How to Fix 'MacTubes not Working'?

Overview

YouTube is the first popular video websites and most of users will go to YouTube for their video enjoyment, but YouTube does not allow video download. But the need for downloading YouTube videos for offline purposes is growing day by day, in which case, some third Apps are developed to help users to download YouTube videos, among which MacTubes is one of the best ones. MacTubes has helped many Mac OS X users to download YouTube videos. Besides, MacTubes also allowed users to play YouTube videos, create playlist, keyword list, author list, play history music, etc. Unfortunately, such a good YouTube player and downloader stopped working since 2015/05/10 due to YouTube changed API. So how do these MacTubes users download YouTube videos? Well, a MacTubes alternative can easily help to solve this problem.

The Best MacTubes Alternative - Allavsoft

Allavsoft is a very popular MacTubes alternative and Allavsoft always works no matter how YouTube changed its API, because Allavsoft has professionals to update itself with YouTube API changing. As for functions, Allavsoft is also better than MacTubes and Allavsoft not only has all the functions provided by MacTubes, but also has many other excellent functions that MacTubes does not have. The detailed key features of Allavsoft are listed as below.

• Allavsoft is fully compatible with any Mac and Windows system and perfectly help any Mac user or any Windows user to download YouTube video.
• Work as a professional YouTube downloader to download any YouTube video file, playlist, album, station, etc for users to easily work the downloaded YouTube video file in any offline way. The output formats are not the one users should worry, because Allavsoft supports to save the downloaded YouTube video in any video format, MP4, AVI, FLV, MOV, MKV, WMV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, and more others.
• Work as a professional video player, Allavsoft supports to play any downloaded YouTube video file without concerning the video incompatibility issue.
• Work as such a powerful video downloader, Allavsoft supports to download video files or audio files from total 10,000+ video and audio websites as well as from YouTube. Some of the famous video and audio websites include Facebook, Yahoo, SoundCloud, Pandora, etc.
• Download YouTube videos and other video files without any quality loss and the downloading speed is very fast and the fastest speed that your bandwidth allows.

How to Use MacTubes Alternative - Allavsoft to Download YouTube Videos?

Users can follow the steps below to simply download their needed YouTube videos offline to any video or even audio format.

Make Preparation: Free download MacTubes Alternative

Free download the professional MacTubes Alternative - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import YouTube Video URL

Browse YouTube category or search the keyword to find the YouTube video that users want to download. Copy this YouTube video URL and paste it to Allavsoft. Dragging and dropping this YouTube video URL to Allavsoft also works.

Step 2 Set final output format (Optional)

Any video or audio output format can be easily saved and users only need to click the "Automatically Convert to" button to make that. Also, the YouTube original video format is normally set as the output format by Allavsoft default setting and users do not need to do anything, just skip this step and go to the next step.

Step 3 Start to download YouTube video

Finally, the YouTube video can be easily downloaded with the Download button is clicked.