What's new in myTube Beta 4.0.20.0
Feb 21, 2022
- Updated the app's user agent string
- Started implementing SponsorBlock support (must be enabled in settings)
- Renamed button in "Beta & debug" settings to "Toggle 4.1 design" to indicate its true purpose
- Added natural motion animation to pivot header underline in 4.1 design
- Added thumbnail to system transport controls
- Removed color sampling feature from readable thumbnails due to stability issues
- Updated readable thumbnail layout
- Added blur effect to readable thumbnails (may remove depending on performance)
- Fixed issue where moving the mouse a short distance to seek would be interpreted as a click and play/pause the video
- Fixed issue where subtitle/caption names showed up as "Uknown language"
- [PC & mobile] Fixed issue when using multi-select that caused the first selected item to be ignored
- [PC & mobile] Fixed issue when using multi-select that cause the cancel/confirm buttons to be covered by the mini video player
New in myTube Beta 4.0.19.0 (Dec 16, 2021)
- Fixed resource loading issue that caused startup crash on Xbox
New in myTube Beta 4.0.17.0 (Nov 12, 2021)
- Reverted to classic command bar style on older devices to fix issue where the command bar overflow menu would expand downward instead of upward
New in myTube Beta 4.0.15.0 (Oct 26, 2021)
- myTube 4.0 readable thumbnails now perform the color grading effect on mouse over instead of on load, this should reduce hangs when using this thumbnail
- Replaced tilt animations on click from the readable thumbnails with an offset animation
- Made default thumbnail brush transparent
- Added the ability to set thumbnail brush transparency in custom color schemes
- Adjusted how the app loads adaptive videos
New in myTube Beta 4.0.13.0 (Sep 22, 2021)
- Here's the changelog:
- Added refresh button to playlist page
- Made changes to the layout of the app's XAML resources, so when the UI changes in the future it'll be easy for users to switch back to the old design
- Made changes to how adaptive videos are loaded
New in myTube Beta 4.0.12.0 (Aug 1, 2021)
- Here's the changelog:
- Update to WinUI 2.6
- Improved double tap gesture recognition on the video player on touch devices
- Fixed issue where AppService background audio was activated on launch on non-Xbox platforms
- When the option to allow UWP to handle loading media is enabled, the app will no longer subscribe to the AdaptiveMediaSource.DownloadRequested event, which may improve video loading in some cases
New in myTube Beta 4.0.11.0 (Jun 29, 2021)
- Here's the changelog:
- Fixed launch crash on mobile
- Fixed issue where pressing the system back button would close the player controls instead of navigating back on PC and mobile
New in myTube Beta 4.0.10.0 (Jun 28, 2021)
- Here's the changelog:
- Fixed playback options
- Created a new subtitles picker flyout
- Added the ability to customize the look of subtitles (click the settings button on the subtitles picker)
- Added animations to subtitles
- Adjusted side menu animations when the side menu is centered, such as in tablet mode or on Xbox
- DASH video segment timestamps are obtained more accurately
- The app will attempt to sign in when its window is activated, if it was signed out in the background
- Fixed issue where the account icon in the side menu would be blank after being signed out
- Fixed issue where animated thumbnails would sometimes keep playing after the thumbnail is no longer focused
- Fixed issue where setting the HTML player's playback rate did not work
- [Xbox] Added basic playlist support to AppService background audio
New in myTube Beta 4.0.2.0 (Dec 23, 2020)
- Here's the changelog:
- Reduced the startup delay when animating the video from its position in the video page to the mini player container
- The app will now remember your myTube Pro status, so the myTube Pro icon should no longer be shown at launch before it finishes checking your status
- If you click on the Lifetime purchase after you've already acquired it, the app will let you know that you already own myTube Pro, instead of just refreshing the list of myTube Pro products
- Fix for playback issues
- Fixed issue where search options did not work
New in myTube Beta 4.0.1.0 (Dec 20, 2020)
- Here's the changelog:
- Fixed issue where playlist search didn't work
- Reimplemented channel banners after YouTube removed them from the API
- Added private mode option to settings
