Downloading wrong language

[corbin-lounsbury]

Recently, some videos in a subscribed channel are randomly downloading the Spanish language versions of the videos when I am wanting the English version. There's nothing in the settings that I can see that would make that the default.

The channel uploads their videos in English as the original and Spanish as dubbed.

The channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JaredOwen

Videos that are downloaded in Spanish:

https://youtu.be/rKp4pe92ljg

https://youtu.be/0-oQRSViZQE

https://youtu.be/GkI_2yiIb48

[meeb]

Thanks, I'd not seen this previously so I would assume I need to add some language selection flag.

[ryjogo]

I just realised about 1500 videos of my subscibed channel are not in spanish :( any eta on this ?

[mckayc]

I am noticing the same issue as well. Especially with the more popular Youtube channels where they upload multiple languages, it almost never downloads with the English audio. It looks like Youtube-DL has a way to specify the language, so I would think it would be possible to do here as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/114624f/how_to_choose_audio_language_for_youtube_video/

[davidkylenz]

The ability to select the language would be nice, I’m starting to see a few channels supporting multiple language audio tracks and it never downloads the English variant.

[mylogon341]

Same here. The latest Mark Rober video downloaded the Spanish dub. It would be good to be able to set the default language as a flag somewhere in the UI, ideally on a global level.

[meeb]

Thanks for the reports everyone, I'll look into adding this as an option and default to English when I get time this week.

[bawitdaba]

Thanks for the reports everyone, I'll look into adding this as an option and default to English when I get time this week.

I was able to modify utils.py to accomplish this, setting English to default. I added line 170 and lines 186-190. Tested with a Mark Rober video and it re-selected the correct audio track. This basically ignores any audio track with a - in the ID where the note doesn't contain English.

I also have a block of code in here to do the same with skipping (Premium) resolutions.

[irishj]

Thanks for your code @bawitdaba, worked a treat for me with Mark Rober's videos also :)

Attaching the modified file here for anyone else who wants to use it, without having to manually add the code themselves.

utils.zip

The extracted file needs to go into /app/sync

Cheers

[meeb]

Thanks! The premium skip looks fine. Defaulting to English with no dynamic option probably isn't sensible for everyone though. Do you want to add a PR for the premium skip section?

[frob]

Defaulting to English may not be the best solution but it is likely an 80% solution.

Looking at the UI for youtube it looks like, maybe, original is the correct default option. All the multi-language videos I found marked the language as "English original"

Turning this into a PR would be good. Then work could be done on adding a flag to the UI for downloading a preferred language with original being the fallback.

[meeb]

Sounds good. I just meant the defaulting to English shouldn't be in the PR. If you create PR for the rest of it I'd be happy to review it.

[corbin-lounsbury]

Hello! Is this still in the pipeline to get worked or has it been resolved? I'm not seeing anything different in my instance

[jsclifford]

I would like to see this fixed as well. I can't download any Mark Robber Videos. The audio language ranges from Russian, to Spanish, and even French. Is anyone working on this.

[tack32]

This is amazing because I searched for "replay media catcher downloading wrong youtube language ". I didn't mention Mark Rober in the search. I immediately came upon this thread in it. I was trying to download a Mark Rober video today and even though it played on YT in English, which I want, it downloads in Spanish. I'm actually using replay media catcher and haven't tried the program you're talking about here. I wouldn't know how to do that code mentioned above but hope a solution can be found. Thanks.

[djismgaming]

For now, you can use the file from @irishj post (fix originally provided by @bawitdaba).

If you use docker compose you can put the file alongside your compose.yaml and reference it like this in it:

    volumes:
      - ./utils.py:/app/sync/utils.py

[Catchwa]

I added in the patch via docker and triggered a re-download of an existing video with the wrong language, but I still get the same issue. Do I have to delete the whole channel rather than an individual video?

me@nas:~$ sudo docker exec -it tubesync grep -nC 11 "and not 'ENGLISH'" /app/sync/utils.py
170-    format_id = format_dict.get('format_id', '').strip().upper()
171-    format_full = format_dict.get('format_note', '').strip().upper()
172-    format_str = format_full[:-2] if format_full.endswith('60') else format_full
173-    format_str = format_str.strip()
174-    format_str = format_str[:-3] if format_str.endswith('HDR') else format_str
175-    format_str = format_str.strip()
176-    format_str = format_str[:-2] if format_str.endswith('60') else format_str
177-    format_str = format_str.strip()
178-    is_hls = True
179-    is_dash = False
180-
181:    if '-' in format_id and not 'ENGLISH' in format_full:
182-        vcodec = None
183-        acodec = None
184-        height = 0
185-        width = 0
186-
187-    if 'PREMIUM' in format_full:
188-        vcodec = None
189-        acodec = None
190-        height = 0
191-        width = 0
192-