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How To Make YouTube Videos Play Even When Your Screen Is off

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Listening to music on the go has been a very favourite thing for many of us. And our smartphones are our best buddies in this thing which help us in listening to our favourite music. Some of us like playing the already saved and stored music on our devices, while some like to stream music online, and some would like to listen to the music on YouTube. Let us keep aside the first option, as it drains less battery and doesn’t require a network connection. And the second option is also a better choice as we can play music from online streaming apps and websites while our device’s screen is off. Whereas listening to the YouTube videos while your device’s screen is off.

Steps To Follow For Playing YouTube Videos When Screen Is Off

So, stop worrying and start using an app that lets you listen to the music while your screen is off. Follow the steps below to enjoy this amazing and most wanted feature.

Note: This process requires your device to be rooted

  • Download and install the APK file of Screen Backlight Off, you need to enable the unknown sources option in the security settings of your device before installing the APK file
  • It will ask you for root access permission as soon as you open the application, just grant it, and also grant overlay permission
  • Then you can find a notification in your notification panel which will work for you as a toggle using which you can turn off the screen
  • You are now done with setting up the Screen Backlight Off app

Now, you can just simply browse any YouTube video that you wish in YouTube and play it, while it starts playing, just pull the notification panel down and tap on the toggle notification and it will put the entire screen off while playing music/audio from the video.

Learn How To Listen To YouTube Videos In The Background

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YouTube is an online treasure which has full content in it. It has a number of videos which many feel as a treasure for their entertainment. YouTube is one of the many video sharing applications and it is the most popular app as well. But the android application of the YouTube has a huge drawback.  It doesn’t allow the users to continue listening to the audio of the YouTube videos if they turn off the screen.

Playing YouTube Videos In The Background

Many of us would sometimes wish to listen to just the audio while engaging ourselves in some other work but what have you ever thought of making YouTube videos play the audio alone. It is possible and simple to do as well.

Many people think that rooting the android device is the only solution for it, but there is another very lesser known solution which you can make use of if you don’t wish to root your device.

And for that, you should make use of the Firefox browser app on your device. Even though Google Chrome is the most popularly used browser, Firefox browser also holds some excellent features. And especially it can be the best solution for you if you want to play YouTube videos when your screen is off without having to buy any paid app.

It is just very much simpler to do this, just open the browser and search for the YouTube website, then for the video you would like to hear the audio for, then just switch your device’s screen off and you will see the video playing it’s audio in the background, you can listen to them like a podcast.

This is how you can trick this and listen just the audio of the videos on YouTube, but remember this will cost you the same amount of data it costs for playing videos, so use this only when you have sufficient data.

Some Of The Awesome YouTube Tricks That You Must Note

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YouTube, as you all may have know is the most popular video blogging website and has a lot of interesting video content to watch and share and many of us view a lot of videos daily on YouTube. But some simple and useful YouTube tricks, your YouTube experience is going to be superb. Let us first go through some of the keyboard shortcuts that you must note.

While you are watching YouTube videos, here are simple keyboard shortcuts which may save you from boggling with the mouse and allow you to relax leaning back on your coach and watch videos.

YouTube Tricks You Should Note

  • Pressing spacebar will pause the YouTube video, this you may know. But it works only after a click on the window, in such cases ‘K’ key will pause the video without having to touch the mouse.
  • J and L keys help you to rewind and forward the video for 10 seconds respectively.
  • Arrow keys also perform the rewind and forward action but for 5 seconds, that is if you want to rewind very small part, use these keys. Left arrow to rewind and right arrow to forward.
  • Press “F” key to go into full-screen mode.
  • Using the number keys 2,3,4…. You will be taken to 20%, 30%, 40% ….. of the video respectively.
  • Pressing “0” will take you to begin of the video.
  • Pressing Up and Down arrow will increase and decrease the audio by 5%.
  • “M” key will mute/unmute the video.
  • Turning any YouTube video into GIF is actually by simply adding the word ‘gif’ right before the domain name of the video URL. For example, if the video URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY, then your GIF URL will be https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY

So, I hope these simple YouTube tricks will be useful to you at times and you use YouTube like a pro by implementing these tricks.

How To Download YouTube Videos Without Any Extensions Or Tools

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YouTube needs no introduction among the internet users. It is the most popular website for video content. Downloading the audio and video files from the website is the most common chore for the netizens these days. But what many people usually do is they use various other extensions and tools for downloading content from the internet, but here in this article today I am going to show you the simple process of downloading audio and video files, YouTube videos from the internet without the use of any other third party extensions, tools or any other software. So here we go….

Requirements:

  • You should be having a web browser with the network developer tool like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox
  • Internet connection

Downloading audio from YouTube videos:

http://www.theyoump3.com/

The above is the link to the website that can be used to download the MP3 of the video file that you want.

All you have to do is pretty simple, just go to the video page in the YouTube that you would like to download.

Copy the URL of the web page and then just paste it in the box that will available in the website link above.

It will then convert the video instantly showing you the download link. Click on the download link to save it on your PC.

Downloading video from YouTube:

http://en.savefrom.net/

This is the link for downloading videos from YouTube.

All you have to do is just copy the URL link of the webpage of the YouTube video and then paste it into the search box in the above link.

Then you can select the format of the video in which you would like to download it.

Click on the download button to finally download it to your PC.

Using these simple websites, you can download YouTube videos without the hassles of any softwares or any other tools.

How To Watch YouTube Videos Floating Pop-up Window

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YouTube is probably one of our favourite pass times in the recent times. No matter wherever we are, which device we have been using, the YouTube videos can help us in getting out of the boredom. We have seen earlier the various apps, ways to use for getting the YouTube videos played in a floating window in our Android devices, but this time let us see the process to play YouTube videos in a pop-up window in PCs and laptops so that you can be able to work and watch videos simultaneously.

Pop-up Window Using Chrome Extension

There are various different using which you can get the YouTube videos played in a floating window, but we choose to introduce you to this one simple, easy process using the Chrome extension. So, check it out.

As a first step, you need to get the Chrome extension called Floating for YouTube downloaded and installed on your device. It is available in the Chrome webstore, so get it installed.

After the installing and app adding is completed, you will see a small pop-up window and you will see a message in it which says enter the URL, paste the YouTube URL.

Now all you need to do is just browse the video which you wish to watch in the floating window player and copy the URL of that video, then just paste it in the pop-up window. Then it will just start playing the video on the top of the tabs. You can resize it according to your choice, drag it and place it wherever you want according to your convenience.

This chrome extension Floating for YouTube thus allows you to browse the internet, or play games or do any other thing online while you continue to watch videos.

Don’t miss to try.