Musik v1.3.0
This release restores complete YouTube audio streaming and track downloading
following recent YouTube player API and bot-detection changes, integrating
modern stream extraction and self-contained binary bundling.
Highlights
• Restored reliable YouTube audio playback with dedicated yt-dlp integration
for MPV, eliminating HTTP 403 Forbidden and VideoUnavailableException errors.
• Enhanced audio track downloading with real-time percentage progress reporting
and automatic stream resolution.
• Added automatic tool discovery and background bootstrapping for external
streaming dependencies.
• Updated YoutubeExplode to 6.6.1 for updated metadata, search, and playlist
parsing.
• Bundled yt-dlp into the release installer package for a 100% self-contained
out-of-the-box setup.
Interface and reliability
• Maintained smooth IPC-based volume control, seeking, and pause/resume during
online stream playback.
• Retained offline local music library support, lyrics synchronization, and JSON
settings backup/restore.
• Improved fallback mechanisms for streaming and track downloading.
Updating
Existing installed copies can update with:
musik update
New users can download and run Musik-Setup.exe from this release.
Windows notice
The installer is not currently code-signed. Windows SmartScreen may show an
unknown-publisher warning. SHA-256 checksums are included with the release.
