Devlog 37:

I am very close to shipping now. I added the Spotify status/progress update messages, so now you can see when the tracks have finished downloading. I also fixed three (kinda major) bugs. First of all there was an error when searching for the songs on YouTube/YouTube Music. Basically what happened was that the title didn’t follow the same ASCII conventions that was used by YouTube. Because of this the app would reject good title matches even though they were the same. This produced quite a few errors, especially when trying to download songs with apostrophes. The second error I fixed was the some songs would automatically have the clean version downloaded. To fix this I switched to the ytmusicapi python package. This package also returned whether the song was explicit or not. Because of this I was able to check whether or not the song was intended to be that way, and if not I could prevent that match from being downloaded. I did have to edit a few functions to accept the new format, but in the end everything worked. Third I fixed a simple error that messed up the searching. This time it wasn’t really a bug, but instead an edge case that I missed. I was catching keywords like “feat.” and “featuring”, but I didn’t catch words like “From (and tv show, etc.)”. Because of this some matches were getting left out. I fixed this by adding another regex pattern that removes this as well.