Here’s what’s new in v. 0.92:

- Paging! Search results are no longer limited to 200 YouTube videos, and you can now navigate forth and back in the results, 50 videos at a time.

- Error feedback dialog now only shown if an unexpected or serious error, otherwise just normal error message

- A few more checks for null pointers here and there

- Color scheme for Windows made more consistent

- Corrected an error at startup ocurring in special cases

- Downloads tray: A queued item can now be removed

- Downloads tray: A cancelled or faulty download can now be retried

- Error caused by attempting to download a non-existing video is now gracefully handled

- A Universal build of FFmpeg is now used, so Tubulator will work on PPC Macs too. Thanks to http://go.to/osxffmpegcompiling !

- AAC files now deleted when converted to MP3

- MP3 stream rate now capped to 192 kbps instead of 320 kbps, which results in smaller files

- Files were not tagged with artist (changes in FFMpeg format): Fixed

- User interface fixes

- AAC audio now compatible with iTunes

- Added artist/title tags to AAC extracted files

- Channel video URL now supported (for example http://www.youtube.com/user/elonguita#p/a/u/0/950X2C0kQYA)

- Fixed wrong message about YouTube having changed format, when the issue was in reality a request for adult verification (in non-english language)

- Right click functions in top user pane was not transferring user name correctly: Fixed

- When a playlist is empty despite opposite claim from YouTube, the playlist tab is now marked as having zero items

- A warning dialog now shows when active downloads and user trying to quit

- If a YouTube URL is on the clipboard on application startup, this URL will be loaded automatically

- Sending feedback via the Feedback menu was difficult, if not impossible because of a post build error. Fixed

- Numerous fixes and tweaks here and there.

And finally, a Windows version is now available as well.

I applied a fix to a serious bug introduced in version 0.91. It was not possible to get video results when no browsing history was present – and of course this affected ALL new users!

It took me a while to track this one down, because I did of course have a browsing history…

It seems like some users are experiencing issues with searching – the application simply does not do anything after an URL or search terms has been entered in the text field.

I’m currently investigating this, and I’m having trouble reproducing the issue on my own systems. As I’m deeply dependent on error reports to fix this, PLEASE use the Feedback menu in Tubulator to report the issue.

I can’t believe I did not notice this before, but the video rating star graphics was not shown in the downloadable version of Tubulator, only in the development version. This has now been fixed.
Alas – the stars has arrived!

A couple of issues were fixed in this version:

• Added support for OS X versions lower than 10.6. Tubulator now runs on OS X versions down to at least 10.4.

• Added support for Java 1.5. Java 1.5 is currently the lowest Java version supported.

• 32 bit processor support added (not just 64 bit)

• Fixed download of multiple versions of same video

• Downloaded files are no longer overwritten if same file name

• Video view counts now showing correctly in video panes

• Misc. user interface fixes

It seems like version 0.9 is NOT able to run on 32 bit Intel Macs. Furthermore, it cannot be run on Macs with Java version less than 1.6. I will upload an updated version in one of the following days to cater for this.

It seems like the future requirements will be at least OS X 10.5 with Java 1.5 running on a 32 bit Intel machine. That’s for the Mac version, of course.

Version 0.9 Beta for Mac is now available for download – this is the first public version, which will expire January 27th 2011. After this date, users will have to download the latest (free) update.

Tubulator will be free to use until version 1.0. From then on it will become shareware with a trial period.

Enjoy!

Finally!

The Mac beta version is soon to come – hopefully within a month or so. If anybody out there would be interested in becoming a beta tester on the Mac, please send a note on contact@tubulatorapp.com. Credits will of course be given.

A windows version is planned as soon as the Mac version is proved stable. After that, probably a Linux version.

Oh yeah – perhaps a small presentation is in order. My name is Jan, and I’m the developer of Tubulator App. I started development around june 2010, and have been working hard on getting this project into reality. It started out as a simple terminal application, and has grown big and beautiful since.

A sample screen shot, here searching for Aphex Twin videos and downloading 3 results as MP3 audio:

What makes Tubulator interesting compared to many other “YouTube downloaders” is that it shows related videos and let you browse uploads and favorites of users. This gives a somewhat similar experience of browsing the YouTube site itself – except that you can add videos to a download queue, and enjoy the content (as video or audio) offline, on your phone, MP3 player etc.

I’m using the application a lot myself, so I bet there’s others that might enjoy it as well.