Hey guys thought I'd just share my experience today. It was really cool! Watch for the darkness to come across at the beginning, then my exposure changes and you can see street lights popping on. The clouds look like sunset in the middle of the day. Listen for confused cicadas too! Totality ends at 3:10 and the effect is gorgeous. Make sure you watch it!!!! That really excited voice is my dad.
To listen while using other apps, switch the player to Picture-in-Picture (PiP) during playback — it keeps playing in a small floating window (the screen stays on).
To listen with the screen fully off, in-browser playback stops by YouTube's design. Open the video in the YouTube app to keep listening where background playback is supported (e.g. with YouTube Premium).
Open in YouTube app