youtube-dl-wpf

📝 Release Notes

This release introduces an all-new out-of-box experience, adds UI support for cookies and subtitle languages, and includes many other improvements and bug fixes.

💌 Out-of-Box Experience

When you open the app for the first time, a "Get started" dialog will guide you through the setup.

If yt-dlp is already installed in your system PATH, the app will automatically use it and skip the intro.

🚧 Preset Breaking Change

Starting with this release, specifying a container alone (without a format) will pass --merge-output-format <container> instead of -f <container>. This change was necessary to allow --merge-output-format to be used without custom arguments. Unfortunately, this may break your existing user-defined presets. Make sure to check them after upgrading.

Kudos to @astering for reporting this bug in #177!

🔗 Video Link as Command-Line Argument

You can now launch the app with a video link as the first command-line argument, and it will be automatically pre-filled in the UI. (#162)

🍪 First-Class Cookies Support

You can now configure the use of cookie files and the extraction of cookies from browsers directly in the interface. (#218)

🌐 Subtitle Languages

You can now pick which subtitles to download by language. Recently used languages are remembered and are easily accessible in the drop-down menu. (#204)

🕹️ Ease of Use

Ever confused by the buttons being grayed out? Say no more! With this release, the interaction logic around buttons has been greatly improved. You can now even type out a nonexistent download folder and have the app create it for you. (#179)

🪄 General

• The UI is now more responsive to different window sizes.
• The log viewer is now resizable. (#205)
• Added "Show in folder" buttons for easy navigation.
• Improved the folder selection experience.
• Log files can now be enabled in settings.
• Auto-generated subtitles are now properly embedded into the downloaded file. (#201, #203)

📦 Packages

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📝 Release Notes

This is a quick patch release without new features.

• Fixed crash when hitting Enter on the link field (#171).
• Fixed the issue of not being able to remove custom arguments from existing custom presets.
• Loaded custom presets are now correctly sorted from newest to oldest.
• Duplicating a preset will now make sure the new name is unique.

📦 Packages

© 2023 database64128

📝 Release Notes

This is a quick patch release without new features.

• Fixed the issue where settings won't persist between runs if there isn't already a settings file.
• Updated MaterialDesignThemes to fix some minor layout issues.

📦 Packages

© 2023 database64128

📝 Release Notes

This release adds output template history, the ability to select playlist items, and comes with various improvements and fixes to the UI and the logic behind it.

• 📜 Output template history
  • Used output templates are now saved and displayed in a drop-down menu, just like used download paths.
  • Credit to @Iongtimenosee for suggesting this in #166.
• 🔢 Playlist items
  • You can now select items when downloading from a playlist.
  • The syntax can be found in upstream's documentation for --playlist-items.
  • Credit to @amorfiniluigi82 for inspiring this feature in #165.
• 🖼️ UI improvements
  • The window size will now persist between runs, and can be viewed and reset in settings.
  • Some adjustments were made to the layout to better align the elements and make it easier to view the logs.
  • Clearer log messages with shortened timestamps.
  • No more RxUI binding warnings! Credit to @bachig26 and @EDM115 for reminding me of these annoying warnings in #128 and #160.
• 🏗️ General improvements and bug fixes
  • Updated to .NET 7.
  • Refactored log sink to be more efficient.
  • Refactored JSON file helper methods to be more idiomatic.
  • Refactored backend output handling to be more efficient and idiomatic.
  • Fixed the somewhat broken logic of storing used download paths.

📦 Packages

© 2023 database64128