A lot of android apps made using YouTube music api stopped working. Like vi music, ri music , innertune is no longer working. Google is trying their best to stop them. But you can still use them if you log in with your Google account.

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Didn’t know YouTube Music had an API.

Where is it? Can you link the documentation?

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That’s the neat part: you reverse engineer it.

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Lol, true definition of “killed by the unknown”

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If you have to reverse engineer an API you’re effectively using a private undocumented unsupported API. Why would you be surprised that a private implementation has changed without notice?

This basic programming.

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Idk if it surprises anyone, really. Besides, given those apps are trying to eat yt music’s lunch, it was more or less a matter of google considering them popular enough to take actively hostile measures… So, unsustainable in the long term, I guess.

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Yeah I’ve been having issues with innertune and have been using ytm revanced now. The big issue for me is whether or not my innertune history will be merged once I login. I fear it won’t and so haven’t signed in at all.

Edit: I said fuck it and logged in. All worked out fine.

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Not really “doing their best” if they’re still usable. Would be pretty simple for them to stop others from being to use it.

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Their best simply wasn’t good enough.

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Vimusic has been abandoned for like 2 years already. As for the others, there were issues for a quite while; besides, it’s not the 1st time yt changing some crap broke them. IMO, it’s about the right time to go navidrome + headphones + whatever provides recommendations (if you need those)

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Newpipe worked for me just now.

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Newpipe serves you Embedded Youtube Videos

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Newpipe doesn’t use any api

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Oh, thats why RiMusic stopped working for me 3 days ago… Now I have to find an alternative. Any recommendations?

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You can still use them if you log in . can’t remember if you can log in rimusic. But innertune has. Or you can try spotube for Spotify. Or go revanced

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I tried spotube few months ago and it sounds worse for some reason and thats as bad as it can gets for a music player. And revanced is closed source with patches… something sketchy…

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I know but there is a thing called harmony music https://github.com/anandnet/Harmony-Music It uses piped api. You can use it is you trust . i personally don’t use these piped api apps. For now I stopped listening music. I am not creating any Google account

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Yay. I just tried it and it works.

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Thanks, Harmony Music looks great for me!

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