RuForge

Queue lives in a corner drawer with thumbnails that crossfade as jobs move. If something hangs too long, RuForge kills it and tells you why. Playlists land in their own numbered folder. Flip audio-only and the size preview is actually audio size, not a full video file playing dress-up.

• →yt-dlp stays current; Windows installer is signed
• →Tells you when the file is already in your library
• →Pause, resume, reorder, or replace a job in place

Turn on audio-only and you get a real m4a, not a giant video stream squeezed into an audio file. Playback shows a full LED equalizer on the cover instead of a dead black box. Side waveforms move with the music while it plays.

• →m4a extraction, not a full video re-encoded as audio
• →90-bar LED visualizer wired to Web Audio
• →Library cards keep cover art on hover

Chapters from the yt-dlp sidecar become their own scrub pills. Hover one and you get a preview pulled from the sprite sheet ffmpeg built when you downloaded. Jump with prev/next, or Shift+arrow if you are in a hurry.

• →Sprite sheets on download (off in Settings if you want)
• →Long chapter titles scroll instead of clipping
• →Chapter data lives in the sidecar, no extra API calls

First play pulls segments and saves a sidecar next to the video. Intros, self-promo, music tangents, the usual categories. It learns what you skip versus what you sit through.

• →Scrub bar colors match each segment type
• →On by default; tune categories in Settings
• →Works offline after the first fetch