I used to run YouTube Vanced on my phone for years until Google killed it a few years ago. Since I was already paying a monthly sub for YouTube Music (been using that since the Google Play Music days and had my whole iTunes uploaded there) I decided to spend the extra 1-2 bucks a month for the Youtube Music + YouTube Premium combination, since that seemed like less effort than keeping up with ReVanced builds constantly.
Last month I tried getting a student discount for my subscription, but after a day I got an email telling me Google was canceling my sub for an unspecified reason.
I decided not to renew it, and instead downloaded ReVanced, and spent a few days redownloading all the albums I only had on streaming, and integrating those along with my old iTunes folder into my Jellyfin I already had set up for movies.
Now I’m saving 15 bucks a month, and have regained full control over my music library. Feels pretty nice, and the Symfonium music app on Android looks 10x better than the ever-changing UIs of YTM ever did.
Also feels great not to give a single cent to an accomplice to Israel’s genocidal mania across the middle east anymore. I had already severed ties with Google’s mail, photo storage and search a year or two ago.
Get fucked Google.
Vanced or ReVanced? I seem to remember Vanced being broken by an update some time after Google C&D’d the project, leading to the creation of ReVanced a while later But maybe I’m misremembering, as its been a few years.
Oh wow! Getting rid of the mail is a little hard. I was trying to do immich for pictures but I’m having a hard time with opening folders to docker. I’m a beginner with docker so I’m on my 4th install try
I used to run YouTube Vanced on my phone for years until Google killed it a few years ago. Since I was already paying a monthly sub for YouTube Music (been using that since the Google Play Music days and had my whole iTunes uploaded there) I decided to spend the extra 1-2 bucks a month for the Youtube Music + YouTube Premium combination, since that seemed like less effort than keeping up with ReVanced builds constantly.
Last month I tried getting a student discount for my subscription, but after a day I got an email telling me Google was canceling my sub for an unspecified reason. I decided not to renew it, and instead downloaded ReVanced, and spent a few days redownloading all the albums I only had on streaming, and integrating those along with my old iTunes folder into my Jellyfin I already had set up for movies.
Now I’m saving 15 bucks a month, and have regained full control over my music library. Feels pretty nice, and the Symfonium music app on Android looks 10x better than the ever-changing UIs of YTM ever did.
Also feels great not to give a single cent to an accomplice to Israel’s genocidal mania across the middle east anymore. I had already severed ties with Google’s mail, photo storage and search a year or two ago. Get fucked Google.
Google killed it ? I’m still using it.
Vanced or ReVanced? I seem to remember Vanced being broken by an update some time after Google C&D’d the project, leading to the creation of ReVanced a while later But maybe I’m misremembering, as its been a few years.
Oh wow! Getting rid of the mail is a little hard. I was trying to do immich for pictures but I’m having a hard time with opening folders to docker. I’m a beginner with docker so I’m on my 4th install try
Keep up with revanced patches ? You need to update maybe once every few years