[Bug]: Download plugin has a high failure rate

[Zynax1]

Preflight Checklist

• I use the latest version of YouTube Music (Application).
• I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
• I understand that th-ch/youtube-music has NO affiliation with Google or YouTube

YouTube Music (Application) Version

3.9.0

Checklists

• I use the portable version of the YouTube Music Application.
• I can reproduce this issue in the official version of (WEB) YTM.

What operating system are you using?

Ubuntu

Operating System Version

24.04

What CPU architecture are you using?

x64

Last Known Working YouTube Music (Application) version

No response

Reproduction steps

Enable the downloader plugin and attempt to download a playlist.

Expected Behavior

All songs in the playlist would download without issue.

Actual Behavior

Many songs fail to download, only a few successfully download.

Enabled plugins

• Downloader
• Discord rich presence
• In-app menu
• Navigation
• Performance improvement
• SponsorBlock
• Synced Lyrics
• Video quality changer

Additional Information

This has been reported in previous issues, such as #3207, however they were closed and marked as fixed. I am using the latest stable version and still having this issue.

[sam51210]

I experience this too, however I can't download any song.

[JellyBrick]

Are you using a proxy?

[Zynax1]

No, I'm not using any kind of proxy or VPN. I have a video of the issue if it helps

https://streamable.com/oekixt

[franz-dc]

The way I found to successfully download a song (individually) is to press download for the first time, let it fail, and then press download again. It will succeed afterwards.

Going a bit technical, there is an issue with using Electron's net.fetch, while using the native fetch function work fine (also raised here). As @JellyBrick mentioned, net.fetch is used for proxies, so using the native one as-is is a no-go.

[PedzacyKapec]

Got the same issue in win10.

PS: I clicked download multiple times and every time getting the same error no matter what song it is and yes I am logged in.
Its just doesnt work anymore.

[Wip-Sama]

The problem arises when you try to download a song while listening to the song and not the video, it seems he can't download anything if it's only song and not video from my experience.

[ciganzelezo]

The way I found to successfully download a song (individually) is to press download for the first time, let it fail, and then press download again. It will succeed afterwards.

Same for me

[mimi-min]

I've had a bit of success if I download from the menu at the bottom when it's not in "now playing" mode, like the "home" or "library" screens. It still doesn't download anything automatically, however, and downloading playlists has about a 50% fail rate.

Regarding automatic download, it also doesn't seem to save my settings for that when I restart, for some reason...