yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Zeuszoos:
Hi,

LG V20 (H910A) - Nougat 7.0 - Rooted

arkTube 7.1.12 stopped working with YouTube. I figured it's some kind of YouTube update and I'd just wait for the next arkTube update. Fine.

But then the "arte97 Donation" app had an update, which I installed. When I then opened the arkTube app, the arte97 Donation License Validated fine. But the arkTube app showed the big pop up box that says that I need to install the License (arte97 Donation) and all of the paid features have been Disabled.

I tried opening the arkTube app a couple of times and even tried reinstalling the arte97 Donation as follows:

* Force Stop

* Clear Cache

* Clear Data

* Uninstall

* Reboot

* Install

* Ignore Opt = On (arkTube also)

* Reboot

* Run

Same result.

Is a new arkTube version on the way to fix this? The other recent posts talk about issues due to a newer Android version. But I'm still on v7.0 which this has always worken fine on.

So does anyone know if it's just that the License needs a new version of arkTube in order to work again? Usually the newer arkTube comes out first and then only if a new License is needed, does it come out afterward, so I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. :)

Thanks!

Zeuszoos
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Version 7.1.13 is up.

This new version requires arter97 Donation Package v4.7.

7.1.13

Added support for Android 11

Added an option to mark playlist numbers in reverse order
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Zeuszoos:
Please see my latest email. arkTube 7.1.13 with arte97 Donation Package v4.7 is not working, even with Android 7.0, which they have always worked fine with on both my and my wife's phone.

In fact, when I had uninstalled both apps (rebooted) and was reinstalling both apps, before I had put arte97 on, I ran the arkTube app one time to grant it permission to access the media files and a Notification showed that said;

"arkTube does not currently work with Android."

… or very close to that.

After then installing arte97 v4.7, it says that the License has been validated", but in arkTube v7.1.13, every time I open it, I still get the pop up directing me to buy the License and the Paid settings are Disabled.

Also, FYI, instead of arte97 notifying me just once that the License has been validated, it does it every time I open arkTube (and the arkTube "Go buy it" pop up appears every time as well. And it's not about a YouTube download error, because I haven't even tried using the new versions to do that yet. It's the same problem on my wife's phone.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Steve One:
Working great here.

Google pixel 4a on android 11.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Zeuszoos:
Are you using arkTube v7.1.13 and Arte97 Donation Package v4.7 on yours?

If so, do you have the ability to change the Paid settings?

If that's the case, maybe updating it for Android 11 broke something for working with Android 7.0? Because even though the license keeps saying it's validated, the main arkTube app is not recognizing it and won't enable the Paid features on either of the two phones I have here when I open the arkTube app.

I originally had 7.1.12 with 4.6 and the 4.7 Donation Package updated first. I updated that and that's when this issue began. Then when arkTube 7.1.13 came out, I updated that too, but same problem.

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling both, but still no go.

Like I said, now that it works on Android 11, maybe something got broke in relation to it continuing to work on Android 7.0? I don't know, just a guess. But I use it a lot and so I'd really like to get it going again! And I need the Paid features to work, because I need to be able to set it to download to my Ext SD Card like it was, because I don't have a lot of room on my Internal Storage.

Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] music2myear:
Just updated to 7.1.13 and now when downloading the notification shows and then says "Please select an option" on the upper portion of the notification. Tapping the notification doesn't bring up any options to select, nor does opening the YouTube app again.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tim3tripp3r:
Same apps as you (v7. 1.13 & v4. 7) on Oreo 8.0.0 and I have the exact same issues. Broken, donation package gives the thumbs up but the Arktube app doesn't work - says that I need the donation app.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] :
With the latest version everything appears to be working fine for me running Android 11! Thanks for the fix!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Tim3tripp3r:
There's a new donation app on the Play Store (v4.8) that's fixed the issues on 8.0.0. Hopefully everyone else will be okay as well. Thanks for the quick fix [MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION]!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] galaxys:
Will check out the v4.8 asap...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Zeuszoos:
Hello,

LG V20 (H910A) -- Android 7.0

arkTube v7.1.13

Arte97 Donation v4.8

It works with the v4.8 Donation update, but just in case someone else still gets an error at first after installing the update like I did…..

