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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
This :)

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ZhekaJ:
Hi! When you planning to add download queue manager ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Animouse31:
I wonder how the downloaded audio quality in this app?

I usually use YouTube Downloader to download mp3 from YouTube. But the sound quality is not as good as mp3fiber.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
I'm still very limited in time to spend developing and maintaining this application.

I can't give out ETAs and I don't think it'll arrive soon.

Thanks,
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
YouTube doesn't provide MP3.

Downloaders that gives out MP3 are actually encoding the audio, which causes quality degradation.

arkTube doesn't re-encode the audio and stores the exactly the same audio data that YouTube provides.

Audio with the highest bitrate is always downloaded, from the audio codec you chose.

If you want the highest audio quality possible, choose Opus codec.

Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
After having the issue with the donation app not being recognized for some time I finally cleared the app data, now the license verification works again, donation features are again available...

(uninstall/reinstall the donation app didn't make a difference)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Manya1999:
I was using a cracked older version of this app provided by a friend for some days.After a few days of use,I realized how good this app is and I uninstalled the cracked version apps and installed the real apk from your website and purchased donation package from google play store.Sorry for using cracked for few days.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sconny:
What did you do exactly? Donation package doesnt Work after updating
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
He mentions in the post you quoted what he did?

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Settings-> Apps-> arkTube-> Storage-> clear app data
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Seems like we finally have a option to abort the downloads if wanted, since the last update (not sure if arkTube 7.0 or 7.1) but I'm definitely able to cancel downloads at will by clicking on the download notification - this wasn't possible on earlier versions...

[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] thank you!

(I attached a screenshot, it's in German but should be sufficient to get an idea of what I mean)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Actually I'm certain this was possible for a long time, just not very reliable. Most of the times the Action wouldn't stop the Download.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Rixil 1:
IDK it it's me ,but arktube always stops at 100% and doesn't merge the album art and the metadata
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Really? Never saw it before exept on Samsung Experience devices like the s8... And it's working reliable so far, at least for the few times I actually used it
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lakid06:
After updating to 7.0.1 not seeing videos option

Hello I just updated to the newest version but now when I select share the only option from arktube is audio. I no longer see video as an option. I tried using stock youtube and vanced youtube. Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix?

Thanks

Using a note 8 on At&t
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
Look for this [emoji846]

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I remember using it a few times on my old Nexus 6P but it wasn't very reliable. Great that arter could fix this :)

It's by far the best YT Downloader available I would say. Makes me even more sad to see that so much are using cracked Files :/
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Istvan_86:
I have the same problem and also I can´t see anything in your answer to solve the problem xDD. What can we do?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
The attached shows the icon to download the video. ;)

DOH!! [emoji23]

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Istvan_86:
OMFG!!! All ok now and sorry but at least for me yout post wans´t enough clear :p
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
last arktube version downloads wrong metadata.

Here are 2 examples: 1 song is Kurupt - We Can Freak It (it says Crepin f question), 2 song is Bishop Lamont - Feel on It (Crooked I presents).
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] boatswain_lok:
Same here with stock s8+ @ g55fxxu3crgh, youtube ver 13.37.52

5 min edit: I am a moron. Download icon has changed. Now I understand. It was a tough one.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] yeetmaster:
unable to download videos on arktube

hello, I am running arktube premium and have loved using it so far. however, recently the download option in the share tab has disappeared and i can only download audio. please help!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=77621441

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Lol, I don't know but this is getting hilarious. Are people really that unobservant that if you change the Icon they won't find it anymore?

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Kapiljhajhria:
Downloads still gets stuck, even after disabling battery optimization. Locking it in recent..

And there is no option to restart it. Just cancel.

Specially for playlist.

I tried videoder app and it handles errors very well. Even gives option to resume or restart.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sieem:
Hi arter, thank you for the icon change in the share menu. Never pressed a wrong one since. I've a feature request that I think hopefully doesn't take too much to implement but could be very handy to have:

Could you give us the choice of selecting two auto resolutions, one when using WiFi and one when using LTE? That way I still can download video's efficiently when I've strong LTE connection but that it doesn't use as much data then when I've WiFi. And that I don't have to change it back and forth every time I want to download in a lower resolution because of LTE.

