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The End of Tube AU
I am feeling sad as I write this note to inform our customers of the end of service for one of our most popular apps, Tube AU.
This is not just the end of an app but also the end of an era for our company because our dear friend who is developer and maintainer of this app has decided to pursue a career change. Although we are sad to part ways with him as a member of our team, we wish him every success and happiness in his new career and will forever be thankful for the fun times we had making apps together.
To our customers, we offer a sincere apology, especially to those who have recently purchased Tube AU. If you have purchased the app in the last few months, you can request a refund from Apple through the app store. If you owned it for a longer period of time, then we must apologise even more.
To those wanting more technical detail about why we have removed this app from sale, a few words of explanation are in order. When accessing YouTube via the web interface, YouTube encrypts the URL of the video you are watching. Your web browser decrypts the URL when it runs the javascript on the page. This encryption prevents people from designing third party apps and websites that access YouTube content. Tube AU needs to get the URL of the video in order to send the video to a non-standard video player with audio routing capabilities. The encryption scheme is not very secure but it is complicated and it changes every few weeks, so any app that attempts to decrypt it needs to be updated frequently. Unfortunately, there is only one person we know who has the specific knowledge and skills required to do those updates. We are on the lookout for another person who could do the job, but realistically we don't expect to find such a person.
Once again, our sincerest apologies to our friends and customers.
Comments
Noooooo….it was a great little app which served its purpose. Guess I’ll just have to use other methods of getting my audio snippets from the tubes.
Thanks for the Dear John Letter. Keep up the great work on your other apps.
Thanks for a great app! It was very handy when the right need arose... At the time the app was introduced, there were those of us who understood the hoops Apple was making you go through, and it was unique in that respect I think. You did a great job of keeping up. While there are other "analog" ways of getting the audio from Youtubes, yours was extremely convenient.
Koala's Import Video function is a fantastic way of grabbing audio from YouTube.
Make a screen recording of the section you need from YouTube then just import video from Koala menu. Easy.
Argh, this is very sad as i use Tube all the time… I do appreciate blue mangoo’s transparency and forthrightness. It was fun while it lasted!
Problem with screen recording is audio quality, although I’m not sure if it’s got any better recently.
oh, is there any good alternative to Tube AU?
Beat Time has a “YouTube” function that directs you to their homepage and allows you to download, scrub, alter pitch and speed as well as share to Audioshare.
Web AU App into Neon/Koala would work too.
What about WebAudioPlayer ?
The YouTube function used to work well. Not so much any more unfortunately.
is this the app that doesn't allow to route audio outside of the app?
Surely it can't be any worse than YouTube's compression can it?
Anyway I like to think that my shite quality samples give my tunes a gritty urban flava. A bit like how folks talk about how special 12bit Akai samples sound...
it downloads the video. but that function is painfully slow these days...probably due to changes by youtube.
Well yes, there is that! I probs wouldn’t notice the difference in quality anyway tbf
Thank you for the app, it was fun!
Folks will wax lyrical about that legendary YouTube compression magic in decades to come 😊
Somehow I knew this day was coming. It just seemed too good to be true.
There were many discussions on the forum over the years looking for methods to import audio from YouTube.
It was always “shhh we don’t want YouTube to find out about this” and shut it down.
Tube AU was the perfect solution.
Thanks for the explanation @Blue_Mangoo and for the app while it lasted.
Sad day. For those unaware, besides Koala, Transcribe+ is excellent for ripping audio from screen recordings and it can isolate stems I think with the Spleeter code.
Thanks to you all for being so kind and understanding.
Balls. Really liked this app for sampling dialog and other assorted weird stuff off of Youtube. All good things must come to an end. Best of luck.
Apple Screen Recordings have 16 bit 44.1k Audio. You’re good 😊
google youtube-dl for a desktop replacement. It works very well as a way to grab audio.
For the Mac, BlackHole can route audio out of anything and into anything else. Free and useful for many things.
Damn. Hope some wizard pops out of nowhere and fills in the gap. This was the jelly to Koala’s peanut butter. Thanks Blue Mangoo
Blackhole is indeed great, but youtube-dl will actually download the video file as is, and also convert videos to any audio format you specify. It's also very fast.
Downside is you have to use the command line.
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I know, but I was talking about for live sampling.
I don't sample from YouTube. Ever. But if I did, I doubt I'd bother going the download and extract route.
P.S. Using the command line is a plus not a negative.
@Blue_Mangoo
Same question. I use web audio will anything be affected with that one? I’m guessing this will still work, but not for YouTube anymore? Or since it’s just the audio? I’ll be quiet… lol
Beat Time! Still works... (It's one of those 'Don't Mention IT' apps for YouTube but still...).
https://apps.apple.com/app/id469390635