How do I play a YouTube playlist now?

[lalkin]

Youtube's UI seems to get worse and worse with every change. Why the hell can't they just make things work?

[MarquisDan]

That's intuitive as fuck, thanks youtube!

[MyNameIsMcBad]

Thumbs up if Youtube's funtionality pisses you off now, I wish I was saying this to just get a top comment. Why can't I just click "Play playlist now"?

[CixDeuce]

I thank you lol but I have no ideal what your clicking on or what your doing. Any suggestions.

[MrCornholio93]

Is there a limit to how many playlists you can have?

[SFGiantsChick55]

George Harrison is in the begining part <3 go BeAtLeS

[HeroBreakersHatesFox]

THANK YOU!!

[AliceLivesAgain]

Thanks, it's retarded how it doesn't give you this playlist view automatically.

[mbelicek]

You made ma day! Thanks. Why is this feature not available directly on youtube?

[tweetyrocks818]

it dosent work... :/ it worked before wen i did it for a different playlist nd now it juss says oops... :/

[Ra3nMaN]

You, Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. May your bed never be lonely and your glass never empty.

[martinhjerpe]

How to solve this:

1. Scroll down to bottom of page

2. Click on "Try something new!"

3. Try out "Cosmic Panda: A New Experience for Videos, Playlists, and Channels"

[MrDelusionalPenguin]

the fuck is going on with playlists

anyway thanks for making this.

[DieTheDeath]

yeah or youtube could just add an "autoplay" feature to playlists... thanks again mainstream for missing the obvious

[tweetyrocks818]

how can i CONTINUE watching a playlist? there is a playlist that i wanna watch here but its like 300 vids in it, i know how to start watching them where they automatically go to the next video in order but if i were to turn off my computer and watch them from where i left off the next day, how can i do that?

[donutfiend84]

You sir, are the man.

[17rev72]

Aah, didnt work for me! Still just plays the first vid :(

[fleszdocs]

does anyone know how do I set HD as a default to be ON on all of the clips or playlists?

[snakexiv14]

Thanks, this has been bugging me for a while xD

[gridvid]

YouTube?

Why is there no button for this??

It's so ridiculous!!!

[gridvid]

YouTube?

Why is there no button for this??

It's soooooooo ridiculous!!!

[duaneafields]

Absolutely ridiculous you have to do all of this to play a playlist now. Used to be able to type ROCK PLAYLIST, then PLAY ALL VIDEOS, even had a forward, back and random buttons. Who's the asshole group for youtube to FUBAR this one all to hell! SHOW YOURSELF!!

[TheNewnice]

view_play_list?p=

[nukelear32]

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[PrckoBas]

How to reach this page ? What am I supposed to do first in order to see "Playlist" button?

In this example Interface is blue, why?

[123theblacksamurai]

Great instructions,sorted me out quickly

[elnino559]

thanks this was helpful!

[coffeecat3]

thanks for the clear step-by-step instructions, it worked.

[Locomamonk]

omg thanks so much, I hate it when I can't get a playlist to play out of the channel profile mode, this way is just what I wanted it to play like :D

[rawpranks]

fuckin youtube is the most worthless piece of shit i ever had to deal with.

[BlakesMind510]

Very helpful! Thanks a bunch!

[LaszloPanaflex]

This is helpful, but if I want others to be able to watch my playlists through, there is no way I'll be able to get them to go through all this. It is ridiculous that YouTube made this so hard.

[LaszloPanaflex]

Why did they make this so effing difficult? Copy, delete, type, paste, bookmark. oops you put the curser in the wrong place, start over.

Or, they could just put the play-all button back on. Sheesh.

[B1GB514]

Thanks uploader! Really helpful!

