YLR-Auto 2.0.0

YLR-Auto can now rip discs itself, from each optical drive, without opening MakeMKV's window. It runs makemkvcon, which comes with MakeMKV, so there is nothing new to install. Settings, logs, caches and library layouts carry over unchanged.

Changes

• Rip from each drive. Open scans a disc and shows its page, where you look it up on TMDb and tick titles. Rip then saves them, with a progress bar, percentage and time left, on any display server. All your drives can rip at once.
• Eject without a dialog in the way. These rips free the drive when they finish, so Eject the disc when a rip finishes works unattended. For rips in MakeMKV's own window, eject now keeps trying for ten minutes while a dialog holds the disc.
• Your TMDb pick carries through. Clicking a film ticks the title with its runtime and goes with the rip to filing. It files itself if its runtime agrees and automatic filing is on. The top search result alone never counts as a pick.
• Settings, Ripping. Choose what the drive button does, what inserting a disc does, how titles and progress look, how Stop and failures behave, and where rips go. Each drive can override the defaults, and three presets set the main choices together. Nothing changes until you choose otherwise, and by default nothing starts by itself.
• Per drive: a custom name, recent rips, and its next action in the tray menu.
• Alerts: choose which you get, with an optional sound.
• The AppImage can update itself from this version on, with AppImageUpdate. Copies of 1.1.1 and earlier need updating by hand once.

MakeMKV's window and YLR-Auto's monitoring of it are still there, for discs that need them. A drive held by a MakeMKV window cannot be opened in YLR-Auto until you close that disc or window.

See the README for how it works and the changelog for the full list.

Install

Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04 or newer:

sudo apt install ./ylr-auto_2.0.0_amd64.deb

Other x86-64 distributions:

chmod +x YLR-Auto-2.0.0-x86_64.AppImage
./YLR-Auto-2.0.0-x86_64.AppImage

Known limits

• You choose titles, but audio and subtitle tracks follow the default selection rule in MakeMKV's own settings. Rip from MakeMKV's window to choose them for one disc.
• PAL discs usually run about 4% short of TMDb's runtime. Their titles may not be ticked by runtime, and such a rip waits for you instead of being filed automatically.
• Ripping was tested on DVDs on Debian 13. It has not been tested through Open with a Blu-ray or series disc, or against a real read error or an expired MakeMKV key. Please report anything wrong with these.
• Both packages have been tested only on Debian 13. Ubuntu 24.04 meets the .deb's version requirements, but has not been tested.
• The tray icon has been tested only on Cinnamon. Cinnamon needs xapp-sn-watcher, and GNOME needs an AppIndicator extension. Without a tray, closing the window quits.
• The AppImage uses software rendering.

This project is not affiliated with MakeMKV, Jellyfin or TMDb.