guillevc/yubal v4.0.0

🕐 v0.4.0 — Playlist sync

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This release introduces scheduled playlist sync — subscribe to playlists and let yubal keep them updated automatically on a cron schedule.

✨ What's New

• Playlist subscriptions — Register playlists to sync periodically with configurable track limits (#33)
• Cron-based scheduler — Set your preferred sync schedule (e.g., 0 3 * * * for daily at 3 AM)
• Unicode filename support — File and folder names now preserve special characters (e.g., Björk instead of Bjork) (#44)

🔧 Improvements

• Format selection optimization — yt-dlp now prefers the configured codec when selecting source streams, avoiding unnecessary transcoding when the source is already in the desired format (#48 by @ergosteur 🚀 )
• Update yt-dlp to latest version — Fixes YouTube extraction failures caused by recent player JS changes (yt-dlp/yt-dlp#15818)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Cookie authentication — Fixed failures with large or space-containing cookies.txt files, and improved validation with clearer error logging (#30, #47)

⚠️ Heads Up

File and folder names now preserve unicode characters instead of transliterating them to ASCII. For example:

Before: data/Bjork/1997 - Homogenic/01 - Hunter.opus
After:  data/Björk/1997 - Homogenic/01 - Hunter.opus

If you have existing downloads for artists with non-ASCII names, re-downloading or syncing will create new folders alongside the old ones. Check your library and merge any duplicates after upgrading.

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v4.0.0