Add Enqueue button in "Always Ask" Share Menu

[MD77MD]

Checklist

• I checked, but didn't find any duplicates (open OR closed) of this issue in the repo.
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• This issue contains only one feature request. I will open one issue for every feature I want to request.

Describe the feature you want

Until newPipe 0.20.2, while playing a video in background or pop-up mode, sharing another video from others apps to newPipe would enqueue them directly. However this is changing in the upcoming release because it was determined to be bad UX #4562. therefor I am raising this issue to discuss an alternative for it.

A direct quote from developer:

When sharing a video to NewPipe and a play button is pressed, replace the current queue instead of enqueueing. Enqueueing can still be achieved opening info and then enqueueing, but enqueueing directly was bad UX since the user would not see what happened.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe it

These are my related conversations with the developer about this issue: #4562 (comment), #4562 (comment)

To summarize: when a video is shared, enqueueing to pop-up or background mode was done directly, however Stypox suggested an alternative to direct enqueueing by shareing video to newPipe, then opening its details from menu, then long pressing enqueue button... however this was a tedious alternative as it would take too much time and effort to do so compared to old method, especially if multiple videos are to be enqueued.. (you can try enqueueing 5 video yourself to see the vast difference).

also when sharing to pop-up or background mode, users actually do not really want video details... they actually just wants the video to be enqueued... if the users indeed wanted video details they would have choosen the first option (video details). ..more so, it results in wasting data for loading the video details page for each video.

Additional context

The alternative for old enqueueing method should be as easy as the old method (enqueueing directly).. it sould avoid wasting to much time and data.

@opusforlife2 suggested when the share menu appears, long pressing on pop-up or background option would enqueue the video ... my suggestion isn't far away from his but more intuitive if that's the right word. Instead of long pressing, a ( + )"plus sign" or something similar is to be added next to both modes on the right.

The work done in #4425 "Replace specific enqueue options with one" could be used to inspire more alternatives.

How will you/everyone benefit from this feature?

Makes life a little bit easier... but seriously, try enqueueing 5 video yourself in both ways to see the vast difference.

[opusforlife2]

We don't need anything so complicated. Just an additional "Enqueue" option in the "Always Ask" menu will be enough. It should only show when a stream is open.

Long pressing inside a menu seems like bad UX, anyway.

[MD77MD]

i did suggest that too

[opusforlife2]

Your title should directly state what you want. Your feature request in one line. Not a description of the situation or what will happen in the future.

[MD77MD]

Your title should directly state what you want. Your feature request in one line. Not a description of the situation or what will happen in the future.

I had hard time describing this, because this problem is not there yet. and in order for newcomers to understand what I'm talking abou i had to build up from scratch .... i think next time I'm just gana pretend it's already there ... building the explanation for the issue was not worth the amount of time i spent.

[opusforlife2]

You can freely explain in your own words in the issue body. The title though has to contain certain keywords so interested users will know they are opening the correct issue.

[vkay94]

I think enqueuing is too specific for this dialog. The point of the dialog is to define a default action which should be run automatically while opening a link outside from NewPipe - that's why there is "Just once" and "Always" ;)

Enqueing like this is coupled to the situation that there's already NewPipe playing a stream, therefore this action wouldn't stand "for its own" like the others do (I hope you understand what I mean :'))

[opusforlife2]

Good point. What if the "Always" button is greyed out if Enqueue is selected?

[opusforlife2]

Or, or, when a user shares a link to Newpipe and another stream is open, we could show a dialogue saying "Stream already playing:

Play now, Enqueue, Cancel".

[s1awek]

Any updates on this?

[MD77MD]

So it seems you can do this with newer versions according to @Stypox, but the steps are awful [1]. First, change your NewPipe default from "Background player" to "Show info". Then, here is what you have to do for each video to be added:

1. Long press link
2. Click Open With NewPipe App
3. Long press Background

Compared to previous:

1. Long press link
2. Click Open With NewPipe App

I will continue to use the old version [2] until this is resolved.

1. #4562 (comment)
2. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.20.2

@89z better yet, you can instal the legacy version 20.2 of newpipe to handle shared links, and normal newpipe (or block adds version) for normal use. this way you can still enjoy the latest version with all its features.

this is what we have to do when no buddy cares to listen anymore 🙁