Set the default generic_mode to True in the config manager and update GUI initialization to distinguish between a missing config and an explicit False. Replace usages of `ConfigManager.get(... ) or False` with a None check so that an explicit False value is respected. Changes made in ytsage/utils/ytsage_config_manager.py and GUI initializers in ytsage/gui/ytsage_gui_main.py and ytsage/gui/ytsage_gui_dialogs/ytsage_dialogs_settings.py.
For playlist downloads, treat an item as completed if a file was created even when the downloader returned a non-zero code. Emit 100% progress for such cases and update the status to "download.completed (with some errors)" when return_code != 0, otherwise keep the normal completed status. This avoids reporting false failures for playlist items that produced output despite errors.
When downloading playlists, add --ignore-errors and --no-abort-on-error so a single failure won't stop the entire playlist download. Also normalize values stored in the version cache: coerce version_info to a string (or empty string) and path to a string or None to ensure consistent types when reading/writing cached tool metadata.
Downloader: add detection for "Auto-generated" subtitle selection and only append --write-auto-subs when an auto-generated subtitle is explicitly chosen (prevents always enabling the flag when any subtitles are requested). GUI: update subtitle label to display the number of selected subtitles when >0, falling back to the zero-selected message otherwise. Small UX and behavior fixes in DownloadThread and AnalysisMixin.
When building the output template for single-file downloads, remove any playlist-specific preamble (e.g. '%(playlist_index)s - ') from filename_part. Adds a regex-based substitution to clean up leftover playlist_index placeholders so single downloads don't get playlist-style prefixes in their filenames.
Enhance playlist export output for Text and CSV formats. Text files now include a numeric index, a title fallback ("Video N"), and a human-readable duration ([H:MM:SS] or [MM:SS]) when available before the URL. CSV export adds a "Playlist Index" column and writes a formatted title with index and duration. Duration parsing is protected against non-integer values. M3U and JSON export behavior unchanged.
Add two new localization keys across multiple language files: "remember_settings" (cookie dialog) and "private_video" (download/error message) to inform users about remembering cookie settings and private videos. Also fix minor formatting in en.json (split combined line for open_folder/save_playlist/reset). Updated locale files: ar, de, en, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr, zh.
Restore cookie configuration on startup when previously active and the user opted to remember them. If config indicates a file source and the path exists, set cookie_file_path; if browser source, set browser_cookies_option. Treat missing "cookie_remember" as true by default. If the user did not opt to remember cookies, reset cookie_active to false. Added logging for restored settings and initialization state.
Introduce a "Remember Cookie Settings" QCheckBox to the cookies UI (label uses gettext key "cookies.remember_settings"). The control defaults to True when no prior setting exists and applies custom styling for the indicator and text. Its toggled signal is wired to ConfigManager.set("cookie_remember", checked) so the preference is saved immediately (avoiding dependence on an Apply button), and the value is also saved when the dialog persists other cookie settings. Uses the "cookie_remember" config key for storage.
Update AnalysisThread error handling to detect yt-dlp stderr containing "Private video" or "Sign in". For those cases, emit a localized errors.private_video message and log a specific private-video error; otherwise preserve the existing generic ytdlp_failed behavior. Playlist visibility signals and early return remain unchanged.
When downloading playlists, avoid reusing a specific format_id from the first item (which can fail for subsequent videos). For audio-only playlists, use yt-dlp's bestaudio fallback; for video playlists, respect a provided resolution by extracting the height and applying -S res:<height>, otherwise fall back to bestvideo+bestaudio/best. Invalid resolution strings are caught and logged, and revert to the dynamic best-quality fallback.
Update and improve translations for multiple language files (ar, de, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr, zh). Key changes include localized strings for playlist saving ("Save Playlist As" -> localized), save/result/error messages, concurrent connections and help text, default selection/settings (video quality and subtitle language), and various wording/typo fixes. Also add/translate FFmpeg installation and yt-dlp setup messages in Turkish and Chinese. No functional code changes.
Translate several UI strings in ytsage/languages/fr.json from English to French: update `save_playlist`, `filter_playlist_placeholder`, and a group of settings strings (`concurrent_fragments`, `concurrent_fragments_help`, `defaults_settings`, `default_video_quality`, `default_subtitle_language`, `defaults_help`) to provide correct French localization and improve consistency.
Improve localization by updating translations in ytsage/languages/es.json and ytsage/languages/hi.json. Spanish fixes provide full translations for interface help text, restart notice, playlist/save labels, dialog placeholders, and playlist save messages. Hindi adds translated strings for concurrent connections, related help text, and default selection settings for video quality and subtitles.
