Existing users, 
Seatubes
Batch download YouTube files wih optional format conversion.
Version: 1.2.6
Needs work to be worth buying
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Tim McNamara Thursday, February 07 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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.
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Needs work to be worth buying - versiontracker2007
All of which confirms that Seatubes needs work to be worth buying, because if the document/URL/list stuff you mentioned is not intuitively clear from the beginning, then it needs to be. ie: don't blame the user for not understanding badly designed UI or paradigms.Monday, June 09 2008 @ 01:42 AM PDT
Needs work to be worth buying - Joe_Pagliaro
I'd like to clarify that the "import" feature is doing exactly what it is supposed to: it imports all video URLs found on the given URL, i.e. multiple URLs are expected. This is appropriate because one of the goals of Seatubes is to facilitate batch downloading and monitoring.
As an internet application "flakiness" can be due to your internet connection, or other factors such as the format of the video (which may be SWF.) I can't be sure, but if you contacted me by email we could discuss this in more detail and maybe I could offer suggestions to help you out.
The problem you have with the user interface seems to be due to not understanding what a "document" is. The "document" is not the file or files downloaded, but rather the list of URLs that appear in the window, and settings or other data specific to that list and window.
Seatubes, in fact, is one of my more popular utilities:
http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities.html
When you register Seatubes you are in effect registering all the above utilities, many of which can be used in tandem.
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Saturday, March 15 2008 @ 07:43 PM PDT