Charlie O’Hara

I ditched my Youtube Premium subscription and started using TubeSync instead. Now I have my subscriptions showing up in Jellyfin, where I can watch them without Le Algorithm watching me or trying to persuade me to watch other thngs.

An additional upside is automatic integration with Sponsorblock, so all big-name videos come down freed of several minutes of sponsorship malarky.

#SelfHosted #Youtube #SponsorBlock #Jellyfin #TubeSync
https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

GitHub - meeb/tubesync: Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server

Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server - meeb/tubesync

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Mar 3, 2025 at 5:21pmWeb
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 3, 2025

But what I need to do is figure a way of directly supporting the channels that I regularly watch, in a way that doesn't just give money to Google.

#SelfHosted #Youtube #SponsorBlock #Jellyfin

Show threadNinad PundalikMar 3, 2025
@awfulwoman are options like Patreon, or the channel's merch store the only way to support in such cases?
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 3, 2025
@ni_nad anything where I can subscribe to the good stuff!
Show threadFennixMar 3, 2025

@ni_nad @awfulwoman
Some channels exist on Nebula, and usually the versions there have the sponsor segments cut out.

I don't know the full details but I wonder if a similar thing exists to pull the nebula feed into Jellyfin...

Show threadNinad PundalikMar 4, 2025
@fennix @awfulwoman aha, thanks! Need to see if Nebula is set up well to handle international recurring payments. I'm in India and our central bank has restrictions around these payments (which are designed for the consumer's benefit) that end up breaking international payments often
Show threadJacob BurleyMar 3, 2025
@awfulwoman this looks super neat - can you break out subs per-Jellyfin user? 👀
Show threadCharlie O’HaraMar 3, 2025
@jc0b Not directly, but I reckon you could definitely work around it by having multiple TubeSync instances downloading subs and sending them to different collections. Then you can assign Jellyfin user permissions to those collections.
Show threadJacob BurleyMar 3, 2025
@awfulwoman sounds like an idea, thanks! I’d only need two, just don’t want to swamp my partner with my own YouTube preferences 😅