A regrettable decision. This removes the main reason for me to use Lingq. The opportunity to learn languages with videos on topics that interest me used to be my main focus here. I’ve tried the import, but it’s far from being an adequate replacement. The results don’t work properly and it takes a long time. Too bad. I probably won’t take out an annual subscription, which was my intention.
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@zoran Considering that there are email notifications you make use of, it would probably make sense to use them to inform the users about such changes. I wouldn’t simple assume that every user reads the forum.
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I, too, didn’t know it was possible to download videos without subs. I knew about Whisper AI but didn’t know it was available on LingQ. I’m studying Romanian and there isn’t a plethora of subbed material available so why wasn’t it made clear to users that this option was available? It’s not available now so it doesn’t matter but when will the importing issue be fixed? More communication is needed !! 
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Hi Zoran,
Instead of continue supporting, you have decided to cut the connection with the largest video library, which the most usefult feature in Lingq?
Please consider all these the objections
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Hi @zoran
For the suggested workaround
I can’t upload any mp3 audio files that exceeds the 60 MB. which is the most youtube files, please advice
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@mogo.gero We still support importing from YT, the only thing that changed is that we no longer import videos without subtitles (which actually was the case before we implemented Whisper AI). But there is still a workaround for videos without the subtitles too, as explained. We’ll see what can be done regarding the 60MB limit.
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@Obsttorte Of course, we will notify all users in this week’s roundup email.
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So disappointing !
Importing YouTube videos was one of the best feature of LinkQ. Unfortunately I will have to cancel my Subscription and find another resource.
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Hi Zoran, thanks for the update. Can I check how this works? “…making sure that the many videos with captions, even automated captions, work well and are formatted correctly.”
As an example, I’m wanting to import this video, which has auto generated captions, but the Lingq importer is saying “no captions found” when I use the extension and select “automated transcript”? Am I doing something wrong? Or maybe the update is still to be pushed out?
For videos with manual captions, I’m finding that the “automated transcript” button will also result in the video failing to import, but I can currently import the video by selecting “Whisper AI” (I’m assuming the AI skips making the transcript if it detects existing manual subs). So if Whisper AI is being discontinued, that makes me a little worried that my one way to import manual captioned videos will also disappear?
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How do you select Whisper AI?
@shelleyde It’s not yet fixed, but we are working on it and we will have it fixed soon.
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A real shame as I no longer see any reason to continue my subscription to LingQ. This was by far the most important feature of the site. It doesn’t help that imported transcriptions for videos who have captions are always out of sync.
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Ive cancelled my subscription so it will not renew in December. I hope this is fixed by then if not I’ll just let it expire and do youtube with auto captions. The workaround is time consuming tedious and not effective as it cant match up to the text. Sorry to leave linq but without being able to upload most of my preferred content it is not worth paying
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Is there any update one year later? Still the same error
I can’t import Youtube videos: wither “error. no appropriate captions found”
Doesn’t that just mean that the videos have no captions? LingQ has to rely on the captions supplied with the video. They tried to auto-generate them, but that went for a burton (1).
(1) It didn’t work!
Ah, thanks Leif. I haven’t used the YT importer for a while. I thought it would generate the subtitles using AI. I went down the longer route and it worked:
- Youtube video to MP3 file.
- Audio import of MP3 file and LingQ creates the subtitles.
@David72 There is a workaround you can use to import videos without subtitles: How to import Youtube videos without captions
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Ah yes. That’s what I’ve been doing for most videos but thanks for the “How-To” guide. I just need to remember that the YT importer is only if there are CC subtitles with the video.
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