Youtube Playlist enhancements
August 8, 2012 / by Marco / Categories : Business, Technology, Youtube
I’m a regular youtuber (is there such a word?) and watch overseas singing shows in the US like The Voice, American Idol, X Factor and the list goes on. There are several things that bug me when I use Youtube and I listed them below:
1. I believe by default (depending on the uploader) , the playlist function plays the newest videos to the oldest. Why isn’t there a button to change this so that you can play from the oldest to the newest videos? That way the videos are in sequence of how the show ran and you don’t end up watching snippets of what happened in the previous videos. I think this is how the Youtube playlist bar should look like (I’m sure a proper designer can do a lot better than what I drew):
2. I don’t want to know the winner results until I watch the end of the video. I’m sure you encountered this before, but how many of you click on their youtube channel, and the first thing that get’s shows is the winner! Most of the channels shows the latest videos uploaded (most likely the finale) and to be honest, I don’t want to know the winner until I watch the end of the video. Sometimes the title and comments also gives it away which can ruin the whole experience of watching the show from start to finish. Why isn’t there a “blockout feature” so that you can block this type of information (winners) until you watch the actual video. Doesn’t this make more sense?
If someone already has done, or knows where these features are then please let me know. I would really  love to use or see these features implemented on youtube’s video playlist. If anyone knows someone in youtube please pass this post on… very unlikely this will happen but fingers crossed.
Thanks. 🙂

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