Version 0.2.0

Version 0.2.0
25 November 2014

• Auto detect terminal window size
• Transcode audio to MP3 and other formats (requires ffmpeg or avconv) (#55)
• Enabled da and dv commands for playlist search results
• Added dapl and dvpl to download YouTube playlist audio/video
  by url/id to a separate subdirectory (mtahmed) #110
• Progress indicator now works with mpv (previously only mplayer)
• Added option to show system notifications (Alex Nisnevich) #95
  (can be used with libnotify - notify-send on linux)
• Added overwrite true/false option for downloads (mtahmed) #93
  (skips download if downloaded file already exists)
• Added copy to clipboard feature #97
  (requires python xerox module and xclip on linux or pywin32 on windows)
• Remux audio downloads for better file compatibility (#135)

[Bugfix] - Accept two-character length usernames (#99)

[Bugfix] - Expand ~ character in download directory setting (punchagan)

[Bugfix] - Don't truncate filename (YoussF) #122

[Bugfix] - Exit with correct status code

Version 0.01.46

Version 0.01.46
May 18 2014

• Added c to view comments for a video
  (first 50 comments, no reply-comments)
• Added feature to match album tracks using MusicBrainz (vixus0)
  To search albums, enter "album" optionally followed by album title
• Custom formatted search result list using "set columns" command
  Optionally shows: rating, likes, dislikes, views, user, date, category
  and comments (number of) in search results
• Added "set order (relevance|views|rating|date)" command for
  specifying search result ordering
• Added "set console-width" for setting output width (default 80)
• Added uploaded date in video info display (request #64)
• Added likes / dislikes in video info display

Version 0.01.44

Version 0.01.44
Mar 27 2014

• Added max_res config item for selecting video resolution (request 56)
• Added window_size and window_pos for selecting size / position of player
• Improved handling of playlist file read/write (issue 66)
• Revert to lower quality on unavailable/corrupt streams (issue 65)
• Enabled multiple invocation commands (comma separated) (request 61)
  Eg: mpsyt //the doors, 1, shuffle, 1-3-a, quit
• Improved url caching
• Added shuffle command (no arguments, shuffles displayed items)
• Handle 'video not available in your country' during multiple downloads
• Fix UnicodeDecodeError in mplayer progress parsing (issue 58)
• Fix UnicodeEncodeError under Windows with Python 2.7 (issue 59)

Version 0.01.41

Version 0.01.41
Mar 14 2014

• new configuration option, max_results - sets number of returned results
  (1 - 50)
• pl now accepts YouTube playlist id's as well as url's
• Fix error in download of .m4a files when mplayer is set as player.
• Added option for downloading multiple items
  eg. da 1-4 or dv 3,5,6

Version 0.01.40

Version 0.01.40
Mar 11 2014

• Bugfix release, corrects UnicodeDecode error

Version 0.01.39

Version 0.01.39
Mar 10 2014

Features:

• Added time / progress bar indicator. Big thanks to Thomas LÉVEIL!
  (mplayer only)
• Added command to retrieve YouTube user playlists;
  userpl {username} or upl {username}
• Added command to retrieve related videos; r{number}
• playurl now respects -f, -w, and -a flags (fullscreen, window or audio)
• Implemented input history persistence (uses readline, linux only)
• Implemented non-interactive mode for command line invocation with playurl
• Implemented less interactive mode for command line invocation with dlurl

Changes:

• // or .. prefix to search for YouTube playlists (was plsearch / pls)

Help / Documentation:

• help will show relevant help topic page e.g., help dlurl
• Documented configuration options ("set" commands)
• Re-authored some help categories
• Changed help to help , removed menu from help pages

Bugfixes

• mplayer / mpv window now displays content title instead of url
• Fixed issue with Python3 terminal output on playback ctrl-c interrupt
• Fixed issue with debug mode not logging to file
• Changed year format in YT playlist result screen to last two digits.
  (Under some environments it was showing 4-digit years)

Version 0.01.38

Version 0.01.38
Mar 5 2014

• Added i{number} for YT playlist information display
• Added stream url preloading for first item of opened YT playlists
• Added last-updated date to YT playlist search result list
• Fixed UnicodeError when run in non-UTF8 environments
• Added more verbosity to --version command line option
• Added --debug command line option (logs to {tmpdir}/mpsyt.log)

Version 0.01.37

Version 0.01.37
Mar 2 2014

• Excluded YouTube paid videos from search results
• Added "pl {playlist url}" command to open YouTube playlist url
• Added "plsearch {query}" command to search for YouTube playlists (or pls {query})
• Added "dump" command to show entire YT playlist (useful for saving locally)
• Added "undump" command to undo dump (re-paginates YT playlist items)
• Added "u {number}" command to list uploads by uploader of {number}
• Added "url {YouTube url}" command for retrieving a specific YT video
• Added "playurl {YouTube url}" command for directly playing a YT video
• Added "dlurl {YouTube url}" command for directly downloading a YT video
• Changed command to list user uploads, new syntax is "user "
• Added mpsyt --version flag for printing version info
• Added mpsyt --help flag for printing help text
• Fixed indentation bug when scrolling through readline history

Version 0.01.36

Version 0.01.36
Feb 27 2014

• Wait for preloading item if it is selected while preloading
• Fix bug where -a audio override is sometimes ignored

Version 0.01.35

Version 0.01.35
Feb 25 2014

• Faster opening of audio streams with mpv
  (--demuxer-lavf-o=fflags=+ignidx argument added for m4a streams)
• Faster opening of audio streams with mplayer
  (reject m4a streams, prefer ogg streams)
  (fallback to video stream and suppress video when no ogg available)

This releases fixes an annoying bug in mpsyt which caused long delays when playing many audio items. It was due to mplayer and mpv seeking through the entire stream before commencing playback.