Tubidy News – Tubidy allows you to stream music and video for free. You can find many videos and songs here. Moreover, most of those videos have been encoded into a more convenient format, so you can watch or listen to them without any problem, like lagging or buffering. As a popular service, it is not surprising that Tubidy keeps developing. Here, we have several latest Tubidy News and updates for you who use this service a lot.
Change of Website Address
The first changes you can find are the website address of Tubidy. You can still visit its old address. But, antivirus has blacklisted them. So, it might give you an uncomfortable feeling when you use Tubidy’s service on its old website.
The new website of Tubidy is Tubidy.org.za. This new address is safe and not blacklisted by antivirus. You can use your account on this new website.
The Changes in Tubidy Features
What kind of changes on Tubidy features? There are many of them. For example:
- Easy to Use
Compared to similar services, we can say that Tubidy is easy to use. The old one had a bit of a complicated interface. But, the new website, especially the app, has a better interface design, which allows you to find the function or option you want to use without hassle. Even if you use this service for the first time, you won’t get any problems with its features. Furthermore, Tubidy also provides detailed instructions on how to use its feature.
- No More Downloading Feature
It might be the biggest change you can find in Tubidy. In the past, we could freely download any indexed video on Tubidy. But, that practice invites debate from many communities and experts about its legality. Mostly, it is because the download feature doesn’t ask permission from the video and song owner. Therefore, many people consider this part as piracy and breaking the copyright law.
The current Tubidy has removed this feature. As mentioned on its Team of Use, now, Tubidy is a Streaming platform. So, you can only watch and listen to the song on this platform. Any activities other than viewing or streaming the content, including permanently downloading the content or redistributing them, are considered against the law and Team of Use of Tubidy. Tubidy encourages its users to contact the video owner for permission if they want to use their content for commercial purposes.
The removal of the download option also solves the problem of legality. It gives Tubidy users a peaceful mind to use its service. You know that your beloved Tubidy service is legal to use.
- The Access to Content
Tubidy also stated in its Team of Use regarding the content access permission. In the past, many people think that Tubidy took the content from various streaming platforms, converted them to a much lighter format, and displayed them on its website. Because of this practice, many people see Tubidy use others’ content without their permission.
However, the latest Tubidy News seems clear out this misunderstanding. As stated in Tubidy’s Terms of Use, this website is only providing a platform where users can access the content of other users. So, this website/service now is a place where you can share, upload, view, and stream videos from its users.
As a user, you also get unlimited storage space. However, to smooth the conversion process, you can only upload videos with a length of up to 16 minutes and a size of up to 100 MB.
Tubidy also stated that the content owner is responsible to protect their content. Even though Tubidy doesn’t provide a download service, other users might use other methods to acquire the video or audio posted on the Tubidy platform. They can even use them without the content owner knowing. So, it is the owner’s responsibility to create countermeasures to protect their content, for example adding a watermark on their video.
- Low Sound Quality
You might also feel that the sound quality of the songs streamed on Tubidy is much lower than the previous one. It is related to the new service Tubidy provides. The “watch and listen only” service doesn’t require too high-quality audio. Therefore, Tubidy converts and uses low-quality audio enough for you to enjoy the song.
- Stricter Control over Content Copyright
The last change we found is Tubidy has much stricter control and limitation on the copyright for its content. It applies to all content that the users upload. If Tubidy detects that content infringes the copyright or stolen content from another streaming platform or owner, Tubidy will delete that content. Furthermore, Tubidy also can terminate the user account that uploads that content.
Thanks to this change, users have more freedom to develop their creativity. More than that, they can upload their content, promote their work through content on Tubidy, and get more fans for their work through this website. It opens more opportunities for all users to shine.
- Technical Changes
Other than service and rule changes, Tubidy also has other changes related to its technical part. For example, here are the details of the codec and encoding for each audio and video format:
- 3GP Video Regular Quality => 3GPP(H.263/AMRNB)
- 3GP Video High Quality => 3GPP(MP4/AAC)
- 3GP Video Parts => 3GPP(H.263/AMRNB)
- 3GP Video Preview => 3GPP(H.263/AMRNB)
- MP4 Video => MP4(H.264/HEv2-AAC)
- MP4 Audio => MP4(HEv2-AAC)
Furthermore, the converted video applies to, especially only for top-watched videos. It requires more time to encode video and audio. So, Tubidy only limits it to the top-watched video to lower the burden on its server.
Conclusion
Even though Tubidy has changed a lot, its status as a free service doesn’t change. No need to pay for membership or such. You might only pay for internet data usage from your internet service provider. Other than that, you can enjoy all contents in Tubidy as much as you want. And that concludes our Tubidy News and the latest update of this online streaming service. We hope this article helps you to enjoy and use the Tubidy service more.