[dre85]

NewPipe is one of the best apps available on Android. The only thing missing for me currently is Android Auto support.

[nvrg]

Very esoteric app, however I think Ymusic needs to be mentioned whenever YT alternatives are brought up. It streams only the MP3 of the video and the UI is cleaner imo - so it's easier to use if you intend to only listen to "podcasts" or music as an alternative to Spotify.

[no-reply]

Don't know about Ymusic as it doesn't seem open source, but seal [0] seems like a good alternative, based on yt-dlp

0: https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

[KAKAN]

There's also ViMusic, which is open source: https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/

[crtasm]

Sounds good. Newpipe can stream audio only too.

[ForkMeOnTinder]

This is just begging the question: surely you don't watch videos while driving? And if you just want the audio, there are music-focused YT apps (ViMusic, or like sibling said, YMusic)

[explorigin]

Newpipe has a built-in "Play in Background" feature that would be awesome while driving. There are tons of podcast-like content videos on YT that would be fine for a commute.

[jcalve]

It works in my car, I have it running in background mode and I just select the media player in the car menu, no Android auto needed.