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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
3.3 is now live.

3.3

Internal optimizations

youtube-dl engine updated from 2016.02.13 to 2016.04.24

Fixed some playlist downloads not working

Misc errors fixed
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SamuelBegui:
This looks great, going to give this a shot.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] tinydynamite00:
Hey [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION], Take it you don't do PMs after contacting you about a concern I had and never receiving a reply.

Anyway, iterations of the app later - v3.3 as of this writing - I can't get the base app to recognise the donate package any longer, hence all fetching defaults to video only - no audio only option soever. Wonder if you'd be bothered to speak to that, perhaps go as far as to provide suggestions for a remedy to get this app fully operational the way it began. Appreciate it!

EDIT: Squash it. Problem sorted by uninstalling, re-downloading the donate package and launching it from within play pen. Audio only option now appears in share context menu.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Dji_Ronku:
Which one is for downloading the mp3 file / video file ?!

Would be better if you name these things to Mp3 or music & video :) this would help me a lot!

(Tubemate has so much ads.. Better Uninstall it :D)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Dji_Ronku:
Downloads stopping

Also when a download is running & you open arktube and then swipe it away from the recent apps, the download will stop and not resuming :/

Noticed an FC when "auto select resolution" is set to the highest e.g. 8K 60 Fps.. FC happens when you click on share - download (video file)

Maybe you could explain me, how to send logs :)

But your S6 kernel is the best !!!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] maaswijk:
Super Thanks works perfectly :good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ariefabuzaky:
Iam just realized icant download video/audio with offline unavailable marking in youtube ...

This happend after i update youtube..any advice ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AntholifeV2:
Unknown error...

Envoyé de mon SM-G928F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] societyragdoll:
My video downloads fail but audio is fine. I have the donation package and am running iYTBP as my youtube app. Anyone know what I could do? Is there a setting​ I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE:

Managed to fix it by setting the save method to 'GENERIC' instead of 'ROOT' when setting a download location. (Although I have a rooted device.)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
Try to download in mkv format instead in mp4 format.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] my internet connection drops a lot and I'm having some problems with resuming the download. Well, the problem is actually in the notification. After clicking to resume, the notification gets frozen as if it were restarting the download, but in network traffic I can see clearly that the download is happening. Then again my connection dropped, and after clicking resume, the notification returned to normal already at 99% of the full download, proving that it was downloading although it did not seem like it. I tried to register a logcat by turning off the wifi during the download and then trying to resume, but I had some problems with this. I hope that with the steps you can discover the problem. Something strange that I noticed is that the notifications return to normal at the end of the download. And as I've previously recommended, a download list is essential for this great app, but considering that this may take some time to complete, could you first bring an option to try to resume the download automatically after some error? It's annoying to have to do it manually every time. And as usual, thanks for your work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] societyragdoll:
I've tried that with no luck, thanks for the suggestion though.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rom116:
I tried to download audio and video in the free version to test and it is prompting me to but the donation package. Do i have to pay for it for it to work? No way to test?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
I can assure you that it's working extraordinary well, the donation key is like 1,50 EUR, that is in no relation to the great support from arter97, constantly updating to keep up with Google's update madness without real improvement most of the time...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Schrotty35:
I have buy license but arkTube dont show me all option. Get the info for buy but i have buy.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] keysuck:
Same here. Xiaomi Mi 5 on latest MIUI 8 eu stable rom.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] krkhaha:
Hi guy's. How can I download audio in mp3 format? I have full version but all the time download in m4a.

Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
No, you can't. You can download videos in mp3 with YouTube Downloader, search xda. But if you focus to download videos in better sound quality, choose this app and Opus format.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] StardustGeass:
Hmm... Today I have problems when I tried downloading both playlist and individual audios.

Last time I download is like a week ago without problems.

Anyone have the same problem?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lammpat:
Nah, never had such issue, btw I am on donation version, don't know if it makes any difference.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
Can you fix notification issue, when notification is expanded, it shows incorrect info and no download speed. I use All Notification Expanded xposed module.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Please attach a screenshot of this issue you're talking about.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Bug fix release is up.