You could make it the same as with the audio, when it's not specified for LTE, it uses the same resolution as WiFi. That way it stays compatible with the settings users put in aleady.

Thank you for this great app, especially since I've Poco F1, now it downloads super fast and never sticks anymore.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] m00h:
Short question:

is there any way to tell arkTube not to create the ".nomedia" file everytime it downloads a video in the chosen default directory?

That prevents the MX Player to show the videos in the list. I delete the .nomedia file, but it gets recreated again after the next download.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] StardustGeass:
Hmm... I think it is not created by arktube itself? When I use it, I never found arktube creating a no media file..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] m00h:
That is interesting. In that case I wonder where it comes from every time.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
I'm using arktube for a while, but now I'm getting "download failed" error. Help me[emoji26]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Demecion:
After today's YouTube app update, video download icon not there anymore, only audio
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
Still have this problem, did someone have same problem like me? It's maybe weird, but i preffer youtube song metadata.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cashflow67:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] Same here. It gives download failed error
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Pinoykillaz:
Any updates?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
If you have problems: No Logs - no help.

Also, it's forbidden to ask for ETA/Updates, you should read the rules.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] markokrstic0507:
I'm getting download failed also...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] .::Alien::.:
Same problem here getting download failed both for video as well as audio.

It has something to do with changes on YouTube side. YouTube Vanced is also effected by the recent YouTube changes.

Place update with a fix if possible!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] -Deco-:
arter97 is aware of the issue, he is releasing an updated version soon.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
Yep, 2 days ago i had like 50% success chance of download. Today it is 0% chance to download video. I'll be waiting for the update.

Also this is not just arktube. I tried to use a lot of online conveters, and they refuse to work aswell.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] .::Alien::.:
Internet download manager on Windows PC is able to download all the YouTube videos as usual without any problems whatsoever. Strangely it's a previous build of Internet Download manager released before the changes implemented by YouTube. Almost all YouTube downloaders as well as YouTube Vanced is effected by recent changes from YouTube side but Internet download manager is completely unaffected and working perfectly.

I tried it on more than 40 videos, working like a charm.

May be this information is useful to the developer in pinpointing the changes needed!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
That's an extremely dumb thing for a developer to do on a downloader app.

That's obviously not due to arkTube.

Something else on your phone is doing it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
arkTube 7.1 is released, which incorporates youtube-dl changes that fixes recent download breakages.

Please note that the Donation Package needs to be updated to 4.2.

(Also note that Donation Package 4.2 will cause previous versions of arkTube to crash.)

7.1

Fixed an error causing some videos to be shown as unsupported

youtube-dl engine updated to 2018.11.07

ffmpeg updated to 4.0.3

Python updated to 3.7.1 and be much lighter

OpenSSL updated to 1.1.1

c-ares updated to 1.15.0

Android NDK updated to r18

Other misc bug fixes
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] .::Alien::.:
Thanks for the update, working like a charm again. Well done!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
Hello, thanks for update. I have updated donation package and arktube. But arktube does not recognize donation package. Is there any other way to recognize it? I tried uninstall donation package, uninstall arktube, reinstall everything, a lot of variatons and it keeps saying im with free version, but it doesnt work. Thank you!

Arktube 7.1

Donation package 4.2.

Uninstalled both. Then installed arktube 7.1, disabled doze, clicked to go to playstore for donation package, installed, clicked to open donation package, closed, went back to arktube, and it keeps saying im on free version of arktube. Tried to force stop both, it doesnt work.

P.S. it somehow got activated thank god
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Demecion:
Same here. Phone is Zenfone AR ZS571KL A002 with Android 7.0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
Just keep trying it will get activated. Try to stop optimizing donation package, then go for arktube.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Demecion:
Tried all tricks, reboot, reinstall, cache wipe for both arktube and donation package still no luck for ZenfoneAR (android 7.0). Always recognized as a free version of arktube. Icon for video download is there and works.

Zenfone 2 Deluxe works like a charm (android 6.0.1), but not with ZenfoneAR
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Thanks, that did the trick on my 5t! Was trying almost everything, nothing worked, then I tried your suggestion and "boom"... Seems related to the donation pack not being excluded form battery optimization!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lover:
Edited: workes great the icon is different now

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77621441&postcount=728
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
As always, thank you! Nothing else to say except that I'm happy such an amazing App is kept alive :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
After 3 downloads, i get again download error problem. Using OGG format. Not sure how to fix. I tried to uninstall and reinstall arktube, same problem.

