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New:  YouTube now has Full-Screen Playlists (since November __, 2008) If you click the full-screen icon in the bottom right of the player, not only will the current video go full-screen, so will the rest of the playlist.

Watch HIGH QUALITY on YouTube automatically. In My Account, on the left, click Playback Setup, choose “Always play higher-quality video when available.”

EXCESS INTERNET USAGE Especially for caregivers, who need to keep their family member entertained/oriented/engaged while working or out of the home, viewing many online playlists many times requires downloading the same files repeatedly.   Every time they download, they are saved in a Temp folder, but as soon as you close your YouTube window/tab, the files are eliminated.  So, you may find you want to download playlists and their videos.  “atube” works, and is truly totally free (no spamware/malware) (money is made from the many ads on its website).  It doesn’t download the actual playlist list, but you can specify a new folder in the save location for each playlist (set of videos) you download, and then add each set to your media player and click to create a playlist.

These playlists are NOT CURRENT – I have added to and subtracted from the playlists I now use, but my improvements are not reflected here because of two problems, one of which youtube has now fixed:

YouTube fixed saving a quicklist to a playlist. Previously, it only worked for 8 videos or less. Also, when you have many playlists, youtube’s “Add to Playlist” feature was SLOW (20+ seconds on high speed, for me).

YouTube Problems Remaining:

— From the Quicklist view, “Add to Playlist” loads in 5 seconds, which is okay, BUT THE PLAYLISTS ARE NOT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, AND the window is SHORT, with only room to see 5 playlist names at a time, so it’s next to impossible to find the right playlist !

— We need folders for playlists – I have 25 dance playlists, 25 musician playlists, 15 religion playlists, 20 movie highlights playlists, etc..  I begin each list name with the category, but still it’s hard to navigate ~180 playlists, and folders would make the “Add to Playlist” feature much faster.

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Before my old host crashed, and before YouTube enabled FullScreen playlists, this page had 3386 views.

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  1. AvatarDimitri

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    Hi, very good work getting youtube playlists to play in fullscreen mode. So, erm, how did you do it?

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  2. AvatarJonathon

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    In YouTube’s Edit Playlists window, the link to a playlist looks like: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=3ECE5BE4C3FC390B In YouTube’s View Playlists window, the link to a playlist looks like: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3ECE5BE4C3FC390B The mostly-full-screen playlists I have above use the format: http://www.youtube.com/p/3ECE5BE4C3FC390B

    So here are the steps I use to create full-screen playlists:

    From the edit playlists window, I copy all the playlists, and paste them in a program with a visual editor*. Switching to view the html code, I see something like a long version of this:

      < li class>< a href="http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=3ECE5BE4C3FC390B" rel="nofollow">Amazing Grace< /a> - 6< /li> < li class>< a href="http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=4D2C29742E6C8E55" rel="nofollow">Comedy< /a> - 22< /li> < /ul>

    Either in the editor, or after copying the code to a Notepad file, I replace “my_playlists?p=” with “p/”.

    I save the edited page.

    • (I used WordPress, but FrontPage works, as does NVU. NVU is freeware, but when I last checked it was not the ultimate ideal)

    It’s not automatically integrated with YouTube, so if I add more playlists that I want visible to my visitors, I need to edit my file. And if I change the # of videos within a playlist on youtube, that won’t update automatically here, so, if it matters, I need to edit the file.

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  3. AvatarDimitri

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    Many thanks for the tip!

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