For the millenials, B) is the cool sunglasses emoji that your parents used in the pre-Unicode era.) Don’t get used to it, though. This is still a volunteer project being done in everyone’s free time. This indeed isn’t a hotfix. And it isn’t even a minor update!...

You want another update? We have another update. Welcome to version 0.21.3, where nothing extraordinarily exciting happened. But hey, you can move NewPipe to your SD card now, and you get some quality of life changes as well as bug fixes, which is also nice, isn’t it? So take a relaxing cup of tea and read through this blog post about relaxing changes. Relax. Deep breaths. Hot tea. And let’s guide...

We have provided more details below, but if you do not need/care about this or already know what this is about, here is a TL;DR: NewPipe has an active IRC channel where developers and users chat and ask/answer questions. This channel has been moved from freenode to the brand new Libera. Chat network. We no longer provide a channel on freenode, and urge you to leave that network as soon as possible...

Here’s another point release for our lovely users. This release refines Bandcamp support, lays the groundwork for an upcoming feature, and adds many little quality-of-life improvements and fixes that we think quite a few users will have reason to be happy about. Also, if you want to use SoundCloud, you need to update to this release. New @B0pol added the ability to extract video metadata from YouT...

This is a hotfix release to bypass the new YouTube consent page shown to users in the European Union. The workaround used for this is not guaranteed to work forever, though. It may be deprecated soon. The team is working to find a proper long-term solution to the problem. For the non-EU users: Carry on! Nothing to see here. Where to get this brand-new version NewPipe notifies you about new version...

The European Commission (EC), represented by Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, and Team NewPipe jointly organized a hackathon to develop new healthcare solutions, as announced on our social media accounts. Driven by the slow pace at which the vaccinations are conducted for the current worldwide pandemic, the EC asked EU’s...

Make way for the MVP! Welcome to a brand new release of NewPipe! We fed NewPipe lots of Rare Candies, and after quite a long while, NewPipe learned an awesome new attack: Bandcamp ! This was added by @fynngodau , who patiently waited for a year and some months it took us to review, test, forget, double-review, double-test and merge his changes. Please check it out and tell us if you encounter any...

Welcome to the first hotfix release of 2021 - let us hope it will be the last one. This release fixes SoundCloud, receiving some YouTube content, an app crash and brings you a new translation. Changes A short release, so this blog post is short as well. These are the fixes which found their way into this release: Thanks to @TiA4f8R , getting related videos from channels works again in YouTube. @Xi...

Long time no see! We were busy behind the scenes, and can now present you quite a few new features as well as the usual tranche of bug fixes and improvements. First and foremost, though, two more developers have joined Team NewPipe. Welcome, @XiangRongLin and @vkay94 ! New PeerTube Sepia Search PeerTube has had a longstanding problem that it is difficult to search for videos across instances when...

You might have guessed it from the title already. The new release 0.20.8 implements support for the media.ccc.de live stream system . That’s it! Keep moving, nothing else to see here! Well, not really. Keep reading for more information as well as some screenshots. Support for media.ccc.de live streams Some of you might be aware that the Chaos Communication Congress (a.k.a. C3) was cancelled due to...

Merry Christmas, if you celebrate that, and almost Happy New Year, if you use a calendar at least close to the Gregorian one. We want to present you a little gift as a good way to start 2021 AD/CE (or the year 12021 in the Human Era , according to Kurzgesagt): The next release of NewPipe. It comes with a lot of improvements, fixes, and even a big new feature. So let us dive into this release post!...

Starting today, we have changed our blog’s comment system. In this post, we explain what we changed, why we did so, and how this affects you as a loyal reader. TL;DR: We introduce a simple set of rules, as well as moderation. How our blog works technically ( the boring introduction ) Our blog is basically a set of static HTML pages, some JavaScript and CSS code, all served by an arbitrary webserve...

The NewPipe project recently had a few debates on advertising, its ethics and how Team NewPipe decides whether or not a certain form of advertising is acceptable. In this article, we present our position on advertising in general, show the difference between ethical and unethical advertising, and explain why we do not intend to support technologies like SponsorBlock. Why we don’t like (conventiona...

The last update contained dozens of changes. Although we provided release candidates for testing to a wider audience, some regressions slipped through. This small update addresses critical bugs introduced in the last release, re-adds the option to hide the thumbnail on the lock screen when playing a stream in background mode, and brings a few optimizations “under the hood”. New in this version Aft...

Another point release is here! We’re still focusing mostly on improvements and fixes, so no major features. @TobiGr was busy this time around, so the release manager for this version is @Stypox ! We owe him our thanks! New Since the behaviour and function of queues has changed dramatically in the unified player, all the different enqueuing options have been replaced with a… unified one. This contr...

By now, most of you must be aware of the youtube-dl repo on Github being suspended because of a DMCA notice. Team NewPipe member @TheAssassin has written a detailed analysis of the situation. You can find the article on his blog! Update (2020-11-24): youtube-dl’s repository has been restored, thanks to the EFF . @TheAssassin posted an update , explaining what happened in the meantime, and reviewin...

So this is a “hot” fix, as they say. Since the previous post was so long (too long) this will be positively tiny in comparison. Let’s dive right into it. YouTube Decryption error (“Could not load decryption code for the Youtube service.”): When you try to open video details for any video, you could randomly encounter this error, because YouTube doesn’t send over the relevant data. (YouTube is a bi...

Hey there, NewPipers! It’s been quite long since the last release. But for good reason: This release comes with quite major changes to the way NewPipe works, visibly as well as under the hood. Reworked UI Embedded Playback in Portrait orientation Videos will now play in the details page when in portrait orientation. By default, playback will start automatically upon opening. To accommodate this ch...

Dear NewPipers, NewPipe Users, Hello World! It’s a weird time right now. Many things have changed and don’t work like they used to before. However, NewPipe and the NewPipe project just continue like nothing happens. NewPipe constantly gets bigger and better. People keep working on it and organize the project like COVID-19 doesn’t exist. For example, just a week ago we had the very first developer...

YouTube is back to working again! Apart from that, NewPipe 0.19.7 and 0.19.8 come with auto-play for all services and numerous fixes. Once again: YouTube fixes Ah - what a night! Did you sleep well? Well, we didn’t. On Monday, YouTube decided to change some things in their player again. These kinds of changes typically modify how the data of contained streams is extracted. As a result, NewPipe and...