- The app will no longer display options to pay for myTube Pro after it has already been acquired
- [Xbox] Fixed issue where audio playback loaded the wrong video
New in myTube Beta 3.1.8 (Feb 23, 2018)
- Fixed issue where pressing the previous button in the OS media controls might go to the previous song, rather than restarting the current song
- Fixed issue where the app would crash while changing the thumbnail during background audio playback or casting
- Fixed issue where videos would always render with a MediaPlayerElement when ICompositionSurface was selected in settings
- (PC/Mobile) Fixed bug where the video page pivot header would appear white on the light theme
- (PC/Mobile) Fixed bug where thumbnail wouldn't appear in-app while using DLNA casting
- (PC/Mobile) DLNA device search time increased from 7 seconds to 15 seconds
- (Xbox) Fixed issue where search page would automatically search on navigation, with nothing entered into the text box
- (Xbox) Added support for the rewind and fast forward buttons on the Xbox One media remote
- (Xbox) Suggestions while tyyping on search page
New in myTube Beta 3.1.1 Beta (Aug 10, 2017)
- Enabled data caching in order to reduce API usage
- Fixed recommended video list
- Fixed issue where bookmarked playlists may not work on the second load
- Added views to channel info
- (PC/Mobile) Fixed live tile loading issues
- (PC/Mobile) Fixed settings popup visuals when enabling blur effects
- (PC/Mobile) Added button to view browser on watch later page
- (PC) Fixed header in small windows on video page
New in myTube Beta 3.0.8 Beta (Jul 7, 2017)
- The changelog now appears in the same dialog as dev messages, and can be copy/pasted from
- The changelog can now be commented on, and will appear in the list of dev messages
- Infinite subscriptions scrolling
- Reduced memory usage when checking file sizes for downloading (fixes crash) Added button to exit compact overlay
- Default channel notification limit increased to 20
- Fully implemented Patreon login
- Added ability to log out of Patreon account
- Added unlimited channel notifications for Patrons ($10+)
- Fixed issue where variable playback rate wasn't available on build 10586 devices Fixed User-Agent bug which sometimes caused videos to not load correctly
- (Mobile) Fixed issue where the video stop button would sometimes be difficult to hit in landscape mode
- (PC) Experimenting with reveal lighting on some elements
New in myTube Beta 3.0.6 Beta (Jun 14, 2017)
- Work around for API quota issues
- Won't run the live tile background task if the tile is not pinned
New in myTube Beta 3.0.5 Beta (Jun 9, 2017)
- Implemented dialog to prevent playback on data connections
- Hides mouse cursor in fullscreen
- Made it easier to swipe through settings
- Added option to separate myTube and YouTube history
New in myTube Beta 3.0.4 Beta (Jun 8, 2017)
- Less aggressive synching of audio and video in adaptive videos
- Slower update timer for player controls
- Fixed alignment of like/dislike buttons on smaller screens
- Won't show error message for failed video in a playlist
- Added last background audio log to settings (build 10586 and Xbox)
- Moved all background tasks code into a single unified background task (PC/Mobile) Improved share target stability
- (PC/Mobile) Added refresh button to "Watch this" section
- (PC/Mobile) Added save/delete to context menu
- (PC/Mobile) Made multi-select context menu icon the normal size
- (PC/Mobile) Added "Copy link" context menu item
- (PC) Alt + Enter or F to enter fullscreen
- (PC) Comma/fullstop will skip forward or backward by one frame
- (PC) Pressing space will no longer click the currently focused button
- (PC) Added volume control to the HTML5 player
New in myTube Beta 2.9.92.0 Beta (May 4, 2017)
- Increased touch target size for comment rating controls
- Added "view channel" context menu item
- (PC/Mobile) Added DLNA casting
- (PC/Mobile) Added casting button to video title shade
- (PC/Mobile) Worked around issue where UWP would automatically focus on the search bar, causing the keyboard to come up when not needed
New in myTube Beta 2.9.91.0 Beta (May 4, 2017)
- Added comment threads
- Added ability to reply to comments
- Implemented share target
- Added option to use official YouTube HTML5 player
- (PC) Added volume control
- (PC/Mobile) Added feedback hub option to account app bar
- (Xbox) Multi-process background audio disabled by default
