Howdy! Major update just happened with Spotube! Audiophiles get ready! They upgraded YouTube streaming quality to Apple Music quality with 256k instead of 128-154. It also sounds a more lively punch to the sound that beats any other YT music clone out there.

Then they added a dab music plugin that streams at lossless quality! How about that!!!!

Give it a second go. The interface still needs a little work but got a lot better since 5.0. There's some bugs. Took me forever to figure out I couldn't sign in to Dab with a VPN on and it actually was making playlist I created despite the error I was given. But the audio quality is worth it.

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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

DAB + ListenBrainz looks so awesome

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I'm eagerly awaiting feedback on my bug report so I can use dab. They have a separate dab player outside of spotube but its not as cool.

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I tried to use it for sleep music playlist I listened to on Spotify. Most of it was ok, but at least one song was replaced with some weird audio that said something about cryptocurrency-something-2025 in a loud robotic voice. I woke up several times because of it. The same song on Spotify was a generic ambient track... It was so weird, I stayed with metrolist.

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah it needs work for sure! I also have Metrolist and its the best! I'm going to keep following spotube and keep Metrolist as a secondary.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, maybe I'm an idiot, but I cant find a single song I have on my playlists from YT or Spotify.

Not even Queen or ABBA comes up. Am I using it wrong? Only did the install.

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

You have to activate the plugins. Its nuts and really needs simplifying. Go into settings, plug ins and set your default meta source to Spotify and default audio source to youtube. It pulls all of it's data to and from Spotify while pulling the audio from yt music. You have to make a generic Spotify account. Once it works its worth it. You do not have to sign in for yt music. Also in settings you can set it to pull from newpipe instead of yt directly. You can also set your audio quality in settings. Once that works you can try he dab HQ plugin. I haven't gotten that to work yet but sent in an issue request.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'll give this another try. Last time I tried it, it was unusably slow.

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah my first attempt was 5.0. The interface was just too terrible. But now the quality makes it worth it. In the settings you can also set it to use Newpipe instead of YouTube directly. Which is awesome for a super nerd like me.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nice work! I appreciate the effort put in. I'm going to download it now and have a look.

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Awesome! Its just cool and refreshing to have a new audio player using new API's and audio quality. Its fun. Mostly all the other yt apps are just which one actually works consistently for you and with which interface do you like? Quality is all the same.