v1.13.0 - Glow Up 🌟

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📝 Release Notes

This release introduces an all-new out-of-box experience, adds UI support for cookies and subtitle languages, and includes many other improvements and bug fixes.

💌 Out-of-Box Experience

When you open the app for the first time, a "Get started" dialog will guide you through the setup.

If yt-dlp is already installed in your system PATH, the app will automatically use it and skip the intro.

🚧 Preset Breaking Change

Starting with this release, specifying a container alone (without a format) will pass --merge-output-format <container> instead of -f <container>. This change was necessary to allow --merge-output-format to be used without custom arguments. Unfortunately, this may break your existing user-defined presets. Make sure to check them after upgrading.

Kudos to @astering for reporting this bug in #177!

🔗 Video Link as Command-Line Argument

You can now launch the app with a video link as the first command-line argument, and it will be automatically pre-filled in the UI. (#162)

🍪 First-Class Cookies Support

You can now configure the use of cookie files and the extraction of cookies from browsers directly in the interface. (#218)

🌐 Subtitle Languages

You can now pick which subtitles to download by language. Recently used languages are remembered and are easily accessible in the drop-down menu. (#204)

🕹️ Ease of Use

Ever confused by the buttons being grayed out? Say no more! With this release, the interaction logic around buttons has been greatly improved. You can now even type out a nonexistent download folder and have the app create it for you. (#179)

🪄 General

• The UI is now more responsive to different window sizes.
• The log viewer is now resizable. (Changeable height of the log #205)
• Added "Show in folder" buttons for easy navigation.
• Improved the folder selection experience.
• Log files can now be enabled in settings.
• Auto-generated subtitles are now properly embedded into the downloaded file. (Checking Default and Auto-generated doesn't download both types of subtitltes. #201, Add the ability to embed subtitles into the created video file #203)

📦 Packages

Filename	Build type
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows-arm64.7z	.NET 9 - Windows ARM64 self-contained
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows-arm64.zip	.NET 9 - Windows ARM64 self-contained
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows-x64.7z	.NET 9 - Windows x64 self-contained
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows-x64.zip	.NET 9 - Windows x64 self-contained
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows-x86.7z	.NET 9 - Windows x86 self-contained
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows-x86.zip	.NET 9 - Windows x86 self-contained
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows.7z	.NET 9 - Windows Any CPU framework-dependent
youtube-dl-wpf-v1.13.0-windows.zip	.NET 9 - Windows Any CPU framework-dependent

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