Tube Downloader Free is the counterpart to “Free YouTube Downloader” and “Free YouTube to Mp3 Converter” on PC and allows you to download videos as well as the accompanying audio files, so it’s really practical for all those of us who like listening as well as “watching” music.
The accessed portals are:
• YouTube
• Google Video
• and last but not least DailyMotion
I have to confess that I tend not to fall back on the latter two, as YouTube usually provides everything one would normally search for.
The videos are stored as Mp4 and are well cropped on my Magic’s screen.
The quality of the downloads largely depends on the quality of the uploaded source material. A music video of good quality is at least 15-17 MB.
A preview of the videos can be viewed before you download, and from time to time this should be taken advantage of before you waste a lot of traffic and time, as the quality of the videos does vary quite strongly. Also, there are – unfortunately – a few jokers on YouTube who insert an image of an original video as a thumbnail… but after downloading a 15 MB folder you are then left with two giggling girlies who want to prove how well – or not – they can sing the new Rihanna single.
Furthermore, you can read the information related to a video stored on YouTube.
When it comes to downloading songs the process is similar to that of downloading videos, the difference being that you can chose between the average quality of an MP3 and the high quality of an AAC. Whilst reviewing the app I found the MP3 quality to be totally satisfactory.
Those of you with really sensitive ears should probably go for AAC… but, as I said, my botchy ears couldn’t detect much of a difference ;-)
During the testing period I did notice two things I found fault with:
1. Downloaded videos and songs are sometimes not immediately viewable in the gallery or media player. Even though this doesn’t come down to technical issues related to the app it’s still kind of annoying. There are, however, three solutions to this problem: you can reboot, you can establish a connection via USB or you can use ReloadSD-Widget, which tricks your phone into re-reading your SDcard.
2. Tracks are listed as folders with the names of the videos. Tags aren’t transferred, but I find that I can live with that.
Bottom line:
This app is not only appealing to scrooges and skinflints—it’s for anyone who enjoys music videos freebies… and that’s quite a few of us!
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