[DevineCaesar]

Handy Tip: If you have firefox first copy the link in the description then right click it and choose bookmark this link and save it as Youtube playlsit. Press ok and once doen then click the bookmarks menu in the menu right click the bookmark you just made and choose properties. On the dialog delete the URL redirect that was added and paste the URL you copied and add %s to the end then udner keyword type play. Now in the address bar if you type:

play 12345

It will take you to playlist 12345

[0wenWilsonsNose]

How do I post a comment?

[DevLcL]

Why does it take so much fucking work for such a simple request?.... retarded

[MikaelUmaN]

This is so extremely stupid it's unbelievable.

[typeNtardis]

Amazing that users have to make guides on how to overcome such a major oversight. Thanks!

[whateverwhenever11]

hehe, cool. ur smart hahahaha im still laughing!

[Nerte85]

Google is getting worse and worse. Not only search engine suck now with automatically giving you retarded results with words you DIDN'T seach (like "us" instead of "USA" in some more advanced searches), picture search sucks totally now, from Picasa web you can upload only 5 photos each time to your album, gTalk for Android have time/message order problem, etc etc. Seriously, FCUK Google! Be normal like 5 years ago!

[Icynow25]

so it's not you it's them but WTF that is the dumbest thing ever!what happened to good old fashioned BUTTONS!

[Shakin2012]

why does youtube make it easier to play playlist, it does my nut it

[Bryce1964]

You're a legend!

[TrishaLynn89]

Where is it located because I dont see it either

[q0MEz]

nvm i found it

[q0MEz]

my youtube page doesnt have that playlist thing on top to be able to click on it

[q0MEz]

hmm on my youtube page it doesnt say playlist on top to b able to click it and i keep puting it to but it wont show up? what do i do?

[lucynbudd]

I am using my iPod how do you play all the videos on ur playlists from ur iPod?

[Farglesword]

Am I retarded for wishing there was a simpler way to do this??? Why is there not a "play this playlist" button???

[nogoodreason]

Thank you for this video. I can't believe YouTube would make such a desirable feature so UN user friendly!

[Mamboleo1995]

i dont understand this..

[amaldev000]

So cool :) relieved me of a lot of headache... thanx buddy...

[soin2top]

You've got to be kidding. I hope a lot of people are looking for new jobs. So we're back where we started from:

THOU SHALT NOT UPGRADE.

I think I'll stick to my iPod until these %&*#@^&%% get their shit together.

[gerila82]

wow can't believe they haven't fix this :S

[FallenSaintsINC]

I just found out an easier way! In a playlist on a users page, if you click on any video on the list it will play the next video down when finished. Thumbs this up so people will know!

[FallenSaintsINC]

The 2 dislikes are by Youtube staff members. 

[leahinator]

This worked, but we really shouldn't have to do this to play all the videos. God knows why they removed the option.

[DjDedan]

youtube is broken



[xXSK83RXx]

wth there is no "playlists" button

[Jumbomasters]

youtube developers are the most stupid f***tards ever, there are a gazillions of bugs on this site, instead of fixing them they rather do some pointless shit like changing the design of the site, move the flash player sound button from right....

[sonikku35]

How do I use the shuffle function? I try it and even though it's turned to on, it doesn't shuffle through my favorites.

[BennyDeVries]

If you want to play a music playlist, try grooveshark. You can't see the music clips, but it's nice to fuck youtube

[KristineNote]

omg thanks :D

[dark420bishop]

Ah thank you! This was bugging the crap out of me. Also, DR TRAN!!

[rorymorris1]

When I click my "playlists" button only one playlist shows and I have two? Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong? ( both playlists are on Public setting )

[GouAlex]

@rorymorris1 When you click the "playlists" button, if you're logged in to your account, an arrange playlists link appears near it.

Click it and drag your new playlist.

Youtube takes a while to 'assimilate' a new playlist on your channel. Sometimes I had to wait days for it, and since I create many playlists, I don't want to wait for them, so I place their links in my channel's description.

