This release is a major overhaul compared to previous versions. It contains a better search algorithm that also supports genres, besides artists, albums and song titles. Try searching for bluegrass or rnb.
The user interface has received a complete refresh. It’s now more modern, flatter and generally cleaner. Fonts can be zoomed with common keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl++, Ctrl–, Ctrl+0 to reset). Lyrics are bigger and more readable. The toolbar now appears on the bottom of the window but can also be moved on the top by dragging it.
Musictube now streams only audio when video is hidden so it’s even lighter on resources.
Starting from this release Musictube requires a subscription of €9.99 / year. I’m trying to keep my apps sustainable and I think this is the only way forward. Subscription can be managed on PayPal or on the Mac App Store. Also the license per platform is gone and now buying Musictube gets you a code valid for all the supported platformed.
Users that bought Musictube less than a year ago don’t need to do anything for now. I hope old users will decide to support further development and keep this little app alive.
I had to rush this release because Google restricted the Youtube API only to manually approved projects. And their terms forbid any other viewer apart from their own.
So I ported Minitube to use the Invidious API. Linux users will not need a Google API key anymore. So I guess this is an enhancement for them. Donations are welcome (hint hint).
Playback issues have been fixed and new YouTube resolutions up to 4K added. The new multimedia backend is MPV as in my other apps.
Artist images are now taken from the Discogs API as Last.fm dropped this functionality. Musictube 1.9 supports macOS Mojave Dark Mode and generally better supports dark themes also on Windows and Linux.
This new version of Musictube brings many refinements and bug fixes.
On Windows and Linux the menu bar is now hidden by default. A Chrome-like toolbar menu contains the few items that are not readily available in the UI. If preferred the menu bar can be easily restored by choosing “Toggle Menu Bar” (ALT).
I whipped up a new, more colourful icon. Let me know what you think about it!
For 1.6 I focused on polishing and refreshing Musictube visuals so it looks at home on the latest OS X & Windows 10. Musictube is now fully HiDPI (aka Retina Display) compliant. Musictube got a new icon, more flat and hopefully more recognizable.
A bug has been fixed that prevented resuming playback after pausing the music for more than a minute or so.
The search autocompletion popup is back, so just type the first few letters of the artist name and accept a suggestion.
This release features significant updates in the libraries used by Musictube. It took a while but I finally managed to port Musictube to Qt 5 (I’m shipping the brand new Qt 5.7 on Mac & Windows builds). LibVLC has been updated to 2.2.4, Phonon to 4.9.0.
Starting with this version I’m dropping 32bit Linux packages. Hopefully everybody has moved to 64bit Linux nowadays. On the Mac, Musictube now works from 10.7 and above, dropping 10.6 support.
As usual, updated translations are contributed by users on Transifex.
It’s starting to get hot here, I think I’ll go for a swim with the kids at Lago di Vico. Have fun with Musictube!
A few days ago Musictube stopped working because of an error in the Last.fm API. Last.fm is in the process of migrating to a new infrastructure and is having many issues. This is a quick fix release that works around the invalid XML currently served by the Last.fm API. Have fun with Musictube!
