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A comment on Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?.

Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by timonoko on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:34AM (#18073586)
Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio. But I use "youtube-dl -x" to extract audio in my home server. I listen many "podcasts" in various languages this way.

Joe Rogan is my favourite, best of those should be in Netflix. When properly translated they would have worldwide audience, like the one with Elon Musk.

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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by lyk on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:56AM (#18073729)
Check out newpipe, it's in f-droid. It supports audio-only with the screen off, and downloading audio from videos.
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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by pritambaral on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:35AM (#18074274)
On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off.

On my laptop, I use youtube-dl when I want to keep a personal copy, and mpv/vlc (which automatically using youtube-dl internally) when I just want to play something once.

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1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...

2: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by qubax on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:18AM (#18075582)
> On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off.

The problem is even if the screen is off, youtube still sends the video data to your phone. It would be nice if youtube gave us an option of "audio only" streaming so only the audio is sent. Currently the only work around is downloading the audio using youtube-dl.

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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by torvald on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:49AM (#18073687)
> Youtube sucks because you cannot turn the phone screen off and listen only the audio.

Oh but you can. I have just tested on android, but if you open YouTube in Chrome and ask for the «Desktop site» in the menu, you can play, turn of the screen (the music stops), you turn the screen on again (without unlocking), and get a little toolbar you can press play to resume playing.

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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by timonoko on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:59AM (#18073743)
But does it stop streamin video too? I was living in Norway for two months this summer. 3 hours of Joe Roagan would have been 5 euros in roaming costs. Much cheaper is to start "Youtube -x" in my Helsinki server, and repack the audio into low quality 2 mega MP3-file.
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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by marxama on Saturday September 29, 2018 @04:19PM (#18102570)
Don't know if you know this, but given your example: The MP3s of the Joe Rogan Podcast can be downloaded from his website. Just an FYI.
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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by m-localhost on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:47AM (#18082327)
Use https://huffduffer.com/ - it extracts the audio from Youtube Videos and adds it to a feed you can subscribe to. The bookmarklet lets you collect all the audio in the wild. Best service ever.
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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by runaway on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:27AM (#18073905)
That's a premium feature. I find it well worth the money, plus no ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium
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Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? by pacuna on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:19PM (#18087742)
Does it allow offline audio-only too ?
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