While at first it gave me the orange screen "Donation Package Not Responding" error when I ran arkTube after installing the Arte97 update, I just let it sit for a minute and tapped "Done". It took me into the "Ignore Battery Optimizations" settings (already had those set). Then when I backed out of that and was dropped into arkTube again and received another license error.

But I just let it sit and about 10 seconds later, another error message (notification) flashed at the top, but then suddenly all of the settings in arkTube became available and now it works! :)

Thank You Dev, for your hard work to fix it!!!

TTYL
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] polaxis:
Activation with donation package works, but all videos I want to download do fail since yesterday.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ettore88:
Hi guys.I have a S20+5G.Unfortunately I found that it is impossible to choose the resolution of the video.Hw can i fix it?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wzlde:
Files from a Playlist ending with a dot are not saved. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsaSf0bkW8-_LFbGDsAhpDRly5NP7cW_M
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
arter97, could you please add to your app youtube-dl's option '--no-playlist'? It would be useful for cases when you often open video from playlist (for example Watch later) and want to download only this video without any others.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wzlde:
Just noted that audio download doesn't work for this URL: [youtube]KSweaD7PWqw[/youtube]
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
That audio downloaded ok for me. Most likely it depends on the region you are from
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wzlde:
Yeah, my bad, I had data saver on, and it prevented background data. It works.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
arter97, in certain problem cases you can get youtube-dl's versions here (as I understand that some kind of reserve fork after that DMCA takedown)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Bwangster12:
Is it possible to get Arktube to work with Youtube Music? Started using Youtube Music Vanced recently, and the only thing I'm missing is the ability to download. YMusic doesn't seem to do that within the beta feature either.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
There are much interrupted downloads (particularly in videos with copyrighted audio) cause of old version of youtube-dl. Please update
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] erkme73:
I have latest Vanced (15.43.22 build 01.47.00) and arktube paid 7.13... all downloads fail after a few seconds. If I enable and use stock YT it works fine. Are there settings I need to configure to get them to play nice with each other? Using stock YT is so bad with ads I'd abandon arktube over Vanced. Stock YT app is unusable due to ads.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
I also have latest YT vanced 15.43.22 on my POCO X3, but I don't have any issue with arktube.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
This app needs update with newest youtube-dl engine...

It depends on the specific video. Try some of quite new music clips
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] marciozomb13:
As you know, youtube dl received a dmca complaint and was pulled out. Let's see what happens next.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] erkme73:
I must have been living under a rock. Thanks for the heads up on the take down. I suppose that explains why/how it stopped working. Quite a shame.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
A major update is up.

This update has been tricky due to the original youtube-dl engine taken down with DMCA,

but I believe everything is in order.

YouTube Music playlist download is also now working.

And,

5G

8.0

Switched engine to youtube-dlc 2020.10.31

Fixed an error causing some downloads to fail

Added support for Mix type playlists

Download now starts much faster

Resuming downloads now work more reliably

Optimized downloader to saturate multi-Gigabit connections such as 5G
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] erkme73:
Confirmed, works great! TY!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
arter97, thank you very much! Great work!

Also could you please reply anything about this request?

Is there possible add to your app youtube-dl's option '--no-playlist'? It would be useful for cases when you often open video from playlist (for example Watch later) and want to download only this video without any others.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Oceanik:
youtube-dlc 2020.11.07
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
Donation app always visible in app drawer. Currently I'm using it on POCO X3 (Indian varient). Previously I was used it some other devices but I didn't faced this issue. How do I hide the app.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Can you post a screen record of it?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
arkTube includes all that.

In fact, you can see me engaging with the developers there with those specific issues.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
With Android 10, even if an app tries to be invisible from the app drawer, they're forced to be shown.

(Due to security concern.)

Nothing I can do.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
Thanks for your response
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] CaptainHIT:
Hi arter97, thanks for this great tool. I purchased the donation pack right away from the beginning. I was using it without any problems until I switched to a Huawei P40 Pro. The new phone copied over everything installed on my old Phone, including the donation package app. But it doesn't work. Everytime I want to save a video, arktube asks me about the donation package. Is there something that can be done about this? Thanks
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
A bug-fix release 8.1 is up.

8.1

Added support to download an entire channel

Fixed playlist downloads due to Google's server-side changes
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
arkTube and the Donation Package depends on a functional Google Play services to work properly.

Is Google Play working properly?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] CaptainHIT:
Sadly it doesn't. Googlefier didn't work on my device. :crying:
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] exodius48:
[MENTION=4898097]arter97[/MENTION] How to download video yt to mp3 instead of m4a? Is there any clue?

