release v0.3.8

Author: meehow

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -115,3 +115,4 @@ jobs:
           receiver_*.deb
           Receiver-*.AppImage
           --generate-notes
+          --prerelease

data/io.github.meehow.Receiver.metainfo.xml

@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@
   </screenshots>
 
   <releases>
+    <release version="0.3.8" date="2026-03-04">
+      <description>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Fix YouTube stream downloads</li>
+          <li>Make station name clickable to open its homepage</li>
+          <li>Improve metadata cleaning for DJ suffixes and title prefixes</li>
+        </ul>
+      </description>
+    </release>
     <release version="0.3.7" date="2026-02-28">
       <description>
         <ul>

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+receiver (0.3.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix YouTube stream downloads
+  * Make station name clickable to open its homepage
+  * Improve metadata cleaning for DJ suffixes and title prefixes
+
+ -- Michał Adamski <michal.adamski@808bits.com>  Tue, 04 Mar 2026 22:18:00 +0100
+
 receiver (0.3.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Add Last.fm scrobbling support

meson.build

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('receiver', 'vala', 'c',
-  version: '0.3.7',
+  version: '0.3.8',
   meson_version: '>= 0.59.0',
   default_options: ['warning_level=2']
 )

snap/snapcraft.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name: receiver
 base: core24
-version: '0.3.7'
+version: '0.3.8'
 title: Receiver
 summary: Discover 30,000+ verified radio stations from around the world
 description: |

subprojects/ytdl/.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 builddir/
 ejs/
+yt-dlp/

subprojects/ytdl/src/ytdl.vala

@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ namespace Ytdl {
 
     private const string UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36";
 
+    // Forced player version — must match what the EJS solver can handle.
+    // Update this when yt-dlp updates _DEFAULT_PLAYER_JS_VERSION.
+    private const string FORCED_PLAYER_ID = "9f4cc5e4";
+
     /**
      * Extract a playable download URL for a YouTube video.
      * Returns a VideoInfo with title and direct download URL.
@@ -138,20 +142,31 @@ namespace Ytdl {
     public VideoInfo extract (Soup.Session session, string video_id_or_url) throws Error {
         string video_id = parse_video_id (video_id_or_url);
 
-        // 1. Fetch watch page → player JS URL
+        // 1. Fetch watch page
         string? page = http_get (session, "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + video_id);
         if (page == null) throw new IOError.FAILED ("Could not fetch watch page");
 
-        string? player_url = null;
-        var re = new Regex ("/s/player/[a-f0-9]+/[^\"]+base\\.js");
+        // 2. Extract player JS URL from watch page as fallback
+        string? page_player_url = null;
+        var re = new Regex ("/s/player/[a-f0-9]+/[^\"]+(?:base|tv-player-ias)\\.js");
         MatchInfo mi;
         if (re.match (page, 0, out mi)) {
-            player_url = "https://www.youtube.com" + mi.fetch (0);
+            page_player_url = "https://www.youtube.com" + mi.fetch (0);
         }
-        if (player_url == null) throw new IOError.FAILED ("Could not find player JS URL");
 
-        // 2. Download player JS → extract STS
-        string? base_js = http_get (session, player_url);
+        // Force known-good player version (tv variant) — yt-dlp does the same
+        string forced_player_url = "https://www.youtube.com/s/player/" + FORCED_PLAYER_ID
+            + "/tv-player-ias.vflset/tv-player-ias.js";
+        string? player_url = null;
+
+        // Try forced player first, then fallback to page player
+        string? base_js = http_get (session, forced_player_url);
+        if (base_js != null) {
+            player_url = forced_player_url;
+        } else if (page_player_url != null) {
+            base_js = http_get (session, page_player_url);
+            player_url = page_player_url;
+        }
         if (base_js == null) throw new IOError.FAILED ("Could not download player JS");
 
         string sts = "0";