Lacey::Free Music & Video Downloader

Command Line Options

/a	Keep window always on top
/e	Automatically Exit
/l <language code>	Change user interface language to specified 2 letter language code
/m	Start minimized
/s <search>	Search for given string
/f <filter>	Filter results for given string
/d	Automatically download first found file
/c <x>	Set download limit count

Additional settings

In the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CompSoft\Lacey you can setup additional settings:

ContextMenuSearchDefault	0	REG_DWORD	Default Search Context Menu Item (0-3)
YtDlCookies	C:\Users\<user>\Cookies.txt	REG_SZ	Path of Youtube cookies file. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp

WebView2 needed for some Sources

To download from some sources, you need WebView2 installed. This is a free component from Microsoft.

You can download it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=2124703.

See https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ for more details about WebView2.

Download from Youtube on Windows 7

Lacey uses https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp to download from Youtube. Unfortunately this helper application is only working on Windows 10.

There is an alternative version at https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases. Download yt-dlp_x86_win7.exe and copy this file as yt-dlp.exe to C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Temp\Lacey\

The ‘Folder Layout’ option allows you to specify the folder layout and the file name for each downloaded file.
<Year>, <Month>, <Day>, <Title>, <Artist>, <Album>, <Source>, <Track> and <Track##> will be replaced with their actual values.

Provider List

If you press the Ctrl or Shift key while selecting a provider, this provider will be selected and all others will be deselected. So you can switch between providers with one mouse click.

Provider List - Select My Favorites

If you press the Ctrl or Shift key while selecting ‘Select My Favorites’, the current provider selection is saved. So you can easily restore your favorite provider selection.

Start external Audio/Video Player

If you press the Ctrl or Shift key while selecting ‘Play’, the default player will be started with the downloaded file.
A Double Click with pressed Shift key onto a downloaded file, will also start the default player.