Its not quite the same content innit?
sorry to revive the thread here
So basically, like the OP
I use webbased m.youtube.com to stream audio to my phone sometimes (like load the video, hit home button, the audio fades away... double click home button to my media controls, hit play again, and the music plays in the background)
AND... it doesn't work anymore that way right?
Yeah, same issue here....... kinda sucks.
Luckily, MCtube is here... that's my only suggestion (like many others)
I am not sure what happened though.... is it Apple's fault or google's?
Its not quite the same content innit?
Also, Grooveshark was pulled from the App store a few years ago because there was question whether the content provided was legal.
sorry to revive the thread here
So basically, like the OP
I use webbased m.youtube.com to stream audio to my phone sometimes (like load the video, hit home button, the audio fades away... double click home button to my media controls, hit play again, and the music plays in the background)
AND... it doesn't work anymore that way right?
Yeah, same issue here....... kinda sucks.
Luckily, MCtube is here... that's my only suggestion (like many others)
I am not sure what happened though.... is it Apple's fault or google's?
Just my two cents. Does it really matter if the video plays in the background? The only use case would be to listen to the audio in the background, right? If video app developers cared, they could have the audio continue in the background, as per that apple kb.
But here's the thing. Why would google (or any other video app developer) want to allow playing audio in the background? The user won't be able to click on ads, not can they view them. So advertisers could see this as a less valuable users. Could end up hurting Google's product to their end customer.
i think you missed my point. You start a video using the YouTube app. Then you click over to safari or mail or some other app. Your issue is that YouTube stops working whereas it used to keep playing the audio.Yes, it really matters. And I'm not going to start giving you dozens of useful examples of this.
my second point hypothesizes why google may not want to build that functionality into their app. I know a lot of people that use YouTube to listen to music. They'll put together a playlist and listen away. From time to time, ads will play, thus netting YouTube some money.Your second point makes no sense. When you watch a video on the phone, it opens in full screen, there are no ads to click or view there.
Finally, image if you were watching a video in your browser on your laptop and every time you switched the tab, or minimized the window, audio/video stopped. How would you like that?
i think you missed my point. You start a video using the YouTube app. Then you click over to safari or mail or some other app. Your issue is that YouTube stops working whereas it used to keep playing the audio.
The issue seems as though apple may have changed the behavior. That link above shows that there is a way for an app developer to separate the audio and the video so that when the app is put into the background, the video stops, but the audio continues. Is that the behavior you want?
my second point hypothesizes why google may not want to build that functionality into their app. I know a lot of people that use YouTube to listen to music. They'll put together a playlist and listen away. From time to time, ads will play, thus netting YouTube some money.
If YouTube went into the background but continued to play the audio, then the user wouldn't see the ad. Sure, he'd still hear it, but it may not be as effective. I don't think the folks spending the money on ads would like that.
Or maybe I've missed your point, in which case I apologize.
YES!
That's exactly what I want, and it was possible before iOS 6.1.
It was extremely handy, I'd launch a documentary, song, TV show on YouTube or some streaming site in Safari, background it and browsed the web in Chrome.
It was one functionality advantage iOS had over Android, yet, Apple had to go ahead and ruin it.
No need for an apology at all.
I agree, yes, Google would want want to do that. However, why did Apple do it? They don't care about Google. In fact they changed the maps to get away from Google and give them less revenue.
Which makes me think, maybe Apple caved into the demands of RIAA or some other scumbag organisation? Maybe they thought "hey, people listen to music on YouTube and don't buy it from iTunes anymore, let's cut this functionality".
Either way, it was an anti-consumer thing to do, considering it was not forced on people and had no downsides, you could just choose to continue playing in the background.
https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2794977&topic=2422555&ctx=topic
on the faq google says some of its partners in the music industry prohibit background playback
I use McTube to download/play videos, it does everything that Google can't implement in their app.
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Apple did not disable it, that is why it's still possible to play videos in the background using apps like McTube or jasmine.
Google disabled it from their app because of copyright reasons, as previously noted by other posts in this thread.
lol! I switched back from Android to iOS because streaming background audio was something I missed SOO much in iOS...
Hope McTube keeps this up.