Youtube MP3 Podcaster

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Zyl on Nov. 21, 2011 · permalink

On some videos the slider for the bitrate does not react and it reads "**0 X 0**" below it. What should that tell me? That I broke the plugin? That's also when "Duke" will always show up and cannot be set to disappear. Can still obtain the MP3 without problems, though.

The whole little GUI of this is really not conform to user-expectations:
- Slider does not react unless mouse directly over it.
- Slider does not look like it usually does in my OS.
- '?'-Icon is a link although it has no hover-effect/link-behaviour - it's also really large.
- Icon next to adress bar makes no sense (a red donkey or something) - why can this not be disabled?
- It's not clear how the selection made through that menu icon relates to the current setting of the bitrate-slider.
- When there is nothing to download, that menu icon will pop a tiny empty context menu that looks like I broke something. Icon should be greyed out instead.
- Animated GIF is horribly annoying.
- Speech bubble is hella exotic graphical element that simply looks inconsistent with everything else.
- You're wasting vertical space.

Nonetheless, this plugin does the job very well. The downloaded MP3 often is of better quality than the audio in the video on highest quality. (Are you a wizard?)