You can acess anytime to your playlists if you click your username at the top and then "My Videos" :)

[rorymorris1]

@GouAlex AhHa!! Thats sorted it for me, thanks very much for taking the time to write back an explain that. I use my playlist while im doing art so Its great to have some music. Now I have lots more thanks to you pal. many thanks

[technoturnip1]

@GouAlex I USED TO BE ABLE TO PLAY MY PLAYLISTS IN ANY ORDER BY CLICKING A VID AND THEN CLICKING PLAY ALL. CAN WE STILL DO THIS? HELP!!

[yellingnonsense]

Thank You

[MixansFaith]

thank you for making youtube easier. The really like to fuck with us

[bandsreunited]

Thank you kindly. I work for a radio station and this is extremely helpful in creating my personal playlist. Cheers for sharing this!

[jaramya421]

OK...I can find my playlist if I want to save a video to it, but there is no button anywhere to click on if I want to watch something on my playlist. This list is just for me, I don't need anyone else to have access to it, but it looks like the only option (when I can find it) to have a button showing is for everyone else to be able to look at it too.

[max82power]

lol, this video should go viral. youtube developers suck ass!

[Pednuno]

Wow, Thanks ALOT.

I've been searching for something like this for ages.

Why is it so hard.. damn you youtube.

[smartbamboo]

thanks buddy... very helpful video.. god bless

[capitalmindz]

Thanks for the info. It is utterly disgusting that youtube would make it so difficult to USE THEIR FREAKIN PRODUCT. Go figure

[justmusicandme]

@GouAlex : I don't know why this can't be made more simple! But I was able to figure it out from watching this instructional video...also help from some other youtubers. I was able to put links on my page for twenty playists, too, which really helps! I have put your video on a playlist and put some instructions on my profile. I haven't tried your method of typing in "view pl" yet, but I can see where it could help to prompt the needed YT response! Thanks again!

[maynardcat]

@GouAlex Hi GouAlex I have a video posted of an hour tv series Adventurs in Paradise, and I did try another method of adding an auto playist for the viewer to use to make it easy for them to watch the entire series without having to search for the next video, or try to figure out making a playlist themselves, and so far it seems to work ok.

[CreamOfShitz]

dude its changed now i dun see playist url anymore

[GouAlex]

@CreamOfShitz The link you have to click to get the playlist url is the "more info" link, under the playlist's name. I went to your channel and clicked the "more info" link from your "Dance" playlist. I copied the ID: 84C8AE037AC31E93 and used it like this:

youtube[dot]com/view_play_list­?p=84C8AE037AC31E93

There you have it... Watch the movie above. It explains in detail these steps.

[QCDeViLMaN666QC]

WOW AWESOME THANKS DUDE !!

[GouAlex]

@QCDeViLMaN666QC thank you! Glad it was useful!

[Talhaguy]

Anyone know the song in this video?

[GouAlex]

@Talhaguy it's windows xp tour music :)

[maynardcat]

Great how to video. but I think this is a lot of trouble for the viewer . Is there any way the playlist owner can set a continued video permanetly to autoplay so viewers don't have to.  If I click account, then click playlist, and then copy the link off my continued playlist & paste it in the browser it plays automatically. I can't find a way to set it to play that way for the viewers Is there a way to do it, I can't seem to find any. Youtube should have an autoplay setting.

[justmusicandme]

@maynardcat : I have this brilliant idea of looking up "how to" do this, and I find you here! I love the coincidence - but I'm as confused as ever! If you ever happen upon a simple way to play a YT playlist, please let me know. So far I can only play my own!

[Afrowasi]

cool music + and thanks. Playlists! I can breathe again.

[Mohruebi]

Thanks for the workaround. This is so ridiculous. Why would they do that?

[King1N]

Why would they make it less manageable?

[ianhawke]

Dude, subbed to you cause you just made my User Experience all the better...

Youtube should pay you for this eheh

I will put you in favs as well

[streetwhereulive]

If some smart guy comes up with anything like the YouTube of yesterday will someone please get in touch with me. I'll be out of here so fast..........BTW......Thanks for the video.

