Newpipe: Long (>100 items) youtube playlists won't load beyond the 100th item

[LunaDragofelis]

Checklist

• [x] I am using the latest version - 0.20.2
• [x] I checked, but didn't find any duplicates (open OR closed) of this issue in the repo.
• [x] I have read the contribution guidelines given at https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/HEAD/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• [x] This issue contains only one bug. I will open one issue for every bug report I want to file.

Steps to reproduce the bug

Method A

1. Open any youtube playlist that is longer than 100 items
2. Scroll to the bottom of the playlist view

Method B

1. same as method A
2. use the "play in background" feature
3. tap on the notification to open the background play queue
4. scroll to the bottom of the queue view

Actual behaviour

NewPipe doesn't load the playlist items beyond the 100th, preventing access to them from NewPipe. It doesn't even show the spinning circle.

Expected behavior

NewPipe would previously (until yesterday, but already unreliably for a while) show the spinning circle for a few seconds, then show more items from the playlist

Device info

• Android version/Custom ROM version: Android 10
• Device model: Motorola moto g7 play

[Drakim42]

This bug started a few hours ago for me, and affects every Youtube playlist. There were no signs of it before today.

LineageOS 14.1
Nvidia Shield K1

[opusforlife2]

Which service is this? Youtube? Soundcloud?

[Drakim42]

Youtube. (Edited my previous post with the missing info)

[opusforlife2]

Do other services work?

[Drakim42]

Soundcloud only loads 10 items at a time and displays a constant loading animation at the bottom. The other services seem to be working.

[opusforlife2]

Alright. Let's keep this one for Youtube.

[PrSunflower]

Same bug for me with NewPipe 0.20.2 on Nokia 7.2. Everything worked fine with the previous version, the bug appeared on the newer version (it was released to fix a major bug that prevented every video from playing).

[opusforlife2]

@PrSunflower Could you reinstall 0.20.1 and confirm this bug doesn't exist there?

[Drakim42]

The bug is still there after reinstalling every version going back to 0.19.7. That version never had this problem for me, but now it does.

(Possible coincidence)
YouTube Vanced started having problems playlist-wise right before I encountered NewPipe's playlist bug.

[PrSunflower]

@PrSunflower Could you reinstall 0.20.1 and confirm this bug doesn't exist there?

Hi @opusforlife2 , thank you for replying. I just did and surprisingly long playlists still don't load 😮

I tried NewPipe 0.20.0 and 0.19.8, the bug happens too! I swear I didn't have this problem before, could it be my phone (Nokia 7.2) which received an update and now blocks NewPipe from loading long playlists?

[opusforlife2]

Or it could just be that Youtube changed something. Newpipe's playlist loading code hasn't changed for several versions, so this is unlikely to be a regression. We'll just have to see if we can find what changed and how to adapt to it.

[FireMasterK]

I can replicate this, let me know what's needed to debug further.

[FireMasterK]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe youtube-dl has a fix for this: https://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl/pull/32/commits/ba51eec692a33a977b0a0fab1f4af5eb3646f7b0

[CrazyCodeTM]

Same problem here version 0.20.2 android 8.1.0 Moto G4 Plus
Is the bug still being resolved?