Translate several UI strings in ytsage/languages for German (de.json) and Hindi (hi.json). Changes include localized labels for saving playlists and filtering videos, dialog placeholders, and various settings text (e.g. concurrent connections and default selection help in German). Hindi updates add translated playlist save dialog messages and related UI strings.
Add new localization keys across multiple ytsage language JSONs. Common addition: "filter_playlist_placeholder" added to most languages. Spanish, Turkish and Chinese receive several new strings for custom commands, proxy settings, FFmpeg installation messages, history loading, time/placeholders and validation messages. Also ensure files end with newline. Files modified: ar, de, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr, zh.
Replace entry.get('file_size', 0) with entry.get('file_size') or 0 in HistoryDelegate (ytsage_dialogs_history.py) to treat None as 0. This prevents TypeError when comparing None > 0 and ensures file size formatting/display only occurs for positive sizes.
Add a new "save_playlist" entry (placeholder "Save Playlist As") to multiple locale JSON files (ar, de, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr, zh) to provide a translation key for saving playlists. Also adds the required trailing commas when inserting the new entries.
Add new localization keys across multiple languages to support default selection settings and playlist saving UI. New keys include defaults_settings, default_video_quality, default_subtitle_language, defaults_help, and playlist save messages (save_as, save_success_title, saved_successfully, save_error_title, no_videos_to_save, save_error_msg). Files updated: ar, de, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr, zh.
Update English locale with new UI strings for playlist saving and default selections. Adds 'save_playlist' and related save messages (save_as, save_success_title, saved_successfully, save_error_title, no_videos_to_save, save_error_msg), adds default selection settings keys (defaults_settings, default_video_quality, default_subtitle_language, defaults_help), and documents the %(playlist_index)s variable in filename_format_help. Also minor formatting cleanup in the file.
Introduce a Save Playlist UI flow: import QFileDialog, group playlist action buttons into a horizontal layout, add a new "Save Playlist As" button with styling and visibility control, and connect its click to a new save_playlist_to_file method. The new method prompts for a save location and supports saving playlist_entries in TXT, M3U, CSV, or JSON formats, shows success/error message boxes, and logs exceptions. Also wire the existing playlist visibility signal to control the save button and adjust layout placement for the playlist buttons.
After populating the format table, read default_video_quality from ConfigManager and attempt to auto-select a matching video format (by resolution/height). If a matching video format is found it is checked and handle_checkbox_click is invoked to trigger selection side-effects; if not, the first (highest-quality) format is selected as a fallback. Existing visibility filtering via filter_formats is still applied afterward.
Introduce a "Default Selection Settings" group in the Download Settings dialog to let users specify a default video resolution (height) and default subtitle language(s). Adds labeled QLineEdit inputs with placeholders and explanatory help text, uses localized strings for labels, and persists values to ConfigManager under keys "default_video_quality" and "default_subtitle_language" when saving.
Load user's default_subtitle_language from ConfigManager and preselect matching manual or auto-generated subtitles on analysis load. Handles comma-separated strings, checks against available_subtitles and available_automatic_subtitles, and updates the selected subtitles list. Attempts to update the UI label and button state (with style refresh) inside a try/except to avoid errors during initialization.
Add video id to the default output filename template across the downloader and settings UI. The template was changed from "%(title)s_%(resolution)s.%(ext)s" to "%(title)s_%(resolution)s_[%(id)s].%(ext)s" in ytsage_downloader.py and ytsage_dialogs_settings.py (including placeholder and reset behavior). This helps avoid filename collisions and makes downloaded files easier to identify.
Update default filename_format to append the video id as _[%(id)s] before the extension, improving uniqueness of generated filenames and preventing collisions when multiple videos share the same title and resolution.
Format table: when in playlist mode and the format has a video codec, prefix the quality and (when available) resolution with "≤ " to indicate an upper-bound. Resolution is only prefixed if it's not "N/A".
Main UI: replace the old checkbox-list lookup with scanning the format_table rows to find the checked checkbox widget, pick the correct resolution column depending on playlist mode, strip any leading "≤ " and use that as the selected resolution. This fixes resolution selection for playlist entries and ensures the displayed "≤" semantics are handled when extracting values.
Previously the code assumed the height was always the second value in the "WxH" resolution string. This change splits the resolution into parts, verifies there are two components, and uses the smaller dimension (min) as the height to correctly classify vertical videos. Also avoids potential index errors when the resolution string is malformed.
Add new i18n keys "concurrent_fragments" and "concurrent_fragments_help" to multiple language JSON files (ar, de, en, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr, zh). These expose a UI option for the number of concurrent connections per download with a help string (default: 1, warns about throttling/temporary blocks). Strings were added in English across locales and may need translation.
Introduce a new config key 'concurrent_fragments' with default value 1 in ConfigManager defaults. This exposes a setting to control the number of concurrent fragment downloads/processing, preserving single-fragment behavior unless overridden by user configuration.
