TubeSock 3.0 beta 18
October 27th, 2008
Almost immediately upon releasing beta 17 on Friday, we received reports of its success along with many more reports of its total and utter failure. Beta 17 worked fantastic here, so it took us a day to figure out that the problem was only happening on Tiger (10.4), and then another day to figure out what the actual problem was, and that we’d already solved it in TubeSock 1.0 and the working code was already written.
So behold, beta 18. Download TubeSock 3.0 beta 18 here! Please post problems in the comments (don’t forget to include the URL that failed, your OS version, and your CPU type). Our PowerPC Mac is still dead, so we’re especially interested to hear from PowerPC users.
A number of other minor bugs were fixed in this release, including: a bug where Dailymotion videos were improperly titled, a bug in the selection of high-quality videos (if the destination format is FLV, we don’t pull the MP4), and a bug in the creation of MP3 files. Also, for fun and edification and bragging rights, the conversion rate (frames per second) is now shown.
And by the way, all you folks who like to save MP3 files: if you’ve got an iPod, use AAC instead. Much better.
More info on the problem with Tiger here.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Good luck to you guys! We really love TubeSock, so, all your hard work is very much appreciated.
(I sent my experience with beta 18 and YouTube to you in a support email, but, to summarize: Video for Mac works, but mp3 and AAC and Video for iPod (mp4) all freeze at the “Converting file” stage. Am using 10.5.2.)
October 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
The latest beta 18 seems to have solved the mp4 vs. mp3 download problem from YouTube that I experienced yesterday. I installed and tried it on my iMac with Leopard and a couple of gigs of ram and it worked fine. If I come across any other problems, I’ll be in touch. I always thought this was great program and now it’s even better.
max
October 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
This is still just for Macs, right? Any word on when Tubesock for Windows will be functional again? (I’m dying here. . . .)
Thanks!
October 28th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I guys, I downloaded the beta 18 version on my iBook G4 (powerpc) and I’m still coming up with all the videos that I try to Tubesock saying that “File doesn’t Exist”. I’ve tried about a dozen videos. For Example this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5aJDU29ro
I love using Tubesock!, but this is really frustrating for me (and for you I’m sure). Please let me know what I can do to get these videos that I need.
Thanks.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Gary: Thanks for the feedback. I am working on restoring the dead PowerPC today (it’s like 30 screws that have to be removed to get to that laptop drive) and hopefully we’ll soon be able to develop and test on there, and figure out the problem.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Thanks for the update! Glad to see you are keeping it alive.
I assume you saw the new MTV site today. Any chance TubeSock will work with that in the future? There are a lot of music videos there I can’t find on YouTube.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
The new beta is still crashing every time on a PPC Mac. The “File does not exist” message no longer comes up, but a thread crash occurs as soon as it enters the conversion phase.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I tried downloading the beta version, but I figure that it is for Mac users, because I couldn’t get it to work on my pc. Glad to see that you are working on the problem, and hopefully you will be up and running in a few days.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Nice one. it does work! I was quite dissapointed last time coz i can’t download any videos, now it’s working .Thanks!