youtube-dl alternative

[crispyjones]

Your workflow worked for me as well. One thing you might try is to check "forget missing files" on your watchfolder node. If you don't do that FFAStrans "remembers" the file names you put in there already and won't trigger on them if you try them a second time.

[crispyjones]

Just noticed another thing, change the download type to "audio only" in the youtube-dl node. Right now you have audio+video so your workflow is downloading the unneeded video part and taking longer than it needs to. Probably has nothing to do with your original issue, but could speed things up going forward.

[Kwantumm]

Your workflow worked for me as well. One thing you might try is to check "forget missing files" on your watchfolder node. If you don't do that FFAStrans "remembers" the file names you put in there already and won't trigger on them if you try them a second time.

That's really good to know. This most likely will resolve it outright. I'll let you know!

Just noticed another thing, change the download type to "audio only" in the youtube-dl node. Right now you have audio+video so your workflow is downloading the unneeded video part and taking longer than it needs to. Probably has nothing to do with your original issue, but could speed things up going forward.

Yes, I already tried that thinking it might be the problem but that didn't help. Besides, this is quite an old workflow that used to just work as is.
No guarantee I know. Updates can easily break stuff... (cough, Win10, cough).

[Kwantumm]

@crispyjones Setting "forget missing files" checked resolved my problem,thanks!

@emcodem Do I understand from your last post that someone is still working on youtube-dl ? I was under the impression that that was abandoned and we now have to follow a different fork like yt-dlp...

[emcodem]

@Kwantumm
yeah it needs lots of reading but it looks like the responsible guy just said that he is currently unavailable due to personal situation (renovating his house or such) and he totally left open if he returns or not. Currently nobody can work on the original repository as there seems to be only one person who manages the github project... Anyway, looking at the popularity of ytdlp and their efforts in being backward compatible, it might have been the better choice even without the original project to become stalling.

@crispyjones i am really glad to see that you really invest some time here, you notice that you become our new youtube-dl specialist?

[Kwantumm]

Anyway, looking at the popularity of ytdlp and their efforts in being backward compatible, it might have been the better choice even without the original project to become stalling.

@emcodem Not only that but reading through the differences between ytdlp and youtube-dl, Ytdlp has some interesting advancements already. (not that I understand all off them but I'm sure they'll be usefull for someone.

It's suddenly really busy here. Otherwise I would have liked to experiment a bit. Anyway, it's one of our most used features so I'm sure I'll get back to it sooner or later.

For now I'm starting to concentrate on another Workflow I'm sure I'll need your input on at some point...
Thanks so far!

[crispyjones]

@crispyjones i am really glad to see that you really invest some time here, you notice that you become our new youtube-dl specialist?

Thanks happy to contribute where I can. Just want to keep FFAStrans vibrant and working.