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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] westeight:
Purchased the donation package ... only to be instructed to remove another app from my phone before being able to use arkTube.

Lame.

Very lame.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AmyClaraRose:
Cool app will have to try it in a few months when can donate it's useless for me at present as can't download as mp3
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] playitlouder:
YouTube doesn't stream a MP3 file. That means youtube-dl (script that is used to download the videos) cannot provide a MP3 file.

Only way to get an MP3 is to convert the opus/vorbis file to MP3 using ffmpeg. Which is a lossy process, which in term means the audio quality suffers.

Additionally using ffmpeg will fully utilize your phones processor to convert the file. On an dual core I5 (much more capable than phone cpus) a 1h audio track takes 4-5 minutes to be converted to mp3.

Let's say your phone takes 15 minutes to convert the track, that means you've fully loaded your cpu for 15 minutes and probably lost 10%+ battery.

Thats probably why mp3 encoding is not implemented.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AmyClaraRose:
No you can download as mp3 but you need the donation package which I can't currently buy
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] BrianXDA:
Purchased the donation package, app is working fine without any problems.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] LBSpeller:
Perfect now :) many thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hapa8o8:
:D So after re-installing both the arkTube apk and donation app (PlayStore) about 6-7 times in different ways, I was able to get the arkTube apk to finally work with that PlayStore donation app... :silly:

Thank you to the arkTube team for this app. I hope to use it more often and hope it stays alive for a damn long time ;) :cool:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] turilo:
Purchased the donation package to an amazing and talented dev. Thank you!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
You had 2 hours of time window for a refund at the Play store.

Yes, a warning in the op would have been a polite gesture.

The thing is, I don't want to be polite to warez users.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] koekoek91:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION]

Great app, downloaded donation package straight away and it works as intended.

And to all people...

Even if there's no extra features that come with a donation package, I think it's decent if you like an app and can miss the small amount of money to donate to the dev purely to support the work.

Anyhow great work man, thanks :good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Schrotty35:
I have the donate package and can not use mp3.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] mpt123:
Thanks....

Its working now......Thanks .

Have to say that this app is way better than other YouTube downloaders in terms of the size of the file and processing speed.

Thanks again for this great app, you made the YouTube downloads simple and easy.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] skorpion1298:
I used TubeMate for maybe a decade. I'm very interested in testing new :) thanks!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Pancha5:
Please add built in download manager to pause, resume, cancel and delete videos
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FaserF:
I have just bought the donation package.

Then I tried to download my first video with this app and I always get: Connection error

But I am connected to a working WIFI Network.

Will check it again later on another wifi network.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sinistersky:
So, you cant do anything really withouth the donation package? Why not just have one paid package?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] white7561:
Just bought it. And I'm very happy with my purchase . I'm just hoping to get dark theme . Thanks for your work btw
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Gawd:
Too bad I can't purchase the support App :/
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] simraan.shaikh1995:
Is it better than Snaptube?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] trurl3:
Ver. 5.2.1 generic -	Not able to save : "Can't find the download directory!" Android 6, Huawei Mediapad X2.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] kafudz:
I will try it for a week and maybe consider to donate

Nice app, thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AndrÃ©_Droid:
Great app, I can't use it though.. my phone says the package can't be installed.. I'm running Android 7.1.1 AOSP JDCteam on my Galaxy S4. Anyone have a way 8 could fix the issue if it can be fixed, please.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] marciozomb13:
Hi, dev. Is there a translation project ongoing? I can help you with brazilian portuguese.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Klutonec:
MOD EDITED

Anyone know another method of allowing background play of YouTube? Red doesn't allow background play in the country I'm in.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AkshayGunplay:
does this support 320 kbps audio download?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Gawd:
Because I can't make payments online since I am underage and stuff. [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] what can be done about this situation :(
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Most likely the download has been corrupted.

Please try downloading again.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Planned to ship in 5.2.2 :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
arkTube will download the audio that has the highest bitrate.

So far, the highest one I've seen is 256k.

If you find a video with 320k audio, I'll test it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Is the Google Play giftcard out of the question?

Authentication using Google Play is realistically the only solution.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AndrÃ©_Droid:
Thanks man
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bilal132:
I really like your app so i have purchased donation package. Thank you for your hard work and for this awesome app.

