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Media Downloader Changelog

What's new in Media Downloader 4.6.0

May 3, 2024
  • [Windows]:
  • Update bundled ffmpeg to version 7. Unistall first Media Downloader before updating to this version because some ffmpeg files are named differently causing older files to not be removed.
  • [All]:
  • Add config only for now options to show desktop notification when a download is complete. To get a desktop notification when a download is complete, add option "DesktopNotifyOnDownloadComplete=true" to the config file. To get a desktop notification when all downloads complete, add option "DesktopNotifyOnAllDownloadComplete" to the config file.
  • Add support for "--playlist-reverse" yt-dlp option. Media Downloader need to simulate yt-dlp playlist options because it manages the playlist itself.

New in Media Downloader 4.5.0 (Apr 1, 2024)

  • Support internal downloading and updating svtplay.
  • "Show media Options" menu now has a context menu with a list of video players you can use for streaming a media instead of downloading it.
  • Its now possible to select random entries in batch and playlist downloader tabs and batch download only those selected.

New in Media Downloader 4.4.0 (Mar 4, 2024)

  • Fix a bug that caused Media Downloader to not show progress report when file names contained invalid
  • json character
  • All]
  • Add a boolean config only option named "DeleteFilesOnCanceledDownload" to delete temporary files
  • when download is cancelled
  • Add a file size colum in "media options" table to easily show media file sizes
  • Now buildable with Qt6. Pass "-DBUILD_WITH_QT6=TRUE" option to cmake to build for Qt6

New in Media Downloader 4.3.1 (Feb 1, 2024)

  • Hot fix release so just repeating changelon for version 4.3.0.

New in Media Downloader 4.3.0 (Feb 1, 2024)

  • Automatic updates of Media Downloader can now be configured to track git updates. Look for option named "WindowsUpdateChannel" in the config file and change its value to "git" to start monitoring git channel. Change the value back to "release" to go back to monitoring release channel.
  • Fix a bug that causes a crash when trying to be clever with certain user provided yt-dlp options.

New in Media Downloader 4.2.0 (Jan 2, 2024)

  • [Windows]:
  • Fix a bug that caused older version of ffmpeg to be used when user install newer version of MD that uses newer version of ffmpeg without first unistalling older version of MD that uses older version of ffmpeg.
  • [All]:
  • Add ability to show entries in the library tab in various orders.
  • Add ability to filter and sort media list to easily choose which ones to download.
  • Rework UI options that control checking for updates and autodownloads at startup.

New in Media Downloader 4.1.0 (Dec 1, 2023)

  • [Windows]:
  • All Windows users are required to manually update to at least version 4.0.0 and then start relying on automatic updates from that version going forward.
  • [All]:
  • Various changes and improvements.

New in Media Downloader 4.0.0 (Nov 2, 2023)

  • Update bundled version of ffmpeg to version 6.0.
  • Fix a problem that caused the UI to hang when reading clipboard data.
  • App title bar is now black when using dark theme.
  • Respect an option to save not downloaded entries when the apps quits unexpectedly.

New in Media Downloader 3.4.0 (Oct 1, 2023)

  • Add a config option to auto hide downloaded entries in batch and playlist downloader tabs.
  • Add a "proxy" sub tab in a configure tab to set proxy settings.
  • Default to h264 video codec instead of yt-dlp's vp9 when downloading youtube videos.
  • Update Italian translations.

New in Media Downloader 3.3.0 (Aug 1, 2023)

  • [Windows]:
  • Fix a problem that caused installed version to keep on updating updated version of Media Downloader and other engines.
  • [All]:
  • Update Chinese translations.
  • Update Russian translations.
  • Update Italian translations.
  • Fix problems in basic downloader tab.
  • Various changes and improvements.

New in Media Downloader 3.2.1 (Jun 30, 2023)

  • Changelog:
  • [All]
  • Only show yt-dlp output we care about in the log window.
  • [Non Windows]
  • Do not auto update media downloader because it works for windows only.

New in Media Downloader 3.2.0 (Jun 25, 2023)

  • Update to make it compatible with yt-dlp version 2023.06.22.

New in Media Downloader 3.1.0 (Apr 4, 2023)

  • Add Dutch(Netherlands) translations.
  • Fix a bug that was caused by lux backend changing names of its binaries.

New in Media Downloader 3.0.0 (Apr 2, 2023)

  • Windows:
  • It is now possible for the app to update itself.
  • All:
  • yt-dlp now works as expected and it shows downloading media size instead of "NA".

New in Media Downloader 2.9.0 (Mar 2, 2023)

  • Add Portuguese(Brazilian) translations.
  • Make entry table in the playlist tab larger after it is populated.
  • Required minimum version of yt-dlp is 2023.01.06.
  • Its now possible to cancel populating library tab.

New in Media Downloader 2.7.0 (Nov 10, 2022)

  • Add German translations.
  • Add a GUI option to check for Media Downloader update on startup.
  • Add a GUI option to download a section of a media in batch downloader tab.
  • Update other langauge translations.

New in Media Downloader 2.6.0 (Oct 1, 2022)

  • [Windows]:
  • Bundle wget 1.21.3.
  • [All]:
  • Add GUI options in playlist downloader tab to enable/disable internal archive file and to clear it.
  • Fix a bug that prevented downloading of urls from a file if the file use "rn" as line separator.
  • Add ability to have multiple profiles for downloading options.

New in Media Downloader 2.5.0 (Aug 3, 2022)

  • Windows:
  • Bundle python 3.8.10.
  • Replace bundled 7zip with bsdtar.
  • All:
  • Add Swedish language.
  • Update other langauge translations.
  • Add a button in the configure tab to make it easy to reach a folder where binaries are located.
  • Automatically download and manage folder based you-get executable.