Tartube

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- Some MS Windows users, especially on Windows 10, report that they can't run
Tartube at all. In an effort to get around this, the installer has been
redesigned. The way Tartube communicates with youtube-dl on MS Windows has
been changed. youtube-dl update operations should now work flawlessly.
Please report any further problems at our GitHub page; this might be a fix
to issue 10
- Users on Linux/*BSD can now run Tartube directly from the command line, after
installing it (see the README)
- Occasionally, videos were downloaded (or checked) successfully, but Tartube
failed to notice them. This issue should now be fixed
- When checking videos/channels/playlists/folders, only new videos will now
appear in the Results List (in the Progress tab)
- The toolbar has been redesigned. MS Windows users won't see labels at all
(so everything should fit). Users on all system can turn labels on or off.
Tooltips have been added to the buttons, in case the labels are turned off
- Fixed yet another problem with button to switch the location of Tartube's
data folder (6)
- Tartube no longer requires the python 'validators' module
- Tartube can now ignore YouTube copyright messages, and also 'Child process
exited with non-zero code' messages, meaning that they won't appear in
Tartube's Errors/Warnings tab. (They are not ignored by default)
- Tartube now applies a 60-second timeout when youtube-dl tries to download
a video's metadata (since youtube-dl uses a 10-minute timeout); this can be
turned off, if required (9)
- Fixed some more issues with the way videos are sorted in the Video Catalogue
(it's still not 100%)
- Users can no longer type in comboboxes
- Tartube now spots when the user adds a channel or playlist URL as a video;
only the first video in the channel/playlist is now downloaded
- You can no longer remove download options from a media data object when the
download options edit window is still open
- When you update youtube-dl, Tartube will now tell you which youtube-dl
version is installed. Tartube will no longer claim the update operation
fails if you're using pip (rather than pip3)

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- On MS Windows, the fix from v0.4.0 to prevent a crash whenever the user tries
to change the location of Tartube's data directory, did not work. Fixed it
again (6), and added some dialogue window to make it clearer to the user
what is going on
- Fixed problems with dragging-and-dropping (or otherwise moving) a channel,
playlist or folder to a new location (such as another folder). The videos
were not updated with their new location. The new code will fix any
problems in the Tartube database
- Fixed numerous problems with the code that sorts videos into the right order,
and which displays videos in the Video Catalogue in the right order
- The 'Switch' button no longer resets the page back to the first one
- When switching between channels/playlists/folders, scrollbars are
automatically moved back to the top
- In the toolbar beneath the Video Catalogue, there are two new buttons for
scrolling to the top or bottom of the visible page. Users can now select
a different page just by typing the page number and pressing RETURN. The
same applies to the page size - there is no button to click any more, just
type the new size and press RETURN
- Fixed several problems which were still preventing selection of different
video formats (3)
- Added bare-bones aac, m4a, mp3, ogg and wav as recognised video formats
- A set of download options can now be completely reset to their default values
- The 'Add Videos' dialogue window, and some others, don't behave well when the
user resizes them. Fixed (4)
- Added a small folder icon to the the 'Add Videos' dialogue window, and
others, so the user is less likely to forget to set a custom location
- In the 'Add Videos' dialogue window, and others, URLs are now tidied up a
bit because being copied from the clipboard, eliminating leading/trailing
whitespace and empty lines
- The Gtk test window, available for MS Windows after using the installer,
now contains some text (to make it clear that the window is working as
intended)

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- Drastic improvements to overall performance. Download operations are now much
smoother. You should notice a much lighter burden on your machine's CPU
- The graphics libraries struggled to draw lists containing hundreds (or
thousands!) of videos, so the Video Catalogue has been split into pages. It
typically takes less then a second to show the 'All Videos' folder, if it
contains hundreds of videos, rather than several minutes
- If you just want to find new videos, you can now tell Tartube to stop
checking/downloading channels/playlists as soon as notifications of videos
you've already checked/downloaded start arriving. This works well on
YouTube, which sends the newest videos first, but might not work well on
all websites. The new functionality is turned off by default. Click
'Edit > System preferences > Performance > Time-saving preferences' to turn
it on
- The installer for 32-bit MS Windows failed under all circumstances. Applied a
fix
- On MS Windows, the uninstaller was invisible. It can now be executed from the
Start Menu
- On MS Windows, fixed a crash whenever the user tried to changed the location
of Tartube's data directory (6)
- Fixed some problems with the 'Add videos' dialogue window, which tried to add
all sorts of invalid URLs (such as lines containing only empty space). The
other 'Add' dialogue windows were also fixed
- A limit to the length of a channel/playlist/folder name now applies
- Leading/trailing whitespace is now removed from URLs and channel/playlist/
folder names
- The 'Add videos' dialogue window now checks for duplicate URLs, and when
found, doesn't add them to the database
- Fixed various problems caused by deleting a video/channel/playlist/folder
(such as the numbers visible in the Video Index). If you've been using an
earlier version of Tartube, any such problems with the database will be
automatically repaired for you (8)
- Videos which haven't actually been downloaded can now be deleted from the
database by right-clicking them
- Added new options for making backups of the Tartube database file, in case it
becomes corrupted. See the settings in
'Edit > System preferences... > Backups'
- The 'Switch' button now switches between four 'skins' (instead of the
previous two). Two of them show the name of a video's parent channel/
playlist/folder; the other two show the video's description
- Fixed incorrect formatting in the DASH and 3D file formats (3)

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- Tartube will now run on MS Windows
- Fixed some more crashes
- Fixed some issues with video descriptions containing quotes and ampersand
characters

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- Corrected old Python2 code to work on Python3
- Greatly expanded the README file
- Fixed the constant crashes
- Fixed some Gtk problems (but others remain unfixed)
- Fixed downloads for users who haven't installed FFmpeg, and for sites that
don't support FFmpeg
- Several other minor tweaks/fixes

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- This is the first public release of Tartube