Btw YT-DL is back, would you to revert to use it for latest release?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] KaMyKaSii:
YouTube does not provide audio in mp3, so all the tools that do this first download the original audio in m4a/ogg and convert it to mp3 afterwards, which ends up reducing the quality. Not to mention that mp3 is a very old format, anything you bought in this decade should play m4a
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] dereks100:
Can anyone link a youtube video or song that has a definite 256 bitrate. I bought the app and tried about 10 different popular songs and keep getting bitrates of 126-131. I do have premium.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] BigFatTony:
How can I find out if my device supports ogg vorbis hardware decoding?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ItsyourVj:
Hey buddy

One request to you, can you add download pause option ? And option to download audio in 256 kbps if user have premium ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] tarroyo:
I always wondered if being able to download live streams would be an option, Is it just too hard to implement or not possible?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fantomster:
8.1 dont works ☹️
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] polaxis:
I can confirm. No youtube videos work for me anymore since around 2-3 days.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] CuteMaltipoo:
good app thx
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] deva_noah:
The issue was identified by dev, hope it will be sorted out in couple of days. (As their notification message says)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] fantomster:
Any alternative youtube downloader?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Sam Nakamura:
Certainly yes, this is however not the right place to discuss alternative yt dl APPs and furthermore a simple search on your favorite search engine would most likely reveal many results... good luck!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Zaihanzainal:
Love this and immediately donated. I know it's not a critical function but any chance of a dark mode please
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] RagManX:
Installed this Tuesday and immediately bought the donate package. Thanks for this functionality.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] grdwalker:
Unsure why I can only see the audio option. The video doesn't show up when I select share.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bdr9:
I've been using the licensed version of ArkTube for years, but recently it seems to be having a lot of problems downloading videos. Sometimes the download will fail immediately after starting it, other times it will get to 95-99% and then fail. When it does work, it often downloads at 50 KB/s which takes forever.

Is there anything that can be done about this? Maybe an update to the youtube-dl library is needed?

Edit: It looks like yt-dlp (the currently active fork of youtube-dl) has fixed the throttling issue in their fork. According to the release notes, the below command-line argument works around the throttling. So maybe switching to yt-dlp would resolve this issue.

--extractor-args youtube:player_client=android
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] polaxis:
A workaround for me is turn of Wifi which cancels the downloads. Then I re-enable Wifi and manually click to continue the downloads. Most of then go to max speed.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] aouni_tahech:
This fixed the throttling, thanks! Hoping that the yt-dl fix is merged soon.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rumput_liar:
im face same problem too. download stuck in 60kbps
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] polaxis:
My workaround now doesn't really work anymore. I'm also stuck with download speeds between 45 and 85 kbyte/s. Rarely there is download limited to 1.3 MB/s.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Kasual7:
Came here because of the throttling issue, do we know what gives? is there an update in the work?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] slofo:
Hi.

I also have a problem with the download speed.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Kasual7:
It'd be great if anyone who's more verse than some of us can explain how to remedy the issue with the download speed?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] polaxis:
No professional here. But the issue is coming from Youtube I think. I haven't found a downloader (Android and Windows) that currently can go above 1 MB/s download speed. Maybe we just have to wait until someone comes up with a solution for this.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
A new update to address the speed issue is now live.

Sorry that it took so long, the new engine swap took a lot more effort than I originally anticipated.

9.0

Fixed download speeds getting throttled too extremely

Switched engine to yt-dlp 2021.12.01

Fixed an error causing downloads to fail on videos with multiple subtitles

ffmpeg updated to 4.4.1

Python updated to v3.9.9

aria2c updated to 1.36.0

Android NDK updated to r23b

Other misc bug fixes
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wzlde:
I have issues with this awesome app.

1. Some files from the same channel just fail, some download correctly. I would like to have more information, i.e. what's the reason (my wifi, or cellular, or provider blocked access, or something else). Now it just says Download failed. E.g. why does this file fail, both on wifi and on cellular:

-but other vids from the same channel can be downloaded?

2. I really need an option to resume hanged merging operations. When I download to sd card, I have often files that are merged up to 98% and then merging freezes. I need a way to see if merging of the file is frozen or mere slow.