P.S. started to download videos again successfuly?.. Kind of. No more download failed errors so far.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Pinoykillaz:
Ty for the update..working like a champ
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
For example this video is giving me download failed, if i try to download OGG. [youtube]zDnjYz15DbE[/youtube]

Anyone could try to download?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] i0r:
I get failed with all codecs on that

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Thanks for reporting.

Will fix it within 1-2 days.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ayumicn:
Donation package version 4.2 can not active arktube 7.1
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
I have problem that some songs can't download and when it downloads, it downloads wrong song metadata. I want to download youtube song metadata like before. I have checked to download m4a, add metadata to audio and enable vp9 downloads. I tried to download these 3 videos in m4a but it failed:

[youtube]PAqyJW7bFvI[/youtube]

[youtube]Nwp1wwrsUak[/youtube]

[youtube]0nHAA4F6Ww0[/youtube]

this one downloaded but with wrong metadata:

[youtube]MbauGG2HfuY[/youtube]

i will attach logs and screenshot:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Just checked, that's the same error reported earlier.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
arkTube 7.1.1 is up, after reports of some videos failing to download.

ASCII encoding handling was broken with 7.1.

And an additional note;

I really hope all, if not most, licensing issues would be fixed/addressed with this update.

It seemed like most of the licensing issues were due to Android limiting intent calls to wake up other apps.

This was never a problem for me or anyone near me, so I never had the chance to debug this.

After mailing back and forth with some users with the issue,

I'm hearing that disabling battery optimization for the Donation Package fixes the issue.

7.1.1

Fixed an error causing downloads of some videos to fail due to encoding issues

Prevention of Adoptable Storage added

Guide added to disable battery optimization for the Donation Package
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
Thanks. now 10/10 videos downloading. Great work, thank you very much ?.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Demecion:
Donation app crashes immediately after Arktube start. Can't register, only free version. Same issue as before and same phone. ZenfoneAR stock, non-rooted, 7.0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
Try to disable battery optimization for donation package. Also try to disable doze and any battery saver. Try reboot phone. It should work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Demecion:
I don't have any other battery saver app, or optimization apps. All stock, non-rooted.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
The new update has been tested on Android Nougat.

I'd greatly appreciate it if you can hook your phone up to a PC and get a logcat of the crash.

Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Demecion:
Thank you very much. Works like a charm.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] vthnhon:
Virus.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] andre0005:
Stop using antivirus apps on mobile phones. They are the worst kind of virus in existence.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Logan:
Just disable add metadata+thumbnails to downloaded video then you are done from it =)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Wrong, never enabled it in the first place. That only works for video downloads not audio only.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
I found that no Android device supports hardware decoding on opus.

I'll be adding opus support anyways, but be warned.

(If software decoder is bad, using hardware decoding on AAC would be actually better.)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Well that is odd because I play opus audio with my old S5 flawlessly. I am using the Y Music app and it always downloads the Opus files. I only have problem playing VP9 videos in Full HD. And why on earth should any modern device support the webm video codec but not the audio codec, makes no sense. The m4a was made by Apple. Opus audio and VP9 video are design for the webm format made by Google so it is just natural that any device support VP9 should support Opus. Webm is a royalty free format by the way. The support issues would rather be linked to outdated softwares. The original Samsung ROM did not support opus by default if I remember correctly but I flashed the newest CyanogenMOD so I have all the latest features and support by Google software based.

Here is a link of all the devices that supports the new media format of Google, webm that includes the video codec VP9 and audio codec Opus.

http://wiki.webmproject.org/hardware/socs
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Your link is VP8/9 codec support list, not Opus.

Opus simply is not widely spreaded for hardware manufacturer to implement support and mass produce it.

The only reason why they did for VP9 is because YouTube switched to it.

There's only Google OMX decoder for Opus, which is software decoding.

I double checked it with my S4, S6, OnePlus 3 and Nexus 6P.

None of them has Opus hardware decoding support.