[Swich94]

Why couldnt it just have been a simple "play playlist-button"? WHY!? -.-

[smokeyflea]

@Swich94 Huh, seriously.. I thought they had a much easier way to do this before... what the heck?

[hassenichjesehn]

i get frustrated every time by youtube when i encounter this. what is the point of playlists if you can't actually PLAY them? what was youtube thinking??? after so many years they cant get this right. along with the missing replay loop a feature that free music players have by default for decades, yet a HUGE company like google fails to get this. instead of implementing features they then mess up the channel display. thanks.

[Swich94]

@hassenichjesehn No longer an issue tho. Go to the homepage and click on your account-name on top. There you'll find all your playlists which you can just click on in order to play.

[hassenichjesehn]

@Swich94 I'm talking about playing playlists that other people made. The issue the video is about. I'm glad you can at least watch your own playlists easily.

[boblu1]

thanks so much! what a relief... the playlists not working had me enraged! Youtube is getting worse. Things around here used to be much more user friendly. Common Sense PLEASE Youtube - if it 'aint broke don't fix it.!!!!

[aikicinema]

This instructional video is great. But why youtube make it such a pain in the ass to view a simple playlist that a channel has gone to the trouble of creating for subscribers like me?

[tubejokez]

thanx for this solution. ive been looking for ages how to play these playlists. i guess one reason youtube stopped playlists is because of the lost revenue from advertisement before the vid starts. typical yewtube, always wanting to control the world.

[FROG55JQN]

thanks GouAlex

[cinemormex]

Even the old playlists don't work now....STUPID YOUTUBE!!

[fredfredburgerjr]

Thank you so much. Now I can watch a playlist since the channel update because of this video, since I cant watch the playist from the owner's channel or even find it when I search it even though on his/her channel shows that it has a playist. This video should be a featured video because I'll bet that I'm not the only one with this playist problem. Once again, THANK YOU! so very much, kudos and I hope that you have a nice day.

[GouAlex]

Thanks for your support :) Have a nice day!

[vampirereconsint]

Thanks for this!

Now I can watch LP's or some other things without having to watch them on a person's profile or right-clicking and opening new tabs. :D

[GouAlex]

@vampirereconsint exactly! I'm adding your example to the description, thanks! :D

[vampirereconsint]

Sweet, and you're welcome. :D

It's just kind of a pain to have to do that stuff, especially when you're trying to watch something, and you get interrupted. D:

The new profiles are awkward to navigate.

[KabukiDood]

I don't know why Youtube thinks that removing a feature is an update.

Anyway, thanks for this video, now I can nod off while watching Let's Plays again

[GouAlex]

@KabukiDood They may have a reason for doing it. Unfortunately, we can just guess that reason...

Thanks for your comment and enjoy :)

[cuntscab555]

how can google, famed for their neat design, turn youtube into one of the most inconvenient sites ever?

[GouAlex]

@cuntscab555 I understand your point. Maybe that can be partially explained by the fact that Google has bought Youtube.

One of the user's requirements at the time was not to change Youtube to an adaptation of the Google's video website. So the staff responsible for Youtube's layout just didn't dare to change it for a long time.

In the end, they concluded that a change was needed, although their users may still think otherwise.

I believe that Google has little to do with this decision...

[trishagroh]

Thank you so much for this video. :)

[GouAlex]

@trishagroh Thank You for your feedback! Feel free to let your friends know how to do it :)

[0ddler]

You helped me figure out how to get playlists to autoplay....maybe Youtube will restore that function again one day I'm sure.

5 Starred. Thanks!

[GouAlex]

@0ddler I was hoping that too, but it seems it's not on their high priority's list right now.

Glad it was helpful and many thanks for the 5 stars :)

[C2Cin2Dreams]

Thanks, I was wondering how to autoplay stuff.

[GouAlex]

@C2Cin2Dreams I'm glad it was useful! thanks :)