5.4

Dropped support for Android versions below 5.0

ffmpeg updated to 3.3.3

youtube-dl engine updated to 2017.08.18

Python updated to 3.6.2

Fixed a random crash making notifications stuck on Android Nougat

Fixed a crash for German users

Fixed a crash while parsing auto select data

Fixed an issue causing notification title to be weird on Android Nougat during resuming downloads
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sieem:
Thanks for the update. Exactly the fixes I wanted to see. First testing with the new versions shows it's a lot more stable. Now it's very usable!

One question: could it be possible to change the icon of audio in the sharing menu? Sometimes I click on it by accident because the sharing menu always has a different order (stupid android). But this is just minor thing.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Pancha5:
On Android 8.0 arkTube version 5.4 has some issues, but 5.3.3 works fine on 8.0 and 5.4 working fine on Android 7.1.2

-Licence verification problem, even though it says successful can't access pro features...

-Doesn't show notifications while downloading
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] thevirgonian:
I had these same issues on 7.1.1. They would all install properly but the license verification didn't work (even though it said it did). I ended up uninstalling both Arktube and the license, rebooted, then reinstalled both and they ended up working. I am on official OnePlus 5 OOS 4.5.8, rooted.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] psygbert:
same issue with me on 8.0
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Logan:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] i am getting "download failed" with this link would you like to check it up?

Link: [youtube]B2BVoggAhU4[/youtube]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Working perfectly here. ArkTube 5.4 with vp9 video and ogg audio
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] thevirgonian:
I get it a lot with newly uploaded videos, especially if they are longer, like an hour+. If I try a few min later, they work. I think for some reason if they are only like 360p and they are supposed to be much higher resolution, they won't work immediately. I don't know how YouTube does it, but when there are videos that have multiple resolutions, and they don't "register" as such, the download will fail. I think it takes YouTube a few min to register the video as having higher resolutions for them to download properly.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] cchalk:
Yes, you need to wait a bit for YouTube to process the video to get the higher resolutions. I like to get the 22 format which is 720p video with audio so no need to combine the audio and video together. Also formats such as 22 download a lot faster.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bdr9:
I am also having the license problem after updating my Pixel to 8.0. The app says that the license was verified, but the pro features do not ever activate.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] yaron316:
same here, reinstalling didn't help, 5.3.3 works
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ErwinP:
Is there anybody else having problems with downloading audio from a playlist? Had it on both 5.4 and 5.3.3 on Android 7.1: It keeps hanging on "initializing playlist". The playlist is about 170 songs, but this lenght was not an issue before, no?

Kind regards,

Erwin
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
arkTube license validation works fine, never had problems with that.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ErwinP:
Actually, I've just noticed that it works fine with playlist of about 50 songs. So apparently there is a maximum that it can fetch?

Regards,

Erwin
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SkaboXD:
I tried now with a playlist of 270 songs and it stops for me too.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Lego_C3PO:
In the past few weeks this app has stopped working. Currently on 5.4 and every download gets stuck on "initializing download". Playlist audio, individual audio, and individual video do not work. Every video and playlist I have tried has the same issue. The dl notification also disappears after about 30 seconds but reappears once I open the arktube shortcut. I uninstalled and rebooted, then reinstalled but that did not fix anything. I also tried 5.3.3 (which I know worked for me prieviously) with no success.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] r_ido:
Cannot install/update 5.4 on kitkat, 5.3.3 is working fine, both app and the license app.

Need a new phone. LoL
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
Is anyone else suffering freezing of the notification during some download? I've tried downloading the video below (720p60 vp9 opus) about five times and always freezes at 50-60%. Then I try to stop the download and then resume, but then either the download starts at the beginning or is frozen in "Initializing download...". I have tried clearing cache of the arktube several times but it did not work

[youtube]iGgTCE7z1HM[/youtube]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Dealing with arktube failing to start downloading playlists all the time now.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Stylez Ray.:
On Oreo rom the license verification works but the app itself doesn't recognise it and only runs as free version. Is there a workaround?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Especially when restoring the app with TiBu I have to clear App-Data to make license verification work again, don't know about you but you can try it anyways, just to be sure... (Settings, Apps, arkTube, clear data)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Stylez Ray.:
I never restore data with TiBu. Already cleared data but still doesn't work. What a pitty
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] paed808:
I bought the donation package but then immediately refunded it because even though I paid, it wants to dictate what I can or can't have installed. And i don't even use "yellow smiley face app" for piracy, I use it for removing Amazon DRM from things I bought because Amazon Appstore is bloated and I hate keeping it installed. But I'm sure XDA mods wont agree and will call me a filthy pirate even though I am a paying customer.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] psocik:
i have problem to pay via PayPal from uk in £ any ideas why? Thanks

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] DonYayo:
5.4 does not work in oreo, license fails all the time, 5.3.3 works perfect in oreo, does anyone know any solution with 5.4?