Read concurrent_fragments from ConfigManager (defaulting to 1) and forward it into the DownloadThread constructor so the download fragment concurrency setting is propagated to the downloader.
Add a concurrent_fragments parameter to DownloadThread (default 1) and store it as an instance attribute. When building the yt-dlp command, include a -N <concurrent_fragments> option and log the concurrent connections. Also emit finished_signal upon cancellation and on error paths to ensure the UI is notified of thread completion. Minor comment/logging clarifications added around command construction.
Add a "Concurrent Connections" section to DownloadSettingsDialog with a QComboBox (1–20) and help text; initialize from ConfigManager("concurrent_fragments"). Introduce get_concurrent_fragments() to return the chosen value (with a safe fallback to 1) and persist the setting on dialog accept. Uses localized labels and minor styling for the help label.
Add "tab_general", "tab_format", and "tab_file" entries to multiple ytsage/languages/*.json files to provide localized labels for the UI tabs (General, Format, File). Also include a minor formatting/newline fix in en.json.
Reorganize the Download Settings dialog into a SmoothTabWidget with three tabs (General, Format, File) and move existing group sections into corresponding tab layouts. Import QWidget and SmoothTabWidget, increase dialog minimum width from 450 to 550, and add stretches for better layout spacing. Overhaul the dialog stylesheet to restyle tabs, frames, group boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, combo boxes and item views (borders, paddings, colors, radii, hover/selected states). Also style OK/Cancel buttons to match the Custom Options dialog. These changes improve the dialog's visual consistency and UX while preserving existing settings controls and behavior.
Document Audio Normalization (EBU R128) in README and translated READMEs, and add corresponding localization keys and help text in ytsage language files. Updates include README.md, readme-translations (ar,de,es,fr,hi,id,it,ja,pl,pt,ru,tr,zh) and ytsage/languages JSON files to explain the feature and note that normalization requires re-encoding and forcing a specific audio format (e.g. MP3 or M4A).
Introduce an "audio_normalization" option across the app and implement normalization for audio-only downloads. Updates include: add config default (ConfigManager), new language strings, settings UI checkbox + help text and logic to auto-enable force-audio-format when normalization is enabled, and persist the setting. Pass the setting from main app to DownloadThread, and in the downloader force re-encoding to mp3 when necessary and append --postprocessor-args ExtractAudio:-af loudnorm=... to apply EBU R128 normalization. This ensures normalization works reliably (avoids ffmpeg stream-copy errors) and keeps the behavior scoped to ExtractAudio postprocessor.
Add a new "check_app_updates" translation string to multiple language files so the UI can display the option to check for YTSage updates at startup. Updated languages: ar, de, es, fr, hi, id, it, ja, pl, pt, ru, tr, zh.
Introduce a new "check_app_updates" configuration (default: true) to allow users to enable/disable automatic YTSage update checks. Adds a styled checkbox to the Updater tab with getter, loads the setting (defaults to enabled for older configs), and saves it from the custom options dialog. The main update check now respects this setting and will skip checking when disabled. Also include English localization entries for the new UI strings.
Introduce a "generic_mode" option to allow validating/downloading from non-YouTube sites and wire it through the UI, config, and validation logic. Key changes:
- Add generic_mode default to ConfigManager and persist setting from DownloadSettingsDialog (checkbox + help text).
- Extend validate_video_url to accept a generic_mode flag and allow any http/https URL with a domain when enabled; pass this flag from Analysis and Download flows.
- Update YTSageApp to load/save generic_mode, update URL placeholder and settings tooltip behavior, and refresh tooltip when settings change.
- Improve robustness in FormatTableMixin: handle None/incorrect types for format_note, abr, resolution, ext, and codec values to avoid type errors and ensure consistent display.
- Add localization entries for generic mode, placeholder, and related help text across multiple language files and update the in-app default localization strings.
These changes enable broader site support via yt-dlp while hardening UI format handling and keeping user settings persistent.
Update AboutDialog link markup to remove explicit font-size and font-weight styles and to unify link color. The author and repo links no longer set font-size, and the sponsor link color was changed from #ea4aaa to #c90000 (and its font-size/weight removed) for consistent appearance across links.
Add a styled '❤️ Sponsor' GitHub Sponsors link to the About dialog (ytsage_dialogs_base.py). The change creates a QLabel with an external href to the sponsor page, enables openExternalLinks, and appends it to the info layout so the About dialog displays a sponsor call-to-action.
Normalize PyPI's version string (e.g. "2026.2.21") to the zero-padded GitHub tag format (e.g. "2026.02.21") before building the update target. The code splits a three-part version and pads the month/day components with two digits so stable@<tag> matches yt-dlp GitHub tagging.
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