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MediaDownloader Changelog

What's new in MediaDownloader 4.4.1.0

Apr 19, 2024
  • Added an option to play a sound when the download finishes, you can also specify a custom sound
  • Fixed a small bug with the history re-sorting in the wrong order

New in MediaDownloader 4.4.0.0 (Apr 6, 2024)

  • CHANGES:
  • Added a settings menu
  • Added a QoL feature that skips the download process automatically if the raw file is detected (this is helpful if the user chose an undesired format and wants to change it without redownloading the entire video)
  • Added a migration feature to prevent the loss of user config data when loading from older versions
  • Greatly optimized the queue and history storage systems, it now stores each in a single compressed file
  • Small UI improvements

New in MediaDownloader 4.3.1.0 (Mar 16, 2024)

  • Greatly improved the bootstrapper, it now has a nice GUI that shows progress
  • Improved the update checker
  • Added some config safety features, this will prevent the config manager from breaking if the user inputs a 'ΒΆ' or 'n' (these two characters are used as delimiters in the config manager)

New in MediaDownloader 4.3.0.0 (Oct 2, 2023)

  • CHANGES:
  • Improved the progress bar for the queue system
  • Added a config option to allow only specified urls to be downloaded from
  • Double-clicking the url textbox now navigates to the current url in a browser
  • Fixed minor bugs
  • MediaDownloader Updater v1.1.0
  • Made it run inside a shell window instead of a powershell windows
  • Made it work as a standalone updater

New in MediaDownloader 4.2.3.0 (Sep 22, 2023)

  • Fixed playlist downloader not working with named folders (I broke it for the 2nd time, I swear it's fixed now :) )

New in MediaDownloader 4.2.0.0 (Sep 22, 2023)

  • CHANGES:
  • Added a feature to download playlists (just paste a playlist link and it will auto-detect, or you can specify it manually)
  • Added a feature to automatically choose the output name
  • Improved the trimming system, you can now choose a start timestamp and automatically cut until the end, or vise-versa
  • Added an option to download thumbnails
  • Added a self-updater
  • Added a button to reset settings to default
  • Updated the config system
  • Minor visual changes
  • Fixed minor bugs

New in MediaDownloader 4.1.1.0 (Aug 26, 2023)

  • Fixed history not sorting correctly

New in MediaDownloader 4.1.0.0 (Aug 21, 2023)

  • Added a new format option named mp4 (fast), this option will download videos as fast as possible and disregard all codecs (this is extremely useful for downloading long videos if you plan on just viewing them, some video editors may not accept this format)
  • Minor spelling changes

New in MediaDownloader 4.0.1.0 (Aug 16, 2023)

  • Fixed a bug where downloads could not be started again if the previous one failed.
  • Double-clicking on custom argument text boxes now opens the documentation pages for each redist (forgot to add this).
  • History now sorts in descending order.

New in MediaDownloader 4.0.0.0 (Aug 15, 2023)

  • I completely re-wrote MediaDownloader from the ground-up, I fixed several major issues and greatly optimized parts of the code
  • Added a feature to queue multiple downloads
  • Added a feature that displays previous downloads
  • Added a feature to change the resolution of video downloads
  • Added a feature to change the framerate of video downloads
  • Added a feature to specify custom FFmpeg arguments
  • Added a bootstrapper for downloading yt-dlp/ffmpeg
  • Fixed a bug with downloading from sites that don't have mp4 as their primary codec (you will no longer get errors when downloading from non-YouTube sites)
  • Download names no longer contain numbers in them (they only will if the name is left blank)
  • Fixed the open directory button to work with image sequences
  • Updated the UI
  • New logo/banner

New in MediaDownloader 3.10.0.0 (May 3, 2023)

  • Added more format options (mkv, flac, opus, png/jpg sequences, and audio visualizers. also decided to re-add webm c:)
  • Added an option to customize bitrate settings
  • Fixed a bug that made the path text stay after clearing settings
  • Updated to FFmpeg 6.0

New in MediaDownloader 3.9.0.0 (Apr 28, 2023)

  • Greatly optimized the trimming feature (it was extremely inefficient before, it now trims before doing any other media processing)
  • Greatly improved the gif quality
  • Improved the file selection dialog (it's now less annoying to use)
  • Improved the config system (it's now contained in a single file)
  • Removed the webm format (the format is extremely slow to process with ffmpeg, if you need a webm, there are lots of converters that are faster)
  • Optimized code
  • Updated to yt-dlp 2023.03.04

New in MediaDownloader 3.8.5.0 (Feb 9, 2023)

  • CHANGES:
  • Fixed download fails relating to using certain special characters inside non-rich text boxes
  • Improved tooltip system
  • NOTICE:
  • MediaDownloader.3.8.5.0.zip is the standard download.
  • MediaDownloader_STANDALONE.exe is only for if you are using scoop or something similar! If you are downloading the program directly and normally please download MediaDownloader.3.8.5.0.zip.

New in MediaDownloader 3.8.4.0 (Feb 8, 2023)

  • CHANGES:
  • Fix crash when opening folder location

New in MediaDownloader 3.8.3.0 (Jan 30, 2023)

  • Improved the open path button, it will now highlight the latest download
  • Update to yt-dlp 2023.01.06

New in MediaDownloader 3.8.2.0 (Dec 23, 2022)

  • Fix versioning typo

New in MediaDownloader 3.8.1.1 (Dec 22, 2022)

  • CHANGES:
  • Fix wording
  • Implement "src_extras" (bundling some of my other media repositories inside MediaDownloader)

New in MediaDownloader 3.8.0 (Nov 18, 2022)

  • CHANGES:
  • Added output log options
  • Improved UI
  • Improved the anti-spam feature (improved yt-dlp and ffmpeg detector)
  • Fixed tiny bugs that probably no one noticed

New in MediaDownloader 3.7.1 (Nov 17, 2022)

  • CHANGES:
  • Save Options is now enabled by default
  • Improve UI visuals slightly
  • Made the config files more organized

New in MediaDownloader 3.7.0 (Nov 12, 2022)

  • Added a feature to change the output filename
  • Re-added the option to download a video with custom arguments
  • Improved UI
  • Removed the option to download raw video and audio (those options had a rare chance to create corrupt undeletable files, you can still download raw formats through the yt-dlp arguments section)
  • Optimized code
  • Updated to yt-dlp 2022.11.11
  • Updated to FFmpeg 5.1.2

New in MediaDownloader 3.6.0 (Oct 21, 2022)

  • New option to trim the download within a time range.
  • Added scoop support (thanks to https://github.com/couleurm for setting that up).
  • Removed the option to download a video with custom arguments (I do not think anyone used this feature).
  • Improved the config system for debugging.

New in MediaDownloader 3.5.2 (Oct 12, 2022)

  • Fixed the ugly icon (it was low quality and looked terrible so I re-drew it, it looks very crisp now).
  • Display more information when a redist error occurs.