OpenTubeX/OpenTubeX v0.37.0-nightly-2474

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More improvements

• Queued videos now show their length, music badge, views and upload date like playlist videos. A ⋮ menu moves or removes them, and dragging slides the other videos aside. (#2331)
  
• Removed the "Match top bar with main color" setting, which made the header hard to read with many themes (#2338)
• Added configurable SponsorBlock submission shortcuts, with ; to start or end a segment and ' to open the submission menu. (#2351, #2356)
  
• The buttons below the video are easier to tap on touch screens (#2364)
• Quick Settings now start with playback speed and watch history instead of language, region, main color and thumbnail size. If you never customized Quick Settings, you get the new set automatically. (#2370)
  
• DeArrow now has its own section in Add-ons settings, and SponsorBlock's excluded channels only appear while SponsorBlock is enabled. (#2371)
  
• Player settings are now grouped into sections, and long select labels are no longer cut off (#2378)
  
• The date, views and category below the video now use icons, like video cards. (#2389, #2393)
  
• Tooltips now use your theme's colors, font and corner rounding instead of the plain system style (#2392)
  
• F-Droid, SideStore, Flatpak and FlatPark listings now show what's new in each stable release, and the deb, rpm and AUR packages include it as their changelog (#2402)
• Dragging the seek bar knob shows a strip of frames around where you'll land, and fullscreen swipe-to-seek now shows the same seek bar preview instead of a popup in the middle of the screen. (#2391, #2409)
  
• Round icon buttons, such as Share, Refresh and the download actions, now use soft tinted backgrounds instead of bright filled circles with shadows (#2420)
• On Android, links from other sites shared with OpenTubeX now open with yt-dlp, and video links from popular sites such as Instagram, TikTok and Reddit can open directly in the app (#2407)
• Show verified and official artist badges, YouTube's search spelling corrections, the music credited in a video, shared community posts, information panels under videos, hashtag video and channel counts, and a Music tab on Trending (#2421)
• On Android, syncs now finish while the app is in the background, changes made while it is hidden reach your other devices without reopening it, and returning to the app no longer shows a false "Sync failed: timed out" message. (#2432)

Fixed bugs

• Pinching on Android no longer zooms the app interface with WebViews such as Vanadium (#2326, #2328)
• With the custom title bar, middle-clicking the empty tab strip opens a tab again on Windows, maximized Settings no longer puts buttons under the window controls, the screen's top edge reaches the tabs of a maximized window, and the window controls no longer cover a Full Window video on Windows (#2327, #2329)
• Android: Fullscreen entered by rotating the phone stays on when the next video starts (#2332, #2333)
• The resolution menu lists every codec a video is available in, including ones your device can only decode in software, such as AV1 on GPUs without AV1 decoding. (#2335)
• Keep video tab titles when a channel loads behind the video, and restore channel names when returning to their pages (#2340)
  
• Fixed missing comments and video descriptions when Android restores an open video at startup. (#2336, #2339)
• Fixed repeated player reloads, videos failing to load without thumbnail previews, and broken channel lists when video or TV-show details are incomplete. (#2349)
• Fixed comment sorting and reload buttons looking enabled while offline. (#2346)
  
• Retry timed-out stream format checks before completing playlist preloading. (#2343, #2348)
• Fixed overflowing playlist thumbnail controls with a three-dot menu for reorder and remove actions. Playlist videos now show icon-labeled metadata like the queue and retain available view counts. Playlist positions appear in the top-left corner of each thumbnail. (#2342, #2347)
  
• Fixed unnecessary SABR player reloads caused by split stream headers and limited buffering of oversized stream responses. (#2355)
• Fixed gray watch-page action icons so they use the light or dark theme foreground color. (#2352, #2354)
  
• Videos played through Invidious no longer show a false age-restricted badge (#2366)
• Fixed Load More on Home stopping after 96 videos, downloaded playlist videos streaming online after Next, missing Shorts notifications on Android while the app is closed, missing notifications for channels outside the active profile, SRT files with dot timestamps failing to load, playlist searches carrying over to the next playlist, Yattee error toasts on videos with comments turned off, and hidden windows not returning from the macOS Dock. (#2367)
• The description's "...more" and copy buttons no longer show through the share menu and other video toolbar menus (#2374)
  
• With theatre as the default viewing mode, chapters, the transcript and SponsorBlock open below the video again when the watch page has no sidebar (#2373)
  
• Swiping between tabs on the app bar no longer makes the incoming page jump to a different scroll position on Android (#2365)
• Subscribing to a channel no longer opens its subscription settings when you only have one profile. (#2377)
• The player preview in Customize interface now shows the center play button and the player menu while playing, and matches the compact controls and menu on phones and narrow windows (#2376)
• Videos on Android and iOS no longer wait up to 25 seconds for a SABR countdown before they start playing. (#2395)
• On narrow screens, the buttons below the video now split into one row per group instead of wrapping with a stray divider (#2397)
  
• Android: yt-dlp playback works after a fresh install even when GitHub limits update requests, because the app bundles a current yt-dlp and updates it without GitHub's rate-limited API (#2398, #2399)
• Tab Organizer previews on Android no longer miss channel banners and avatars that load after the page. (#2403)
• Fixed Android downloads and other yt-dlp features disappearing when the saved download history file was empty (#2405, #2408)
• Videos now start when YouTube's assigned media server doesn't respond, for example an unreachable cache at your internet provider, because OpenTubeX switches to the backup server YouTube names (#2401)
• Volume, brightness and speed indicators appear over the video instead of the middle of the screen when the queue or another side panel is open in fullscreen (#2390, #2394)
• Links in update release notes open in your browser again, and imported settings, backups and remote content are handled more safely. Download templates and the IP block recovery script are no longer exported, backed up or synced (#2425)