After way too long of a wait, the 7th beta version of Tubular has been released. Expect an email over the weekend for details. Some of the new things in this release include:
- By popular request, a back button on the horizontal bottom bar
- Several performance enhancements to resizing the window, scrolling the table, and downloading and converting videos
- Changed the bottom bar to be black. If it’s disliked, we’ll change it back, but we’re experimenting a bit
- Refined the behavior of the resize thumb on the bottom bar to behave better and be more responsive and accurate
- Numerous small fixes
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Nick Said
at 3:24 pm on July 1, 2007,I just downloaded and installed Tubular Beta 7 on my new MacBook Pro, and noticed a number of bugs.
First off, when I first ran Tubular, there was a dialog box asking if I wanted “Sparkle Test App” to check for updates on startup. I assume that “Sparkle Test App” is supposed to be Tubular, but I could be wrong…
I can’t say that I like the black bottom bar. The blue color for the buttons and text in the bottom bar is really eye-jarringly ugly.
Waiting for videos to load completely before playing still sucks. Bring back streaming video.
I didn’t have a video iPod before I got my iPhone, so I never saw the need to really test the iPod video conversion function, which is a large part of the software. It is FULL of bugs for me. The first video I converted for iPod didn’t alert me when it finished converting, the progress bar just kept cycling. After finally closing out of that conversion (and noticing it was in iTunes), I tried to convert a second video. After the conversion was complete, the progress bar kept cycling, and the audio for the first video I converted started playing in the background. I clicked around, but couldn’t get to the video at all to turn it off. Finally I pressed the ugly blue arrow button in the bottom bar and it snapped me back to a black screen and killed the audio. The second video was never added to iTunes at all, and I can’t find it anywhere. Subsequent attempts to convert just result in “Conversion Complete” appearing immediately, and no video is added to iTunes.
Overall, the nearly two month wait for a new version of Tubular added very little to the program, and there are still lots of bugs that need to be fixed. Since I will be using the iPod video conversion on a regular basis now that I have an iPhone, I need to have that feature working correctly.
Peter Said
at 7:56 pm on July 4, 2007,Wow. My receipt for this shows November 2006. Tubular still crashes on me, even with a preferences reset. Talk about vaporware.
Si Brindley Said
at 7:54 am on July 9, 2007,Hi Phil.
The new version runs and returns search results, but crashes when it starts to download video.
Steve Streza Said
at 8:23 am on July 9, 2007,For the crashing bugs in Tubular, are you running the Safari 3 beta? It replaces a system-wide framework that Tubular uses a lot to do the downloading of the video files.
GCarden Said
at 7:54 pm on July 10, 2007,Yeah, I have the Safari 3 beta and Tubular crashes on EVERY video I try to play.
I also ran into a bug where the “Do Not Modify” invisi-window was the only window that could be selected. I had to restart the program to get it working properly.
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