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-Not actively maintained anymore. Requires recoding and I'm just too lazy to pursue that at this time. Check back later.
+A rewrite is currently in progress and will bump the version to 2.0.
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+[Here's the rewrite branch](https://github.com/murrty/youtube-dl-gui/tree/rewrite), feel free to look around and test it.
 
 # youtube-dl-gui
 GUI for [youtube-dl](https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl) + [FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/) (which is used for converting).