Seatubes - 1.2.6

Now that version 1.2.5 has overcome the recent changes at YouTube (HURRAY FOR JOE!) there remains one problem that can make Seatubes appear not to work. This is when a video in a list you have created has either been yanked from the YouTube site (typically for copyright infringement) or it has a warning connected with it that requires some action before can view it. When Seatubes runs into one of these videos it simply stops. It gives no error message. It is up to you to figure out what is going on. Hopefully Joe will at least provide an error message when this occurs (hint hint).

Examples:

(1) I had a list of Appallin' Palin videos to laugh at in my old age. One of them was from Saturday Night Dead of Tina Fey's brilliant portrayal. I had saved the list then came back to it another day. During the duration, NBC had the video yanked because of copyright infringement. This video was at the top of my Seatubes list. So when I asked Seatubes to download the entire list, it did nothing. It just sat there. So I deleted the Tina Fey video and now the list worked fine.

(2) As a total Pink Floyd addict I wanted to download the orgy scene from the film Zabriskie Point. ;-) But darn! Seatubes was downloading a list for me then stopped dead at that video! So I copied out the URL from Seatubes then deleted it from the list, hit the Download button again and all was well. I then took the URL over to Firefox to use the DownloadHelper extension to grab it. Aha, "This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users". So I hit the "Confirm Birth Date" button, up it came and the grabbing commenced, of the video that is.

Seatubes is a wonderful program. Or at least it was. Apparently, Google changed something on the YouTube site to disable Seatubes. Consequently, the program no longer works. Seatubes' developer is aware of the problem & has made an effort to fix the program, but so far, has not been able to do so. The problem lies with Google. Unfortunately, the consequences fall upon Seatubes.

I really like Seatubes. Unfortunately, it is true that it no longer works... which is too bad. It did a beautiful job downloading a whole bunch of YouTube videos at one time.

I hope that a workaround is successful because I would love to use it again.

I used Seatubes for the 8 day test period to download several videos from YouTube. It worked but not without flakiness and interface problems. The interface itself seems poorly thought out. Adding a URL is not intuitive and the buttons don't work as expected. Sometimes trying to import a single URL into Seatubes results in the application spontaneously importing a bunch of URLs that were not what I wanted. When closing the application it asks if I want to save the document "Untitled" even though the downloaded file has already been saved and is playable. There are too many rough edges and akwardnesses for it to be worth buying the application. For my use, TubeTV is a better product with a more intuitive and simpler interface.

I've been using Seatubes for a bit now and find that it works very well. I do a lot of batch downloading from YouTube and very rarely run into a problem.