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YoutubeDL-Material v3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-02-21 // about 4 years ago

  • YoutubeDL-Material reaches version 3.0!

    ⚡️ This update brings a ton of new features (many suggested by @UltraTV!) that will enhance your Youtube downloading experience. Most, if not all of these are optional, so no worries if you wan't to skip some of these, you can customize it however you'd like.

    🆕 New features

    • 0️⃣ You can now select a quality level for Youtube videos (audio & video quality), defaulting to max quality
    • Youtube search functionality added, using the Youtube Data API. You need to generate an API key to use this feature, and you can find details about doing so here.
    • 👀 Playlist support added. For viewing playlists, a new player has been added. See next feature for more details.
    • 🆕 New video/audio player added with playlist support allowing for easy in-app streaming of the downloaded content. New "favorite" button to save playlists and "save" button to download the playlist/single video
    • In download-only mode with the file manager disabled, downloaded files are now automatically deleted
    • 💅 The UI & colors have been updated to give YTDL-Material a unique and consistent style
    • Themes, including dark mode! Enable or disable in the config, and toggle between themes in the top toolbar

    ⚡️ Minor updates

    • ⚡️ Updated UI of the home page to be more responsive. Progress bar and file cards in particular were fixed for smaller devices
    • Audio-only checkbox state now persists between page reloads
    • Thumbnails now load dynamically to reduce webpage loading times
    • Routing added to separate the home page from the media player
    • ⚡️ youtube-dl node.js version updated
    • ⚡️ youtube-dl.exe Windows binary updated

    🐛 Bug fixes

    • 🐛 Bug fixed where video/audio files that were downloaded after streamed didn't include a file extension
    • 🐛 Bug fixed where entering a stream and exiting back to the main app prevented download new videos

    Known issues

    • Downloading large playlists yields inconsistent results. Sometimes the playlists fail to download (I believe caused by a missing video), and sometimes it takes downloads to complete
    • 💻 On legacy browsers (e.g. IE 11), URL length is limited to just 2083 characters. This will limit playlists to be of length 20 or less on legacy browsers. For browsers like Chrome, this isn't an issue as the limit is ~32k characters (translating to a playlist size limit of ~400 or more)