[!WARNING] If the app crashes at start time, please clear app data

v1.4.1

Since the last update broke the app for all Android 14 devices, I was forced to launch this hotfix.

What has been fixed

• The app doesn't crash anymore for Android 14 users
• Added a notification for when the app crashes because of a bad database migration

[!WARNING] If the app crashes at start time, please, clean data.

v1.4.0

Hello to you all guys! First of all thanks for using Spowlo. Developing this app is not easy (and even more the 1.x.x that has a lot of spaguetti code) because of the technical difficulties that implies using Python behind the app for running spotDL. These days I'm talking in the Telegram channel about the future of the app, and I'm really sad since I don't have a clear one. I'm considering creating an evolution of Spowlo (a new app!) with all my most recent knowledgement, making as stable as possible. Since SpotDL downloads from YT Music, my non-developer right hand in this project, Wolf, and the community in the Telegram channel gave me an idea that I think would be nice, and it's to create a YT Music client with the downloader option embedding Spotify metadata. I will open a discuss for this release; I want to hear what you all think.

After this, here are the changes:

What has changed

• Added a new search page with pagination
• Added a crash handler page
• Improved a little bit the app performance and code
• Added the option of splitting folders by artist or playlist

What has been fixed

• The app doesn't crash anymore because of bad API calls
• Audio file sharing from the history page now works

Full Changelog: https://github.com/BobbyESP/Spowlo/compare/v1.3.4...v1.4.0

1.3.4

What has been fixed

• Updated yt-dlp to 2023.7.6 (now the app works xd)

What has changed

• Blocked SpotDL updates so we can focus on the Spowlo remake
• Fixed app not downloading sometimes becuase of dependencies
• Added SpotDL dependencies and bumped up embedded binary to 4.2.0

What has been fixed

• Now the app can download songs (the latest SpotDL update added a new dependency for working, and it has been added in this version)

WARNING

Spowlo is having a remake soon, along with the dowloader library. This will allow us to improve the performance of the app alongside other things. If you want to know more, join our Telegram channel

A little sneek peak

v1.3.1

What has been fixed:

• The download button now works fine (sorry for the inconveniences)

v1.3.0

Spowlo is being remade (another time, yes, but this time way better) with an integrated Spotify client and also the downloader, so stay tuned. Join the Telegram channel for more info and sneak peeks.

This version includes breaking changes with nice new features that will improve the user experience, as well as a better playlist management and a hole UI redesign.

What has changed

• Redesigned the UI
• Now the app has a botton navigation bar that contains the main page, the searcher page and also the tasks page
• THE APP SUPPORTS PARALLEL DOWNLOADS
• Now you can cancel the downloads that you are making (In a preview version but implemented)
• Added a hole new metadata viewer for the searcher page
• Replaced the "Configure before download" dialog (probably will be removed, as well as the main downloader page to be replaced by other one).
• Added a service for being able to download having the app in the background.
• Added notifications with progress
• The tasks page includes support for seeing the hole console output that spotDL makes.
• The app now has an spotDL updater

Closes #25 Closes #18

v1.2.1

What has changed

• The geo bypass function was added to the experimental features options row

Full Changelog: https://github.com/BobbyESP/Spowlo/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1

v1.2.0

🔨 What has changed

• Updated yt-dlp to 2023.3.3 and FFmpeg to 5.1
• Cleaned some code
• Added Spotify Mods Downloader
• Updated SpotDL to v4.1.2
• Reduced a little bit the app size (insignificantly)
• Added Spotify-like theme

⚠️ Warn

This update is something more like a hotfix with some new functionalities. Will work harder in the app the next month since I have exams these weeks. Thank you all!

Colaborators

• @xnetcat For updating the spotDL library

And more people from my Telegram channel!

Added:

• Ability to choose audio provider
• "Don't filter results" option for searching non-common songs
• Languages page (but the languages aren't actually implemented)
• LookupError and YT-DLP error now are shown below the textbox when ocurred
• Bumped up yt-dlp to 2023.02.17
• Updated some UI components

Repo updates

• Added issue and feature request templates

Info

This month I won't be very active since I have very important exams. Hope this update is enough for now. Thank you all!