Tubular

Tubular’s beta 5 is now ready. We’ve got plenty of improvements this time around, all of them addressing issues that I’ve been hearing about. It doesn’t do streaming yet, but we are working quite hard on getting it to work, because we hate having to wait for the video to load, too.

Here’s what’s new this time around:

• Fixed bugs that caused multiple searches to either crash or fail.
• Fixed bugs that caused some downloads to fail to download or crash.
• Importing favorites from YouTube has been fixed to retrieve all of your favorites, and not just your 10 most recent.
• Added Auto-Sync, to automatically retrieve new favorites from YouTube.
• Fixed the appearance and behavior of the search bar when you type past the width of the field.
• Replaced the unique progress bar with the system-standard progress bar in the conversion table.
• Fixed a number of small bugs and memory leaks.

So give it a shot and let us know what you think. It’s grown a lot more stable since the last time around. To get the update, launch Tubular and choose “Check for updates” from the Tubular menu.

We’re wrapping up work on the beta 5. We’ve been working really hard on fixing the search issues and it looks like they’re gone. Unless there’s a lurking special case that wasn’t caught before, that means no more crashing and you can perform multiple searches. The search box also scrolls properly if you type off the edge of it.

Also, we’ve been working really hard on importing your YouTube favorites. We’ve rewritten the process to get your favorites off of YouTube, and are now able to import all of your favorites into Tubular instead of just the first 10. And, while we were at it, we made it possible for you to keep your Tubular favorites synched to your YouTube favorites (only from YouTube to Tubular, not vice versa yet). It’s been a highly requested feature, and extremely easy to roll in.

It should be coming out sometime this week. We’re trying to wrap up some of the iPod conversion bugs that caused Tubular to crash.