Feature request:

I have wrongly start downloading a playlist from Youtube but their no option in notification tray to cancel it so please add a stop/pasue button option in notification tray. Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dibik:
link to download isn't working
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Fenvarien:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] Thanks for this awesome app, I just bought the donation app to show my appreciation. :good: :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AkshayGunplay:
Yes, you're correct. I couldn't find a video with 320kbps bitrate . But there are websites which provide 320kbps audio download like clipconverter, etc. So is it possible for you to implement this feature? Just asking ?.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fivefour:
Subscribing for updates. Donation purchased, 4K is what I needed and this does it well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Logan:
It gonna be worse check this as OP stated:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Logan:
You can tap on the notification itself and options will show up it is mentioned in the instructions when do you open the app for first time.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dibik:
I can't access download link.. is there any other mirror for the apk?!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] goldsilver13:
Use Flytube for background play... sorry if doing something uncool by mentioning a different app... i would rather use ark, but I really enjoy background play, with screen off.

Flytube doesn't download content though!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KennyG123:
Thread cleaned

This app requires removal of Lucky Patcher... Period

It is not up for discussion or debate

There is no legal use for that app

Background youtube play is a function of YouTube's pay service

Thank you for your cooperation
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] veez21:
I'm trying this one, seems pretty good and minimal.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Gawd:
Supporting the dev, always.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] saor11:
Got the paid version works fast no hassle thank you. As for people crying over 1.99 that's a joke :confused:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] tracerit:
$2 is little for a quality app but I'm trying to check it out first. Anyone have a link to a working download apk, the link in the OP doesn't work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] :
Thread cleaned.

There's is absolutely no talk of lucky patcher allowed on xda. Period. It can steal payments from developers, and this is a development site. If you don't like that, then go find a site that allows such talk.

YouTube background playback is also a paid service and therefore considered Warez here. So none of that either please.

Anymore and we'll talk privately. :good:

Cheers,

Darth

Senior Moderator

Edit: Oh, and xda fully supports and applauds any means to prevent piracy, like anti piracy features in apps and roms. ;)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] :
If anyone has an issue, my pm box is open. Or the report button is available too. :good:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
It works for me on xda labs though, try open in a browser or different browser, etc. It's technically working - issue on your side...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Steve One:
Got the paid version, works great.

Thank you very much for sharing this with all of us Sir.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sermpie:
Hey thanks for this great app.

I really like IT ;)

Only got 1 problem..........

I cant set the directory to external SD on my Huawei P9 without getting this error.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Genericxx:
Like that new App, bought the Donation Pack yesterday. One thing that i'm not that into and someone pls enlighten me regarding Audio Quality: Audio is recommendend to store as AAC/M4A and there is no option to store it as MP3. So i'm guessing that M4A is equal or even superior to MP3. Right? Are there any downsides in comparism to MP3 and at which bitrate Audio is encoded, because there is also no Option to choose from.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Oooooooooh my lord, running the latest LineageOS with the Boeffla kernel in permissive SeLinux mode, tweaked with all the performance mods by Lspeed, all ads blocked by AdAway. Everything is so slippery smooth and sleek like never before, I ****ing LOOOOOOOVE IT!

Ohh almost forgot, the MOST EXTREME audio enhancer ever, Viper4Android 2.5.0.5

Using the SHOWBOX 4.82 app to watch or download any movie or show at all and using the copy to function provided by the MiXplorer file manager latest beta to download the 720p fast stream provided by the SHOWBOX app just because it's so darn handy! And then arkTube, the GOD of all YouTube downloaders, never been better! ?

Here is my video demonstration of my setup :)

[youtube]WLI3Ka6NKXA[/youtube]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] trurl3:
Yes, I wold like it eitherbut have this problem too...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Android450:
Hello, I've purchased the donation package yet it continues to tell me that I need to purchase it to use the app
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Gawd:
Open arkTube, it'll update after a few seconds. Don't worry :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Android450:
I've had it open for a few minutes now I even tried a reboot and no luck
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Android450:
I did that and have been sitting here 5 minutes and nothing :(
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Fenvarien:
Reboot and try again, this worked for me. :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Android450:
No luck
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Gawd:
Clear data and cache of both, arkTube and the arter97 donation app. Then open donation app. Then open arkTube.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jauhari:
Let's me try this awesome App
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] weapons777:
Temporary network error, please check your connection

Hi.

I am getting the following notification immediately after trying to download any video.

