SpotX VS ytdl-patched

This ones for windows and its trivially easy to setup, it's called SpotX. Go to this Github link, click the green code button, download zip, and after extracting it open it up and run the "Install_new_theme.bat" file. After that just answer some questions and it'll set it up in like 12 seconds, all you need to do then is open spotify and log back in.

SpotX works just fine on my Windows PC

There's 2 methods to pick from. One is BlocktheSpot and there is the DLL injection method. Supposedly the DLL Injection method is better as it's supposed to be more resistant against auto updates and supposedly more stable. But I've only had experience with BlockTheSpot and I've been using it for a while with auto update disabled and I've been pleased with it. You can also use SpotX which is supposed to be based off of BlockTheSpot but has additional features such as update disabling. You can't go wrong with either just use whichever you prefer. Just follow the instructions linked below and you should be good to go.

just get ad free spotify app, https://github.com/amd64fox/SpotX

For more information: https://github.com/amd64fox/SpotX

Win/Mac/Linux : SpotX : You patch Spotify to remove ads.

Unfortunately no for xmanager, but SpotX does a similar job for windows

https://github.com/amd64fox/SpotX use this on desktop, xmanager on android. Does the exact same thing as the paid version, same account and everything. Just download, log in, cancel your sub and keep using it for free.

For me, the less-complicated client called "DVD" is more reliable for downloading than the client called "Newpipe"; the later stops working intermittently. YMMV.

(Neither are as reliable as using own custom command line programs on desktop, or mobile via Termux. If Google makes a change I can fix/workaround immediately. No waiting for app developers.)

For me, Newpipe works well as a Soundlcoud client.

From the Kotlin source for "dvd":

Video downloader app powered by yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl).

Features

Download video/audio from 1000+ sites supported by yt-dlp.

Run custom yt-dlp commands.

Update yt-dlp version from settings.

Share link via other apps.

References

dvd - https://github.com/yausername/dvd

youtubedl-android - https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android

yt-dlp - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (formerly youtube-dl - https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl)

yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Once downloaded, the video files can be played anywhere, on any device.

If yt-dlp works, you can also use Celluloid to watch videos from Youtube — choose Open Location and enter the YouTube video or playlist page.

=> https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

=> https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/io.github.celluloid_player.Ce...

I'd recommend you to have a look at yt-dlp [0] and NewPipe extractor [1]

[0] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Couldn't you just use the subtitles from youtube directly?

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#subtitle-options

Or are these worse than whisper?

yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

yt-dlp or one of its many GUI frontends.

Give yt-dlp a try: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

The only ads are the ones the creators insert into the videos themselves.

youtube-dl is broken now and barely updated for some byzantine reasons, no?

yt-dlp is supposed to be the new hotness, though I've yet to try it. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/