ray hines, To download youtube much faster, you may contact support@allavsoft.com to ask after a customized version.
If you do not check before Automatically Convert to, it will download the original source file. If you do not like the original source video format, you may check before "Automatically Convert to" to select your desired one like MOV, AVI, MPG, WMV, MKV, WebM, MP3, WAV, FLAC etc format.

The srt and vtt are for the subtitles and timestamp of videos. Just keep them in the same folder as the video they go with, when you play the video, the subtitle will automatically appear. If you need the subtitles, you may retain them, if not, you may delete them.

Darr,
Set "Maximum Resolution of Normal Quality" to "2160" "1440" "4K" or else in "Option" - "Preference ..." - "Advanced" tab.
Please click Option -> Preference -> Advanced tab to set it.

David, thanks for the reply. I set it and tried again but it didn't work. The options tab does show 2160p but the downloaded video is still 1080p whether I select Best or Normal to download.

Teddy, Thank you for your support and review.

Masmer, It is our pleasure. Thank you for for your review and support.
In fact, Allavsoft can download playlist from many video and music websites.

Michael, There is no need to enter the log in if you can watch the video or music online without log in. Uninstall it and then reinstall it to test it again or test it on another computer with a different IP or test it 3 days later.
This log in window maybe caused by too many download request.

Jeremy T., There is no need to enter the log in if you can watch the video or music online without log in. YouTube and Crunchroll is still supported

FelixC, Yes it has both downloading and recording function. If the video or music website is not supported, or you need to record the desktop activities, you may click REC to use the screen recorder function.

Emil, We are so sorry that currently we no longer support extension.
There is no need to use the extension.
Simply install and run our Allavsoft and copy and paste the video or music url to Allavsoft to download the download.

Poli Parvanova, Thank you so much for your review and support.

Scott, whether you use this or any other software to download songs from Spotify, be careful that you are not violating their (Spotify's) terms of use as they WILL cancel your account and block you from further use - I know first hand that this is true as it happened to me.

Scott, Yes, this version supports Spotify.

In response to Mike's comment "... Enjoy the free videos until Youtube send you cease and desist notice. Many similar companies to this one had the same working model, they are all gone now. The Copyright clause in those video can derail your fun, be careful ..."

I am guessing that you are referring to software publishers being subject to scrutiny by video publishers.

We here visitors to Giveaway Of The Day are neither software publishers nor video publishers, especially via the GOTD offering here.

Do you have any details relevant to our use of today's giveaway?

What should we as watchers and re-watchers of publicly accessible videos "be careful" of here?

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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Mike,
That's interesting. I regularly use the prior version of this program (3.23), as well as a couple other programs for downloading videos from YT. And I have yet to encounter such a notice. One of the other download programs tends to scarf up adverts, .SRT, & .VTT files etc., mostly unwanted, as if one was fishing indiscriminately with a large trawler net. One of them may haul in the occasional 2K version file, when I'd prefer to top out at 1080P. But, overall, I've been quite satisfied with the performance of AllavSoft downloader.

In response to James's comment "... according to you, stealing copyrighted software is OK and using it without any compensation to the owner of the video is OK also. Where do we draw the line of illegality and stealing someone else's work? The owner of the video expect you to watch it on Youtube and he/she will get compensated for it. Downloading it, is an illegal act ..."

Thanks, but asking folks to not record and time-shift their person in-home experience of a broadcast copyright work has been found to be an extra-legal request, in recognition of our own rights to do whatever we want with anything that lands inside our own homes, such as what arrives on our computer from the Internet.

Mike suggested to be careful, and I asked what to be careful of.

There is nothing in using this software that is illegal.

So, what's to be careful of?

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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@ Mike & James,

They can go ahead and log whatever they like. If I'd prefer to d/l something and watch it on the big screen, as is often the case, I will. This (in effect, time-shifting, as Peter said) is going to fall under Fair Use Doctrine, a la the famous Betamax case. A lot of these videos are promoting something, directly or indirectly hawking something for purchase, or stating some personal issue or cause of the author; many of them are already sponsored, by some company that is touted during the video. In addition, our voted Likes, Channel Subscribes, or ability to make a donation to the content creator via stated Patreon or other such links ought to be regarded as sufficient compensation.

I'm also miffed at having to deal with all the intrusive ads on YT, which until relatively recently were not present on the platform. There have been posted YT videos of hacks for how to entirely bypass these ads on a couple of the major streaming devices: No wait for 5 seconds, No having to hit a "Skip" button. I'm very tempted to implement that also. Are the powers-that-be going to go after the makers of those instructional videos, or after us end-users ? Let them try.

Sean, Thank you for your review and support. In fact, it supports 100+ video and music websites like youtube, facebook, vimeo, spotify, soundcloud, SBS on Demand, Twitter, Dailymotion, nbcnews, CNN, BBC, Acorn TV, ESPN, PBS, etc 100+ websites to MP4, MP3, MOV, WAV, AVI, M4A, WMA etc.

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Sean, as is often the case with audio/video software given away here, this is largely just a GUI frontend on top of a bunch of open source tools.

The video downloading support is providing by youtube-dl, so you can upgrade that functionality for free simply by replacing the copy of youtube-dl.exe in the installation directory with a more recent one, which you can get from https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe .

Actually, now that I've taken a look at this latest version, it looks like they're now using both youtube-dl and it's fork yt-dlp (which is weird because they're mostly the same program).

In any case, this means you may also have to replace yt-dlp_x86.exe to fully upgrade the downloading support. You can get that from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases .

Jim Stone, freshly installed yt-dlp_x86.exe is 2021.10.10 while current from the GitHub repository is 2021.12.01 and the yt-dlp_x86 -U self update switch threw error:

ERROR: can't obtain versions info. Please try again later or Visit https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest

youtube-dl.exe as installed is 2021.06.06 while current is 2021.12.17 quite a significant difference!

Apparently youtube-dl had some problems and have had to make some changes which may be why the 2021.06.06 also fails to self update via the -U switch too... the current 2021.12.17 versions youtube-dl.exe -U works when run from an admin cmd shell.

I suspect the yt-dlp fork was used due to the difficulty youtube-dl had earlier in the year https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/

The current yt-dlp fork still does not -U self update. ANd both are not just open source tools which are normally still copyright protected by GPLv3 or LGPLv3 etc these tools are openly Public Domain with no restrictions upon use so are legit to use in closed source and even unattributed, unlike FFMPEG which at best could be LGPLv3 but is usually GPLv3 and often non-redistributable because of non-free components being compiled into it by the closed source GUI developers.
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David, thanks for the info, and because I encountered the issue about a year ago, I had already purchased the lifetime upgrade and still remain very satisfied with Allavsoft downloader.

David,
I wasn't able to find the licensing information for the lifetime purchase. Is it one PC? Two PCs? One household? (I would be installing it on my main PC, which is a desktop from 2007!)

Sean, Thank you for your purchase and support.

In response to James's comment "... you think that Youtube will stay idle while people steal copyrighted videos, think again, every download is recorded via IP address, even if you use a VPN to hide the tracks. Youtube invented the tracking software and every visit to them is logged, recorded and what is being downloaded and by whom (time and date stamped and the title of the video). I know this because a friend of mine used to work for them few years back ..."

Thanks, but asking folks to not record and time-shift their personal in-home experience of a broadcast copyright work has been found to be an extra-legal request, in recognition of our own rights to do whatever we want with anything that lands inside our own homes, such as what arrives on our computer from the Internet.

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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