7 Get in the queue
One of the most useful features in the app is queuing. You
don’t need to wait for one download to finish for another one to
start, and you can pause if you’re on a rubbish connection and
resume later when you’re on something with better download
speeds. That’s handy for really big files. The app shows you each
clip’s duration, size and the current download speed for each one.
8 Download smarter
Chances are the quality settings you use for one video or
audio download are the same you want for other ones too, and 4K
Video Downloader’s Smart Mode enables you to tell it the quality
settings you’d like to have for each download. It thengivesyou
one-click downloads at the quality of your choice; ifyourchosen
option isn’t available you’ll get the next best available.QQ5
Get the music
If you just want to download the sound from a video, 4K
Video Downloader can do that. It’s useful if you’re downloading a
presentation to listen to on the bus, or if the video’s just a lyric
video for a song (although as ever, make sure you have
permission to download). Click on the drop-down menu that says
‘Download Video’ and select the ‘Extract Audio’ option.
3 Return to the app
Once you’ve copied the clip address, return to 4K video
downloader. You should now see a little red play button on the
green Paste Link button. This means that 4K Video Downloader
recognises the address you’ve copied and is ready to do
something with it. Click on the Paste Link button and you should
see this window, which may stay on your screen for a little while.
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Pick your format
Sound quality here isn’t brilliant: 128k MP3s are OK for
speech but they aren’t fantastic for music. Unfortunately, 4K
Video Downloader can’t download what isn’t there, and 128k
is the highest audio quality for many YouTube clips. What you
can do, though, is select the audio format: you can choose
between MP3, M4A or OGG.4 Choose your file quality
The ‘parsing...’ window was telling you that the app was
finding out what download options are available, which it then
shows you in the next window. Here we can see that we have a
choice of formats ranging from the frankly rubbish QCIF format
up to 720p High Definition. You can also change the format from
MP4 to MKV or change the filename and download location.Explore
Download YouTube videos
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