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Welcome to the docs for Media Extended v4 beta!

Integrate, manage, and play media files directly in Obsidian. 🖇️🗂️⏯️

For User from v3

License Change

Media Extended v4 is now available for testing via BRAT. Future releases of v4 will be closed source. The original codebase remains open source under the MIT license and can be found in the v3 branch.

Installation

via BRAT

Current Beta Release

Version: 4.0.0-beta.1
Minimum Obsidian Version: 1.8.9

Beta versions are not production-ready, make sure to make proper backup before preceeding.

You can use the Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tester (BRAT) plugin to install a pre-release version of the plugin.

Install BRAT

Download BRAT and enable it

Add a beta plugin for testing

Open link to BRAT, it will open BRAT and ask you to add the plugin. Of course, you can manually add the plugin by using the Add Beta Plugin command and enter aidenlx/media-extended.
Click on Add Plugin -- wait a few seconds and BRAT will tell you what is going on

Enable the beta plugin

After BRAT confirms the installation, Open Settings > Community plugin
Refresh the list of plugins
Find the beta plugin you just installed and Enable it.

What's next?

If you're coming from earlier versions or planning to join the beta testing, there are some important changes you should be aware of. We recommend starting with the breaking changes to understand what's different in v4, then check out our roadmap to see what's coming next.

If you're interested in providing feedback during the beta phase, please visit our beta feedback guide.

I understand many of you have been wondering about the long development cycle of v4. I've written a detailed blog post explaining the challenges I faced, my personal reflections on the development process, and my vision for the future of Media Extended. If you're curious about what's been happening behind the scenes, I invite you to read it.

Special Thanks

A special thanks to bfcs for their valuable contributions. They have helped fix issues during a long period of inactivity and made attempts to implement YouTube transcript functionality!

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