Enviado desde mi Redmi Note 3 mediante Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AK2H:
Check your inbox ;)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] -Deco-:
Huh? Arktube doesn't check what apps you have installed nor care; XDA prohibites talk of LP because the vast majority of users will use it for "illegitimate" purposes.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] paed808:
The donation package checks for LP and forces you to remove it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SGT Basshead:
Works great but the Album Cover/thumbnail is bad quality, any way to get better ones?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] JYJY:
I'm facing the same issue. 5.3.3 works with oreo but not 5.4.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] iHack13:
Hi,

I have been looking for a good YouTube downloader. I am willing to pay for it too. I also wrote that in the GetTube thread , sadly it seems that there is no more support for it .

I mostly need it to when I am on cellular internet . To save bandwidth and download the video and audio dash combination.

So I downloaded arktube .

My first experience with it : very weird. I clicked the 5.4 folder and it gave me an 5.3 APK . After installation it told me to update to 5.4 . Wtf ?

Then I saw that the free version is very crippled and almost non usable.

I can't even try out if it is going to get the job done that I need.

I want to choose video and audio quality , even more I want a preset that I can save and any video I click shall be downloaded in that quality preset.

Is this possible with the full version of this app? Also how do you download videos? It doesn't show up anything in opera mini which I have to use

Edit:

Alright. Managed to download. Was clicking youtubes share button. Not the opera's. It didn't let me choose audio quality though. That's bad
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] thevirgonian:
I have also asked to be able to download at different video presets. I watch video game videos and I would like to download those at Max quality (or whatever is good...I actually think 720p@60fps is good enough) but then I also download political videos or interviews and I don't need anything more than 360p for those. If we could have a preset for whatever quality we want this would be the perfect downloading app.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Stephen:
Thread cleaned,

We do not condone hacking apps. If it is a paid app, then please pay for it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] iHack13:
Get GetTube latest alpha . Solved all my problems.

It is better than this and its free.

It has 10 times more options than the paid version of this app , which is in comparison ... kind of a joke.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Me and my wife are using the paid version since one year, it's just 1,50 EU, I really like to support arter97, of course any video / audio quality can be chosen, either individually per download or as standard setting... Adding this option to the paid version is definitely justified IMHO, of course only basic features are present in the free version, there's nothing wrong with it, as one purchases the donation key via Playstore there's the standard option to get a refund within 2 hours I think, there's a prominent note after the purchase! Never had wrong version downloads, support is great and arter97 is a beast when it comes to keeping up with Google/Youtube's update frequency...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] iHack13:
Can you confirm the refund option? Its not enabled for every app.

Where in the screenshot do you select audio quality?.

I don't see bitrate. In GetTube, you can choose any quality you like and queue your downloads and whatnot
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Please do your homework and use search (the little search button imbedded in this thread), keywords "audio quality" and "refund", all information is there...

And please be aware that this is a support thread for arkTube and nothing else, especially it so NOT a comparison thread, it's considered rude! Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] iHack13:
I just answered the guy who seemed to have the same issues (control over quality presets)

I want to be able to control everything when I download something. The download method , formats , resolutions and bitrates and whether I want to download them now or whether I want to list them up and press the start button once I am connected to WiFi .

Or whether I want to disable auto play when browsing for the videos so it doesn't suck up cellular data or even set the quality of the thumbnails .

You can take this as feedback and it has been said that other free alternatives offer these , so you can take it as a goal to improve your app and keep up with the competition and improve your overall skills.

You can also not listen to any of this and simply take youtube-dl , strip even the basic features , put a GUI on it and take credit/money for it.