Temporary network error, please check your connection

I have tried several videos with the same result. Also tried changed some settings like Resolution or Fast download with no luck. I have donation version 5.2.1

Oneplus 3T. Nougat. Using youtube_12.01.55-120155640_minAPI16(arm64-v8a)(nodpi)-adaway by arter97.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Plonkplonk:
Same here (Fire Phone with LineageOS).

EDIT: Should have read the solution a few posts above at first. :(
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
[DELETE]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FaserF:
Videos longer than about 15 minutes cant be downloaded. Connection Error.

But I can download videos shorter than that on the same network without issues.

Donation Pack installed.

Same setup, same issue. Same device, same adaway version.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Gawd:
No issues here. Downloading 1440p+4K. Total length 1h+17m

Using YouTube App from the Play store. Device: OnePlus One. No AdAway.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] weapons777:
I've tried videos of different lenghts with the same error as a result. I even uninstalled the patched version of Youtube and installed the Playstore version. No luck.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] benny856694:
bought donation pack to support the developer

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just open the main app and wait a second
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ettore88:
Hi guys.Just a question.What are the differences with Snaptube?THX in advance.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] raShMan777:
for me the donation pack also still isn't detected (and i haven't heard from arter97 since sending him my log a few days ago).

i tried reinstalling, rebooting, deleting data, deleting cache, rebooting, opening in various ways, ...

it still isn't working, the donation pack is not recognized and EVERYTIME i open arktube i get the notification "(1/3) initializing".

also everytime i get this:

23:27:53.640 ActivityManager(21451)

Scheduling restart of crashed service com.arter97.donation/.Listener in 1000ms​

OPO, cm13 (jgcaap build) 20161205, xposed, no lucky patcher

anybody got any idea?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] night02:
Well I got this
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SketchyStunts:
Same here. Should we declare shenanigans or let it slide?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] humzaahmed155:
Bought donation version almost instantly. Just asking a question though, could we get gain control in this app too please? Only asking because some YouTube videos are for some reason very low in volume. This would be really useful!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Do you mean temporary network error?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
That would require audio encoding, which will reduce the quality.

That functionality itself deserves to be on another app.

I would suggest you to use a video player that can dynamically boost the volume.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
anyone can confirm if this app let's download videos as mp3 files at 320kbps? I don't want to buy full version, just to find out that quality is worse. I tried a lot of online converters and they are kinda crap in music quality. I found only one so far to have the highest speed for converting videos and having best sound quality. Could you make at least ability to let us convert 2-3 audio files before locking it to make this feature for donation users only? Thank you a lot! Thanks for this app, I've been trying to find app which converts playlists for years! but not sure why Google did not popup this app :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ragnar Eldur:
Sorry ****inhg Google just bloody removed it!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FaulFels:
This app does not convert files. It just fownloads the files with specific parameters.

YouTube itself hosts each file in multiple formats. So this app just loads the format you tell it to do.

YouTube does not use mp3 but aac.

(Tell me, if I am wrong)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
well, yes, I know, but you can download videos as music file format using this all just paid version. I'm wondering if it gives best possible quality or it makes worse quality. I would like to have original quality as mp3 file. 320kbps is the max allowed I believe. And 48KHz. Because im using PowerAmp player and I can clearly hear a difference between low quality (non 320kbps) audio files and high quality. I'm using 2€ earphones. This player is amazing. And im always converting music from YouTube. Now looking for easiest alternatives and I'm wondering if arkTube supports "source" quality of the video :)

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as this app uses youtube-dl from https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options it says that it should let save files in these formats:

"Specify audio format: "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a", "opus", or "wav"; "best" by default"
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
https://www.youtube.com/user/BRKsEDU

When attempting to download videos from this user, there is always a "Temporary network error", but videos from other users are possible to download. Maybe it's a copyright that prevents the video from being downloaded? It would be good if the app to warn us about this.

Feature request:

Would it be possible to add MP4 and VP9 options on the download screen? Although my device apparently does not have the VP9 codec, I have no problem watching videos encoded that way in MX Player. But for videos that I want to watch on TV later, MP4 is sure to be the best choice. And having to change every time the app configuration is annoying. And a second "Auto select resolution" option only for playlists downloads is also welcome
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] falptekin:
I asked this in previous pages. You will see if you read. But I will repeat to be "too" polite. Only 3 formats (aac, ogg-vorbis, ogg-opus) can be downloaded from youtube. Some of programs convert that audio track to mp3 etc. Best audio quality you can get from youtube is 48 khz 160 kbps variable opus. It -subjectively- is better than 320 kbps mp3 track I can say being an semipro audiophile with ok hardware. If someday youtube starts to use more bitrate with opus(up to 510 kbps supported) will be the nearest point to lossless audio.

