music-dl/changes.md

Changelog

Version 0.7

• Tidal:
  • Added a new search mode for the service to retrieve the top rated tracks of a provided artist. The sintax is top://artist.
  • In the settings dialog, you can control wether Albums, compilations and singles will be added when searching by artist (by using artist://...).
  • When searching by artists, results that belong to an album will be numbered.
  • Downloads will be tagged with title, album, artist and track number provided by tidal.
  • It is possible to download an original version in high and low quality. Before, those versions were encoded to mp3 from an m4a file. Now the M4a file can be retrieved by ticking the checkbox in the tidal settings page.
• YouTube:
  • Fixed search algorithm for Youtube videos.
  • Updated Youtube-Dl to version 2020.6.16.1
• re-added VK module. By default, this module searches up to 50 results but you can increase it up to 200 if needed from the services settings.

Version 0.6

• Added a settings dialog for the application, from this dialog you will be able to find some general settings, available for MusicDL, and service's settings. Every service defines certain specific settings.
• When searching in any service, the search should be performed without freezing the application window.
• When transcoding to mp3, the default bitrate now will be 320 KBPS instead of 192.
• When downloading, besides the status bar, there is a progress bar which will be updated with the results for the current download.
• From the settings dialog, it is possible to switch between all available output devices in the machine, so MusicDL can output audio to a different device than the default in windows.
• Added a new and experimental extractor for supporting tidal.
  • Take into account that this extractor requires you to have a paid account on tidal. Depending in the account level, you will be able to play and download music in high quality or lossless audio. MusicDL will handle both. Lossless audio will be downloaded as flac files, and high quality audio will be downloaded as transcoded 320 KBPS mp3.
  • There is a new search mode supported in this service. You can retrieve all work for a certain artist by using the protocol artist://, plus the name of the artist you want to retrieve. For example, artist://The beatles will retrieve everything made by the beatles available in the service. The search results will be grouped by albums, compilations and singles, in this order. Depending in the amount of results to display, this may take a long time.
• Due to recent problems with mail.ru and unavailable content in most cases, the service has been removed from MusicDL.
• YouTube:
  • Fixed a long standing issue with playback of some elements, due to Youtube sending encrypted versions of these videos. Now playback should be better.
  • Updated YoutubeDL to version 2019.6.7
  • Now it is possible to load 50 items for searches as opposed to the previous 20 items limit. This setting can be controlled in the service's preferences
• zaycev.net:
  • Fixed extractor for searching and playing music in zaycev.net.
  • Unfortunately, it seems this service works only in the russian Federation and some other CIS countries due to copyright reasons.
• Updated Spanish translations.

Version 0.4

• Fixed an error when creating a directory located in %appdata%, when using MusicDL as an installed version. MusicDL should be able to work normally again.
• Removed VK from the list of supported services for now.
• MusicDL will no longer set volume at 50% when it starts. It will save the volume in a settings file, so it will remember volume settings across restarts.
• Added an option in the help menu to report an issue. You can use this feature for sending reports of problems you have encountered while using the application. You will need to provide your email address, though it will not be public anywhere. Your email address will be used only for contacting you if necessary.
• changes in Youtube module:
  • Updated YoutubeDL to latest version.

Version 0.3

• MusicDL is built with two different Python versions, for supporting older operating systems. If the version 0.2 works for you, you don't need to do anything. If that version never worked for your system, you may try MusicDL built with Python 2.
• Added new translations: Russian and Serbian.
• Fixed a bug introduced by keystrokes for changing position while using MusicDL with NVDA.
• Included a logger system. Now everything will be recorded in a file called info.log, useful for reporting issues. Bear in mind that the file will be flushed every time MusicDL starts.
• If you're using an installed version, MusicDL will create a folder called MusicDL in %appdata%, for saving settings in future and logs for now. If you're using a portable version, the folder will be called data, and will be created in the application directory.
• Changes in VK.com module:
  • Fixed a bug that was making musicDL unable to search with spaces.
  • In results, artist name is also included whenever extraction of such information is possible.
• Changes in Youtube module:
  • Updated Youtube-dl to version 2018.3.26
  • You can paste a youtube link (link to video) and MusicDL will put the result in the list.
  • You can paste a playlist link and MusicDL will place the first 50 results of the playlist in the results.