New in myTube Beta 2.9.90.0 Beta (Apr 26, 2017)
- Added ability to create new playlists
- Added ability to change playback speed
- Fixed issue where suggested videos were doubled
- (PC) Added Window backdrop blur on desktop
- (PC/Mobile) Added playlist sorting
- (PC/Mobile) You can now pin the "Watch this" section, channels and playlists (PC/Mobile) Main tile will now show subscriptions
- (Xbox) Added inertia to 360 video camera control
- (Xbox) Added option to choose type of background audio
New in myTube Beta 2.9.85.0 Beta (Mar 23, 2017)
- Fixed playback issue for some videos
- The on-screen keyboard will no longer popup every time you navigate after searching once
- Fixed issue where background audio task didn't get the correct playlist repeat mode, and wouldn't auto-play playlists
- (PC & mobile) Donation button moved to bottom of screen
- (Xbox) Switches to background audio task to avoid running out of memory in the background
- (Xbox) Added ability to view subscribed channels
- (Xbox) Moved Liked, Watch later and Playlists to Library submenu
- (Xbox) Moving all the way to the left or right of a pivot (tabbed) control will automatically tab to the next page
New in myTube Beta 2.9.82.0 Beta (Mar 8, 2017)
- Removed background memory saving process as it's not yet finished and made the app unusable whenever it was restored from the baclground.
New in myTube Beta 2.9.81.0 Beta (Mar 8, 2017)
- Implemented underlying context menu item collection infrastructure
- Started implementing context menu UI (right click on PC, press and hold with touch, menu button on controller)
New in myTube Beta 2.9.80.0 Beta (Mar 8, 2017)
- Added ability to add videos to playlists
- Added a custom directional navigation algorighm to replace the built in UWP one (when using keyboard or controller d-pad)
- Fixed bug which caused slow performance when scrolling down large lists (PC/Mobile) Added ability to clear myTube watch history
- (Xbox) Added search page
- (Xbox) Updated video thumbnail design
- (Xbox) It's now possible to click on your channel from the account flyout
- (Xbox) Fixed issue where clicking on a video that just finished playing would lead to a blank screen
New in myTube Beta 2.7.0.10 Beta (Jan 30, 2017)
- Added improved download management code from myTube 3.0 to myTube 2.x
New in myTube Beta 2.9.55.0 Beta (Dec 7, 2016)
- Updated channel page design
- Fixes an issue where the video details would take a while to appear on the video page
- Added position animations for the status icon on video lists
- You can now sign by tapping the status icon on video lists (if that list requires you to sign in)
New in myTube Beta 2.9.50.0 Beta (Nov 3, 2016)
- Fixes a bug that may cause the notifications background task to not run - Casting to another Windows device running myTube 3.0 (both devices need the latest update, desktop, laptop or tablet)
New in myTube Beta 2.9.40.0 Beta (Sep 12, 2016)
- Mini version of player controls implemented on mobile and desktop (tablet mode, touch-capable devices only)
- Changed the colorization of the blur behind the player controls
- Made it easier to open the Action Center on mobile without seeking the video
- Improved reliability of video and audio playback in the Anniversary Update
- System media controls (controls on the volume panel) made more reliable in the Anniversary Update
- Fixed a layout bug that led to crashing on the Surface Pro 3
- Fixed a bug where the settings would sometimes be unclickable
- Fixed a bug with loading related videos
New in myTube Beta 2.9.35.0 Beta (Aug 10, 2016)
- Redstone support
- Started implementing background audio
- Saves space on mobile devices by hiding header bar on video page
- Saves space in landscape mode by hiding the header bar
- New color scheme for the player controls
- On Redstone, the player controls are now translucent and blur the video behind them
- Added color scheme selection (not yet complete)
- Started working on Chromecast and DIAL support
- Started working on remote system casting (Casting to other Windows devices running myTube)
- Changed Xbox/TV Mode style
- TV Mode now automatically goes fullscreen
- Comment control no longer focusable or clickable
- Able to post comments
- The app should now keep you signed into YouTube for more than 60 minutes
- Moving your finger quickly will seek at a faster rate
New in myTube Beta 2.7.0.2 Beta (Aug 10, 2016)
- Fixes audio playback issue