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    Smart Tube in TV and Tubular on phone (plus Grayjay, but but I’m not fond of their UX).

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      Grayjay

      Yeah, it kind of sucks, and the performance on my phone is worse than NewPipe, but I haven’t found anything else that combines feeds from other sources (Odysee, Nebula, etc), so I still use it.

      There are also some missing features, like browsing channel playlists.

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        It has a ways to make it go, for sure. That UX reminds me of WinAmp way back in the day 🤣

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          WinAmp was awesome! I loved having it as a floating bar to control my music.

          But honestly, the UX is mostly okay for me, except the settings, that really needs some cleanup. Also, rotation is completely broken.

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              the one thing that’s flawless for me is the screen rotation

              Really? So you can watch videos horizontally without the video randomly flipping to vertical and back?

              I’ve tried messing with the settings, but it doesn’t seem to do anything. See this bug report, finding that setting was a nightmare, and it didn’t even do anything. If it was open source, I’d probably go make a fix, but it’s not, so I guess I’ll just complain about it.

              And yeah, that menu sucks as well. I hope Futo hires a UX person because it could be so much nicer to use. I’m impressed at how well it works though, so that dev is doing a top notch job.

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                Yup, rotation just works out of the box. Tested on Graphene, Calyx and Stock Pixel Android on a Pixel 7 Pro. Also, what I love about it is that it just works (other than the eventual YouTube captcha) for every instance enabled.

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                  Weird. Mine works a lot of the time, but then randomly flips vertical and then horizontal. I can be holding my phone super stable, and it still does it.

                  My phone is kinda old and crappy though (Android 11), so maybe it’s less of an issue on newer phones, but I don’t have this issue on any other app.

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                    That thing is still in beta, so it stands to reason that it’s not able to do everything right all the time in all devices. My suggestion is that, unless you’re watching on peertube, Odysee, rumble or something like that, stick to Tubular.