Your choice. I'm out. Peace
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] zelendel:
Well then we look forward to your contribution in developing such a project.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] iHack13:
That "ultimate YouTube downloader" is already there . See my posts above. I am not going to further promote it in this thread
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] zelendel:
Look man. Here is the bottom line. You can use what someone makes and be thankful or you can make it yourself. Attitudes like yours is what makes android development no fun and the reason many have left the site. The app does what it is meant to do and it does it well. If it's not what you need then you all means use or make something else.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Pancha5:
Dev kindly give an option to turn off update available notification, since can't use 5.4 on Oreo, so using 5.3.3 and it keeps pestering everytime i start to download a video....
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Man sometimes the playlist download works and other times not, what is causing this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] leoni1980:
Does this ultimate app allow you to select and download videos from a search list without ever actively ‘entering’ the video itself? The glory of Arktube for me (as someone who likes to cache videos for my commute) is that it is fast and efficient. I don’t give a hoot about bitrates and shmingschmang2692):&*# codecs - I just want watchable videos, fast. Every other downloader I’ve ever used has required clicking on the video before the option to download comes up. This means that if I want to watch videos on a given topic, I search, click on video one and hit ‘download’ then when I go back I have to go back to the top of the search results. If the downloader you suggested doesn’t work like this then I bow to your knowledge but as it stands I think Arktube is great work. It is literally the reason I always have to have an Android device rather than iOS.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Sure, on search list just hit the share button and tap video (or audio) to download, no need to open it actually...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lordxcom:
Love the app, worth the donation, easy to use, status up to date.

Quick question, want able to find a solution in the thread, had anyone figured out a work around for pulling the play lists? Was working great the weeks ago. All able to grab singles, just hangs with initializing download, when trying to grab a play list.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] leoni1980:
It didn’t seem to work this way for me when I tried it. Ark tube seems to involve few button presses and swipes to get what I want done. Gettube Alpha was deleted from my phone again within ten minutes as I know I’ll never use it in preference to this.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Only additional decisions you need to make the first time is download quality, otherwise it will ask with each download from playlist and if it should start with the newest or oldest videos in playlist...

I'm strictly using the payed version, not sure if the free version offers similar convenience...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] leoni1980:
I don’t want to choose res every time. I just want it to default to 480p as with Arktube. I only want to watch things on my commute and I’m not bothered about the quality, as long as it’s watchable. An extra selection on every download is an extra unnecessary step that I don’t need, so I guess for me Arktube is just the better option.

Thanks for your help anyway.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Please read carefully and check yourself, you can preset the resolution, so only last decision would be to decide whether to start with oldest or newest videos from Playlist...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sytis:
I don't really want to play the "self entitled moderator" but could you guys solve the discussion via PM? In addition to the fact that it is quite rude coming to a thread just to "advertise" another App and tell use how bad the App which the thread is about is, it is also cluttering the thread and makes it harder to find valuable information on the main topic. Other than that, have a nice day.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Why does arkTube fail to download some playlists?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] psocik:
Hi i purchase arkTube pro and I*have a problem activating arkTube's pro features. Can you help me please? Thanks

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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] veez21:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] I have problems with the pro features not activating on Oreo
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] JYJY:
Use the older version - 5.3.3 works fine on Oreo.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
The playlist downloading feature of arkTube just doesn't seem to work anymore and I've mentioned it several times but haven't got any response from the developer. It's definitely not problem related to my phone because now I have a brand new Galaxy S8 Plus and still having the very same problem as on my old phone. I was forced to start using another YouTube downloader, called Videoder. Sad to have to part ways like this.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
arkTube updated to 5.5.

Please use this version and see if it solves any of the reported issues.

5.5

aria2c updated to 1.33.0

ffmpeg updated to 3.3.4

youtube-dl engine updated to 2017.10.20

Python updated to 3.6.3

Android Oreo compatibility issues workarounded

Few improvements to avoid force-closes
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] DonYayo:
5.5 works great, no more license fails in Oreo, thank you so much
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] D-m-x:
Great work, thanks. Best Downloader Out there, bought the donation package immediately after the first time using it.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 6P mit Tapatalk
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Lifesaver, playlist downloading back to working sweet! Got me worried there for a moment, thought I was gonna have to use another downloader, but you came trough like always. Love your work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Giiar:
Is it just me or is this app no longer on the Play Store? I got the donation package but cannot find the app in the store.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] justlookin412:
The app was never in the play store. There is a link in the OP to download the app!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Giiar:
That's what I thought, thanks.