FreeTube App and YouTube Music Desktop App: What's new in 2024
If you are one of those who daily, and for various reasons, consume multimedia content about Google's proprietary and commercial platform called YouTube, you surely know and have experienced the many controversies and problems that arise around these. Some notable ones being the high consumption of hardware resources (CPU/Memory) when playing content, especially from browsers that are not Chrome or based on it. And also, when ad blockers are used from any web browser, which, every day, is more abundant and invasive on each of the videos deposited there.
However, if you are also a passionate consumer or user of free and open technologies, you most likely already know, or have tried and use, one of the multiple solutions available within the Linuxverse (free software, open source and GNU/Linux field) to mitigate or avoid these problems. And as we have addressed in previous publications, today we want to let you know about the news this year 2024 related to 2 useful and efficient applications related to this multimedia topic. And these apps are: FreeTube App and YouTube Music Desktop App.
But, before starting this publication about the new features of this year 2024 of these 2 great multimedia applications called «FreeTube App and YouTube Music Desktop App», we recommend you explore a previous related post with this theme, at the end of reading this:
What's new in 2024 for FreeTube App and YouTube Music Desktop App
What's new for FreeTube App
According to official web section on GitHub of this development called Free Tube, latest version available for this year 2024 is the number 0.19.2 Beta. And among its most notable new features are the following 3:
- An updated local API to the latest version of YouTube.js that fixes recent API bugs for both viewing and searching videos.
- Bug fixes made to resolve issues that occasionally appeared when subscriptions were updated in the local API.
- Fixed an issue associated with the Channel on the tab, more specifically where information was missing from the local API.
FreeTube is a standalone YouTube client available for Gnu/Linux, Mac and Windows. The concept of FreeTube is to offer users YouTube content, without having to endure Google saving their data. This client's player will give us a complete experience without ads. And since we are not going to use the integrated YouTube player, Google is not going to track the "views" of the videos we view. FreeTube only sends our IP details. FreeTube: A Youtube client for the Ubuntu desktop
To explore: Official Web site
Screen shots
In my case, I have tried the current version in AppImage format and then try it without needing my user login with my YouTube account, but importing my subscriptions (YouTube Channels), this is your current graphical user interface, features and potential for use:
And if you are curious to know my YouTube Channel about the Linuxverse they can click here for quick exploration.
What's new for YouTube Music Desktop App
According to official web section on GitHub of this development called YouTube Music, latest version available For this year 2024 it is number 3.3.2. And among the most notable new features of it are the following 3:
- Bug fixes related to issues in MPRIS, plus some improvements to MPRIS.
- Updated electron-updater dependency to version 6.1.8 and electron-builder to version 24.12.0.
- Updated @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin dependency to version 7.0.2 and esbuild to version 0.20.1.
YouTube Music Desktop App is an unofficial desktop application for YouTube Music, which includes built-in custom plugins such as an ad blocker and downloader. Furthermore, it is free, open and gratuitous; eitheroffers a look and feel of native use to the online platform, since it aims to maintain the original interface; heyIncludes a great set of personalized plugins, to adapt the application according to the user's needs, in terms of: style, content and features. Youtube music: An unofficial desktop client for GNU/Linux
To explore: Official Web site
Screen shots
In my case, I have tried the current version in AppImage format and after trying it by logging in with my current YouTube account, this is its current graphical user interface, features and potential for use:
Summary
In summary, and personally, after giving them a second chance and testing them for a couple of days, to validate the stable and secure operation of both applications (FreeTube App and YouTube Music Desktop App) I have been able to enjoy the benefits of them again. For example, power consume my favorite content on YouTube channels to which I am subscribed, without being bothered by invasive advertising, annoying interruptions and excessive hardware consumption. Therefore, from my new and repeated pleasant experience, I invite you once again to try both apps for the first time or again.
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Hello, very good and interesting app, but it cannot be installed on a tablet or phone, so it is of no use to me, I need to be able to synchronize an account between different devices.