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jely2002 / youtube-dl-gui

A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
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Unable to download playlists #227

Closed subby2006 closed 2 years ago

subby2006 commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Unable to download youtube or youtube music playlists

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to url bar
  2. Add playlist
  3. Wait until yt-dlg has finished gathering metadata
  4. Playlist entry disappears

Expected behavior The playlist should show with all songs/videos being shown in the download queue

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Additional context Playlist used: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwI2ixhBrYYPpCOQ8jIjRD3_Rgf2j5BCw The app spawns 32 processes of yt-dlg consuming about half of my cpu power my luck with youtube downloaders is bad

jely2002 commented 2 years ago

Hello, thanks for the report. I'm unable to reproduce this on version 2.4.0, can you verify if it is fixed in this version? If the process eats too much resources, try lowering the 'Max concurrent jobs' value in the settings.