In the next article we are going to take a look at Playlist-DL. This is an interesting GUI application to search, browse, play and download YouTube playlists from the desktop quickly and easily. Next we will see how we can install this program in Ubuntu and how we can download our favorite Youtube playlists.
Playlist-DL will allow users to search, view and download playlists from YouTube with just a few clicks. The users we can select different formats, and the quality in which we want to download the media and then play them. We can also download one of the videos that we find in the playlist at the highest available quality.
This program comes with a built-in Youtube browser, which allows users to play any video without ads. This browser is focused on privacy and is very fast, and this is going to achieve this by blocking all unnecessary javascripts and other things that bloat the default YouTube page, with which they track the user in search of targeted advertising.
Playlist-DL general features
- This program is not free. Offers a limited trial period of just a few days.
- It has a integrated search option of playlists on YouTube.
- We can also download only audio in more than 10 formats. These formats include; mp3, aac, m4a, vorbis, opus, flac and wav.
- The program allows video download in MP4 and MKV containers, and it will offer us the ability to specify the download quality of the video and audio that we want, using intuitive user interface controls.
- Allows selection of videos from playlists.
- We will find a capable online video player included in the program.
- Support of discharge multi-threaded.
- Is going to give us the possibility to resume our downloads at any time.
- As well has an online YouTube browser included with adBlock.
- This program will offer us light and dark theme support.
These are just some of the features of this program. They can consult all of them in detail from the project's GitHub repository.
Install Playlist-dl on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users and other systems they may use snap packages, We install this program very easily. We will only have to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and execute the command in it:
sudo snap install playlist-dl
Once the installation is finished in our system, we can start the application looking for the launcher that we should find available in the team.
When it starts, the program will tell us what you need download search engine to be able to search the videos. We will have to click on the button "OK".
A little look at how you can download a Playlist using Playlist-dl
The procedure to download playlists with this program is very simple. Users are only going to need search from the program screen, or we can also pass the URL of the list to the search bar that we will find in the program.
After passing the URL or the search term, it will be presented to the users on the screen the content of the playlist, listing all available videos. In it we can select the videos to download or play.
From there, users will be able to select the videos that we are interested in downloading. After that, we will have the option to choose our download preferences, as they are:
- El download type: audio or video.
- La audio and video quality we want to download.
- La location where the download will be saved performed by the program.
Once the download is finished, it only remains to find the downloaded file in the location we select.
uninstall
Remove this program from our team It is as easy as opening a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and executing the command in it:
sudo snap remove playlist-dl
This program that may be liked by many, offers an application to download playlists through an easy-to-use GUI available for Gnu / Linux desktops. It can get more information about this program at project's GitHub repository.