Another important point is the support for decoding ogg container - opus format in your player.

And, the format section you see in youtube-dl page is in "post-processing" section as you see. First youtube-dl downloads and CONVERTS to that specified format.

I really don't remember if downloading in opus is supported in free or paid version..

Have a nice day.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
Its okay lol. But I understand for myself, best quality for me is 48khz and 320kbps audio as I haven't seen any better audio on my phone. Sorry if I'm bad at this, but I'm not an audiophile. For me 320kbps is very OK, until I will hear a better format. Best mp3 quality I saw using online YouTube converters is 320kbps, and even those are pretty hard to find. So I'm wondering, how audio files works in arkTube? When you click download, which file do you get? mp3 or any other file and which bitrate? thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] falptekin:
first of all i must say again, when someone upload a video on youtube, youtube servers convert original videos auido track to 3 different codecs:(aac,vorbis,opus). NO MP3. NO LOSSLESS. NO WAV. NO FLAC. All programs on earth can only download aac/vorbis/opus from youtube. If you want different formats you convert it with other programs or your youtube donwload program/website converts it to your desired format. And a dumb information, if you convert a 128 kbps mp3 to 320 kbp mp3, you will not gain quality. You lost quality when you convert to 128 kbps first. This means when youtube converts your uploaded video it puts different filetypes and best audioquality you can get from youtube is (251 id) opus 160 kbps variable. You get your opus in 160 kbps and you CAN convert it to whatever codec you want. But i prefer not, if your phone/player can play it directly. Because there is no other format/codec on earth that will give you same quality in same size. If it were possible, youtube/google would do that! If your player only supports mp3, you can try downloading opus with arktube or what program you want and convert it with another program to mp3 320 kbps.You can read about opus codec. It is far better and new from mp3. Bitrates are not the whole thing. You see best mp3 quality 320 kbps because mp3 top bitrate limit is 320 kbps.

you choose download format in settings of arktube between aac-opus-vorbis.(youtube aac and vorbis variable 128 kbps, opus is max 160 kbps variable if i remember right. ). Your downloaded file will be a m4a/aac file for aac, webm/ogg for vorbis and opus.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
so you suggest to convert music videos to 'opus' audio format for the best possible quality from YouTube video if my player supports it? I will try this to see if I can hear any difference in sound between mp3 at 320 kbps :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] falptekin:
I couldn't tell right it seems. You dont need to convert to opus because you just get opus file from youtube without converting. Try it with your player and if it doesnt play, just convert it to mp3 320..
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
well, I Wish, I could do that, but I don't have premium arkTube to allow me download audio files :/

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OK so I just bought premium, and so choosed OPUS format. I have the same converted audio file as MP3 from different converter at 320kbps and it uses 9.2mb space, while OPUS file from arkTube takes just 3.88mb and has 133kbps. Is this OK?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] falptekin:
totally ok
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] IAmLucky:
okay, I will try to notice a difference if there is any with my headphones

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hmm, wow, interesting, actuallyi can't spot the difference between those two files. But I really like to see that opus takes twice less space and no loss in quality. Thanks a lot, sorry for my bad knowledge in these codecs and converters.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] falptekin:
no problem, i am happy now :) youtube/google have chosen the opus for their best quality audio because it is the best quailty/size codec and it is totally a free codec. thanks to [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] -the developer of this application - included this codec too...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] schmolch:
"Auto select resolution" does not work reliably.

Im downloading a playlist of which all videos are available in 1080p and many are downloaded in 480p.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
720p+ videos there aren't provided at 30fps.

Use 1440p60fps to download 1080p.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Thanks for the report.

I'll fix it on the next version.

arkTube is misinterpreting warning as an error, in that case.

Regarding VP9 option,

I'll add it if you can come up with an idea to do that in a simple and elegant way.

I don't want to confuse users with yet another share menu,

or doubling the "select resolution" lists :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] FaserF:
Yes exactly, but it isn't my network. Tried it in a few networks and short videos downloading is working great.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
5.2.2 will be uploaded in the next few days.

Please try with that version.