This app was mentioned in 7 comments, with an average of 1.43 upvotes
I just use BSPlayer (paid|free) if I want to play YT videos with extra features. Go in through the YouTube app and "Share" them to BSPlayer. You can do (custom, non-Oreo) PiP, volume over 100%, gesture controls, and there're no YouTube ads.
I expect other video players out there do the same. That's just the one I use.
Give BSPlayer a try It's a great video player that runs practically everything and it just so happens to be able to play videos in the background. Just click the share button in the YouTube app or long press a video link to play, BG playback works while using other apps as well as with the display turned off.
BS Player has chromecast support for more than a year now... I'm not sure about free version so here's the link for paid one; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.full
What I'm looking for is a player that can play files that are located on a shared drive on my LAN.
The only one I've found is BS Player.
It is primarily a video player, but it can do music too.
I find it has some odd behaviours when dealing with doing shuffle mode on a bunch of MP3s, though.
Any simple players that can do this better?
Request : BS Player pro version 1.30.195
Offical website link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsplayer.bspandroid.full
Kindly unlock the license for patched. :)