2025.5.4

This release contains many new features and many bug fixes that benefit all Parabolic users.

Full Changelog 📃

• Added the ability to use video formats for audio file downloads
• Added the ability to specify Worst for a video/audio format
• Added the ability to specify None for a video/audio format
• Added the Use Part Files option to downloader settings
• Added the Documentation help menu item in the Qt app
• Changed the folder path delimiter in batch files from ';' to '|'
• Fixed an issue where thumbnail conversion failed for some videos
• Fixed an issue where the wrong quality was chosen for downloads with preferred codecs
• Fixed an issue where audio files were outputted with low quality
• Fixed an issue where progress of downloads using aria2c was not displayed correctly
• Fixed an issue where playlist downloads caused the app to crash on Windows
• Parabolic should now provide users with error messages instead of crashing the entire app
• Parabolic will now pause slightly during downloads to prevent users from being banned by services such as YouTube (Users should not see significantly longer download times however)
• Tweaked the GNOME user interface as we get closer to joining GNOME Circle
• Updated yt-dlp to fix YouTube format errors

Install 🧑‍💻

GNOME (Linux only)

Flathub

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.nickvision.tubeconverter
flatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter

snap-store:

sudo snap install tube-converter

Manually (x64 only)

• Download the org.nickvision.tubeconverter.gnome.flatpak file from the assets below
• Run flatpak install org.nickvision.tubeconverter.gnome.flatpak from the directory containing the .flatpak file
• Run flatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter//master to start the app! (You should also see it in your app grid)

Qt

Windows (x64 only)

• Download and run the NickvisionParabolicSetup.exe file from the assets below

Windows (Portable) (x64 only)

• Download and extract the NickvisionParabolic_V2025.5.4_Windows.zip file from the assets below
• Run org.nickvision.tubeconverter.qt.exe

Linux (x64 only)

• Download the org.nickvision.tubeconverter.qt.flatpak file from the assets below
• Run flatpak install org.nickvision.tubeconverter.qt.flatpak from the directory containing the .flatpak file
• Run flatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter//master to start the app! (You should also see it in your app grid)