3. I need a way to restrict total number of parallel downloads for non-playlist videos. E.g. download maximum 3 in parallel and add the rest to queue. Currently there is no limit on parallel download, and as a result, speed is low, and merging fails.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] designlab:
I was usingit without donation package, now all downloads fail, so donation is a must? Then call it other way.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Inpain:
I'm running ArkTube 9.0.1 paid, for some reason any video I download from YT won't show in my gallery, and when clicking the notification that says download complete I get an unknown file format error, any idea why ? Xiaomi POCO X3 PRO
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ghost18_07:
I have a problem with the donation package after i used lucky patcher and remove it. Now i have every time i try to use the application and i don't all the option like it was before using lucky patcher.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ghost18_07:
Are you using the MKV format ? The option is within the app :
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Inpain:
No I'm not
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ghost18_07:
Try use another program to learn videos like mxplayer
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Inpain:
But that has nothing to do with my issue...
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ghost18_07:
If the mxplayer can play your files than you have a problem with your player ( not sure ) , maybe you changed the default player accidentally as well.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] XErTuX:
What is the fix for uninteractable "Please select an option" notification?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] auzty:
im update arktube to v9.0.1, but i get donation package error and cannot be validated. im using miui12, and i didn't find donation package on my app setting
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] wzlde:
arkTube does not work on some airport networks for some reason: Initializing the download takes a very long time, then fails. But YouTube videos work on those networks. How can we work around this?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lee99:
Try newpipe libretube or songbird app.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] rumput_liar:
hi sir. slow download problem happen again. my connection is normal. but download speed always below 200kbps.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Majora_Luna:
Hello, love arktube. If not too much to add, could you add some sanity checking mechanism so that the app can react if, for example, a video spends too much time at the same progress level. Or if it stays initializing forever.

Rarely, arktube will freeze like this where every video is stuck downloading but won't progress, and other downloads permanently initialize.

If the program could do something to react to this, like restart the video download or maybe even restart itself and resume.

This happens to me with playlists.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Inpain:
Is this still maintained ?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bbortel93:
Still works beautifully for me bud

*No updates for a while but works flawlessly
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ragz:
Doesn't seem to work for me now...

Edit... it is working again, please ignore this post!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] HarmfulMonk:
Having an issue with v9.0.1 detecting the donation package. It has run fine for years on my LG v60 (T-Mobile) and now it just doesn't detect the donation package at all.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lordfener91:
Hi @arter97 Everything works great until a few days ago. Now when I try to download an mp3 it fail before starting. I don't know if YouTube has update something. I have the donation pack. Thanks.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ragz:
Still working for me
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] lordfener91:
It seems that the problem is with past livestreams only (I use them offline as podcasts).

I tried to download "normal" videos as mp3 and they work.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] m2habert:
same here, though I'm having problems with "no live" streams also.

I use arkTube everyday for extracting audio from daily live streams. The problem definetly started yesterday.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] sakvithuk:
Seems not working anymore, download fails.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] polaxis:
Confirmed. Neither video nor audio downloads are working anymore since yesterday.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Istvan_86:
For me it's also not working and never have a problem. Maybe it's a temporal problem.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ragz:
Same, not working
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
arkTube has been updated to 9.0.2 to resolve recent download failures due to server-side changes.

Download it here:

https://arter97.com/browse/arktube/9.0.2
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ragz:
Sorry, but it's not working for me v9.0.2
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] arter97:
Please elaborate with used arkTube options and the link to the video.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ragz:
Samsung S22ultra non root
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SpecialFX99:
Not working for me either. Currently trying Skrillex - The Quest for Fire album. Doesn't work as a Playlist or invidual songs. Galaxy #22+
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ragz:
Thank you thank you thank you...9.03 working Awesome!!!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] polaxis:
Same here. Audio & video downloads working again with new 9.0.3
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] SpecialFX99:
9.03 working so far! Thanks for such a quick fix!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Shrinkflation:
Amazing app! Is there any way to have the app automatically download new episodes that are added to a playlist without having to manually share it to Arktube? Basically, I would like to go to bed and have any new videos that were uploaded to channel or playlist sitting in my download folder when I wake up. I have no problem purchasing the donation version, just wondering if there was any way to do this. Thank you!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] m2habert:
same here as well, 9.03 good and true.

Thanks a million, arter97, can't live without this app.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Istvan_86:
9.0.3 working flawlessly, great job and thanks for this amazing app.