You can check it yourself by opening up

/system/etc/media_codecs.xml

or the kernel.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
But that is not my major concern about your app, it is the non optional image and info merging to the audio files only downloads. It really adds unnecessary load on the CPU, specially on the lower end models. Also, most music apps only uses one image for each album, so if I download a playlist, your app automatically makes an album but only the first song in the folder will be used as the entire album art, therfore rendering all this merging processing useless. It is only when you use multimedia apps like MX Player and VLC Player where you'll see each image of every song.

Downloading audio playlist without any extra merging would makes things a lot faster and smoother, why not give us that option and then truly be able to say you are the maker of the very best YouTube Downloader ever created!

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Maybe they don't support hardware-based but what about software decoding?

I play Opus audio files with the MX Player, VLC, Y Music and even the native player with no problems at all.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Yeah, next version will have that option as well.

Tho, using the same thumbnails across all playlists will be quite difficult to implement. I'm gonna pass for that one..

:)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
That is certainly not the only reason, VP9 surpasses MP4 in quality with less data so this is just a rational part of improving technology and understandable YouTube got it first because it is the largest media database in the world and owned by Google.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Yes, all Android 5.0+ devices will be able to play Opus, at least.

Which is unfortunately, all through software decoder.

Well you can google for the cons of software decoding.

Battery life is obvious.

Software decoding eats more CPU cycles than hardware decoding.

Performance matters too.

In case of video codecs, software decoder simply cannot outperform hardware decoder performance.

Modern devices still have problem decoding 1080p/60fps by software decoder.

Though since we're talking about audio here, it won't matter much.

And I personally won't use it because of possible audio degradation during the software decoding process.

Software decoder simply converts the input to PCM, whereas modern hardware decoder passes the file straight through DAC.

While I was very intrigued when learning about Opus and its pros,

lack of hardware decoder is a deal breaker for me :/
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
I meant no thumbnail at all, just download the audio files with the same file naming method but skip the image and metadata completely. Is that not possible to implement as an option?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
I agree, but you have to think at the manufacturer's perspective.

Producing hardware costs money.

If they think users don't need it much, they won't implement it.

There are controversies around open-source codecs and patents too.

If they later found that VP9, Vorbis, Opus or any other codecs they implement, violates another codec's patent,

they have to pay a huge amount of money because hardware has already shipped.

VP9 is awesome,

(though I would have loved to see YouTube using H265 instead of VP9)

but if YouTube, the world largest video service, didn't switch to VP9, I don't think any manufacturer's would.

(Even Nexus phones don't support VP9 at the moment.)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
That's exactly what I meant.

There'll be the option to disable it :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Lets just forget about the opus thingy, I am more interested in being able to download songs as pure audio files. Videoder, Vidmate and TubeMate download songs by audio only. What I don't like about them though is that Vidmate and TubeMate have to parse the whole playlist first and you have to hold and drag in Videoder to batch download. The file naming is also rather ugly in Videoder and Vidmate but TubeMate keeps them clean but is needs an external encoder that pops ups everytime which is super annoying.

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Ahh ok awesome, I'll even through in another donation then. ??
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
lol

I'll make sure to upload the new version sometime next week :P
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Hey because we are hardware nerd chatting, check out ASUS newest flagship monster, Zenfone 3 Deluxe, just check out these insane specs:

Snapdragon 821

Adreno 530

6GB RAM DDR4

256GB Internal Storage

1TB SD Card support

21MP IMX 315 Largan lense

TriTec auto focus and multicolor flash

5.7 inch Super Amoled 100% NTSC & 3000:1 contrast

First complete unibody alloy body with no visible antennas.

Magnetic Speaker System Technology for greater sound.

Last but not least, it is so darn fine looking that I'll think I'll marry it!

No doubt my next phone!

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You're the MAN!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
[MENTION=7606324]Ragnar Eldur[/MENTION]

Developing planned stuffs(mostly taking care of external microSD) is taking more time than I expected.

And I don't want to keep you waiting.

Here's a beta of upcoming 4.0 version.

Your feedbacks has been all implemented.

This should be "mostly" stable.

Enjoy :)

http://www.arter97.com/arktube/app-release.apk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Thanks a lot man, good luck with acing this one!

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Just checked it out, looks sweeeet! Tried downloading audio in Opus and kinda interesting, played the song in MX Player with the hardware decoder and it worked. Man this is the most awesome app EVER!