YTDLNis setup by Lukas Philips
Last updated : 22/9/2025 (version 1.8.5)
Changelog :
22/9/2025
- v1.8.5
- Preferred audio language setting

14/5/2025
- Initial commit

Downloading (LIKE. EVERY. SINGLE. GODDAMN. TIME. IT. HAD. TO. BE. MANUALLY. SETUP. SERIOUSLY!)
Video
+ Video Quality / Format : 
- 1080P60 (1920 X 1080) AVC1.64002 (claims to be .mp4, but usually returns .mkv in filename)
+ Adjust video options
- Unchecked Save Thumbnail
- Unchecked Add Chapters (checked by default, with no way to disable)
- Unchecked Split By Chapters
- Subtitles :
	- Embed Subtitles enabled (only for videos with English captions and in certain cases like videos without English as primary audio language; else disabled)
	- Save Subtitles disabled (saves subtitle file separately from video file if enabled)
	- Save Automatic Subtitles disabled
	- Subtitle languages set to English (All). (en.*)
- Audio settings left disabled. (rechecking)
- Live Stream settings left disabled.
- SponsorBlock
	- Enabled only for Sponsors & Self Promos. Disable if neither is readily available or not willing to deal with SponsorBlock (and maybe keyframe re-encoding)

Audio (mostly music)
+ Audio Quality / Format :
- Medium Audio M4A (MP4A.40.2) 129.478k
+ Adjust Audio options
- Unchecked Thumbnail Covers
- Unchecked Crop Thumbnail
- Unchecked Split By Chapters
- SponsorBlock : All options UNCHECKED. MANUALLY.

Settings - General
+ Appearance
- Language : English
- Theme : System
- Accents : Material You (>=A12) / any preferred color
- High Contrast enabled for that full turned-off OLED black... or just full black in LCD? (no matter, UI preferences.)
- Hide Thumbnails : All checked
- Modify Download Card : All checked by default
+ YouTube
- Video Recommendations : Disabled
- Data Fetching Extractor (YouTube) : NewPipe
- Formats Source : yt-dlp
- Use Item URL Instead of Playlist URL disabled
+ Misc
- Preferred Locale : United States
- Preferred Home Screen : Downloads, Queue, More, Home (depends on your UI preferences, really)
- Label Visibility : Always
- Preferred Search Engine : YouTube
- Search Suggestions disabled
- Swipe Gestures : All unchecked
- Swipe Gestures in download card disabled
- Use Code Color Highlighter enabled
- Show Terminal in Share Menu disabled
- Show counts in the download queue screen disabled

Settings - Folders
- Audio / Video downloads set to external storage (storage/externalstorage/Download/(Soydio/Soyvid) depending on audio/video file) (or however you like)
- Everything else left stock & untouched I suppose...

Settings - Downloads
- Left stock & untouched

Settings - Processing
+ General
- Use SponsorBlock enabled
- SponsorBlock filtering : Sponsors & Self Promos by default, may be added or reduced depending on content
- Sponsorblock API URL : sponsor.ajay.app (or whatever you got?)
- Enable mtime disabled
- Save Description disabled
- Add Extra Commands enabled (by default)
- Force Keyframes At Cuts : Usually disabled (by default), but can be enabled for strong-performing shitbars, when you don't mind adding several extra hours onto your supposedly 5-30 minute download, if you want a more accurate & less awkward SponsorBlock cut-outs, and/or any combinations of the previous things.

+ Audio
- Embed Metadata enabled
- Thumbnail Covers disabled
- Crop Thumbnail disabled
- Use Playlist Name as Album metadata enabled
- Use Custom Audio Quality disabled
- Preferred Audio Language : English (or whatever original language the video had; leaving it unselected will randomize the audio language)
- Preferred Audio Codec : M4A

Settings - Updating
+ Source
- yt-dlp Source : Master
- Auto-Update yt-dlp disabled

+ App
- Check for updates disabled
- Beta Releases disabled

Settings - Advanced
- Yeah, we're not touching that one yet. No one had invested into the YouTube bullshitry deep enough to even have any kind of thing to do for this.

Settings - Others
- Automatic backup disabled

Other stuff not covered in YTDLNis's options
- Network permission granted
- Unused apps disabled
- Storage permission not granted, as Scoped Storage is enough for >=A10.