You have many different programs and services at your disposal if you want to download videos from the popular video portal Youtube. There are web browser add-ons, bookmarklets and desktop applications that can all download Youtube videos. Some can only download one video at a time while others provide a more sophisticated solution to queue and download multiple videos from Youtube.
Tubequeue – as the name suggests – is of the latter sort. It is a standalone software program for the Windows operating system that can not only download multiple videos from Youtube but also convert them into different formats so that the videos can be transferred to other devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players or gaming consoles.
The program works the following way: The user begins by entering a search phrase in the search box at the top left corner of the program. This will display 100 Youtube videos related to that search query. It is possible to sort the results by relevancy, data added, popularity or view count just like on the Youtube website. The Youtube videos are displayed with a small image thumbnail, names, ratings and playing time. A click on the right arrow key will open the selected Youtube video in a preview window where it can be watched. The second possibility to find Youtube videos is to use the Youtube website search instead which will basically display the Youtube website in the program window.
A right-click on one or multiple videos in the list makes it possible to add the selected videos to the processing queue. This will move these videos to the conversion settings pane where the user can select an output format. Formats offered included avi, mp4, mov, mp3 or mpeg with the option to keep the original flv format.
A click on the Add To Processing Queue button will move the videos once again. This time to the processing queue where all information and settings that have been selected so far are shown again. A click on Download / Convert will start the Youtube video download and conversion process.
It is possible to add Youtube urls and video formats that already reside on the local computer system to the queue as well. TubeQueue is an interesting software program to download and convert multiple Youtube videos in short time. It has some performance problems during video playback and does not cope well with videos that are not available in the user’s country. It is a rock solid program otherwise though. TubeQueue requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5.
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Hello, I am the author of this program.
1) Thanks for reviewing it!
2) Can you elaborate on the issue you were describing (videos in another country?)
Thanks!
Andrew
Andrew. Some videos, be it if they are opened by opening a link from a friend, website or at Youtube directly cannot be watched in certain countries. Your program gave an error message after some time but added a blank line to the conversion queue. This happened when I tried to add some of the results from Youtube Search. I have not investigated this further though.
hi andrew,
great looking program!
please consider adding this feature- allow to search by users and d/l all favorites of a user
@Martin — Oh, I see. Fortunately the country issue is not a show-stopping problem, you know? It would seem like that is beyond my control. Is there even a way to access videos outside your country (besides using a proxy?) It would probably be difficult to access it programatically, but if you have any ideas, tell me.
@yiosh — I will add this to the todo list for version 1.56. Thanks for the suggestion.
Andrew I did not mean that it was a problem that it was not possible to download the unavailable videos. The problem was how the application handled them.
Yep, I understand. The blank line in the list will probably be fixed in a future version.
Once again, thank you for reviewing!