Great news for fans of LazyWorm's MetroTube app! The builder of the app, after pulling it from Windows Phone Marketplace a while back, has decided to bring it back as a free app.
In last December, LazyWorm in a letter to users informed that YouTube's API did not have any documented methods for obtaining high quality video content. While the company tried to find a workaround to obtain this content, it finally decided to stop distributing the apps. As a result, though the apps remained functional for those who already installed them, no further updates were pushed by the developers.
Now again "MetroTube is Back," LazyWorm posted in their website stating,
"Our goal from the very beginning was to deliver a rich YouTube experience that could be officially promoted by Microsoft (or Google). It was for this reason that we never supported features such as video download or the playback of non-mobile content and why we have spent the past 7 months investigating alternative avenues of delivering the same rich experience via official means.
We were truly hopeful that we could resolve these issues however it has gotten to the stage where we've exhausted all of our options. Essentially, we have done everything in our power to go through official channels without any luck. We don't want to see the project that has consumed a year and half of our lives go to waste like this and so we've decided to re-launch Metrotube for free.
We hope the app receives a big enough response from the Windows Phone community justifying the need for Google or Microsoft to show us a little more support."
MetroTube, known as one of the best apps of Windows, streams video in HD HQ and low quality, lets the users manage their playlists and listen to audio under lock and many more.
