[Bug]: Downloader not downloading

[chartransekitten]

Preflight Checklist

• I use the latest version of YouTube Music (Application).
• I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
• I understand that th-ch/youtube-music has NO affiliation with Google or YouTube

YouTube Music (Application) Version

3.11.0.0

Checklists

• I use the portable version of the YouTube Music Application.
• I can reproduce this issue in the official version of (WEB) YTM.

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 11 23H2 22631.5909

What CPU architecture are you using?

x64

Last Known Working YouTube Music (Application) version

No response

Reproduction steps

1. Enable Downloader Plugin
2. Use the context menu or go to the plugins > Downloader and click Download playlist (with that sometimes downloading the songs)

Expected Behavior

It should Download the songs as mp3

Actual Behavior

Appears with an error saying "Argh! Apologies, download failed...
Error: y[...] is not a function in (artist - song name in this case being ALI LOST IN PARADISE)

Enabled plugins

1. Ad Blocker
2. Album Cover Theme
3. Ambient Mode
4. Blur Navigation
5. Bypass age restrictions
6. Discord Rich Presence
7. Downloader
8. In-App Menu
9. Music Together
10. Navigation
11. Notifications
12. Performance Improvements (Beta)
13. Picture-in-Picture
14. Precise Volume
15. Synced Lyrics
16. Taskbar Media Control
17. Video Toggle

Additional Information

It was working after I updated to the newest version (being 3.11.0.0) but as of now it doesn't work for any version for me

[Garv12322]

Same started fro me today..

[chartransekitten]

Same started fro me today..

Yeah same for me too

[nickelvis]

Same for me too, and I'm quite new to this GitHub thing

[AlterTjempo]

The strange part is that it’s not consistent across songs. A few tracks download just fine, but most of them fail with the error:

Error: y[...] is not a function in {song name}

By pure trial and error (opening a playlist and testing each track), I managed to get two songs to download successfully. So there seems to be some kind of alternative code path that allows certain songs to download, but I can’t figure out why only a few work while most don’t. Could it be a difference in the API response?
I did note that when starting the download it said: infinite% or NaN% before normally starting at 0%

P.S.
I suspected it might be caused by an old config file, so I deleted mine and restarted the application. No luck. the issue persisted.

[Gdeneme]

same error

[chartransekitten]

The strange part is that it’s not consistent across songs. A few tracks download just fine, but most of them fail with the error:

Error: y[...] is not a function in {song name}

By pure trial and error (opening a playlist and testing each track), I managed to get two songs to download successfully. So there seems to be some kind of alternative code path that allows certain songs to download, but I can’t figure out why only a few work while most don’t. Could it be a difference in the API response?
I did note that when starting the download it said: infinite% or NaN% before normally starting at 0%

P.S.
I suspected it might be caused by an old config file, so I deleted mine and restarted the application. No luck. the issue persisted.

Yeah that's why I said sometimes because I can go to a playlist that has 177 songs and only get 6. Though about the infinite% and NaN% For me it just says Downloading then instantly fails.

[johanCarmine]

I have the same error

[skywolfxp]

I can confirm that this is happening with youtube-music-3.11.0.x86_64.rpm

[chartransekitten]

I can confirm that this is happening with youtube-music-3.11.0.x86_64.rpm
Which is fedora if I'm correct so good to know it's happening on not just Windows.

[skywolfxp]

I can confirm that this is happening with youtube-music-3.11.0.x86_64.rpm

Which is fedora if I'm correct so good to know it's happening on not just Windows.

Yeah this is most probably not a client-error, however if I'm not mistaken, I was receiving this error on 3.10.0 before updating to 3.11.0, not sure what the app does on the backend to initiate the download, but could be that something changed on some server probably...

[chartransekitten]

I can confirm that this is happening with youtube-music-3.11.0.x86_64.rpm

Which is fedora if I'm correct so good to know it's happening on not just Windows.

Yeah this is most probably not a client-error, however if I'm not mistaken, I was receiving this error on 3.10.0 before updating to 3.11.0, not sure what the app does on the backend to initiate the download, but could be that something changed on some server probably...

Though it works for some songs.

[Extrepa]

Still having problems downloading. I haven't been able to get it to work with any playlist on Mac OS.

[rabid-sausage]

Created an account to write what I've seen, but do believe YTM have done something on their side, as there is noise from other projects with the same issue.

My laptop (Slackware) was working fine (no errors at all), but today when I booted my desktop (Slackware) I started to get the error on the desktop only. Tried to look to see what the difference between the two was, but not much luck, then stupidly I let battery go flat on the laptop.

Reboot in to Windows 11 on the laptop, fire up the software (think 3.7 ver as I hardly use Windows) and it gave errors too , but not the y[...] one, upgrade to 3.11 and now get the y[..] error.

EDIT - a Red Herring, had the desktop version pointing to the wrong folder so it was trying to download all songs. any download gives the error.

Reboot the laptop to Linux (Slackware) which I'm on now and 3.11 is working-ish, desktop (Slackware) 3.11 still giving errors? I say working-ish as on the laptop is only gives the error if its tries to download a song that is not already saved, where-as the desktop gives the error for new and existing songs.

The issue is the same for downloading individual songs, playlist and automatic downloads.
The build of my laptop and desktop in Slackware is pretty much the same, but there could be subtle difference that I am not noticing.
I think If I had not had to restart my laptop it would have continued to work without issues.

[jazdian]

I'm getting the following error when downloading a song using the Download plugin: "y[...] is not a function (song name)". I installed the "YouTube-Music-3.11.0.AppImage" package on Ubuntu Linux. But now, even downgrading to older versions like 3.10.0 or 3.9.0 doesn't work anymore.