I've spent a considerable amount of time since a couple of days trying to use some existing YouTube playlists and trying to sort them in the order of their uploads or in a useful sequence for continuous play. The Chrome extensions or Firefox add-ons that I found wasted quite a lot of time since they work with "new YouTube", whatever that is, thanks to Google's continuous ongoing changes, they don't! Let that be. I shall just share quick tips:
- To copy someone else's entire playlist to easily work with it, DON't install any plugin. DO the following:
- Click on the playlist and then on it's URL, append &disable_polymer=1
- Press enter.
- Click on the three vertical dots on the top right.
- Click on Add all to...
- Select or create playlist.
- Do whatever you like with this saved playlist.
- To reverse any playlist:
- Go to playbackloop.com
- Paste the playlist URL copied from YouTube there and order as needed from the drop-down list there at the top of the page.
- Play there itself.
- To reverse any playlist on YouTube itself, ImprovedTube seems to be working (for me) on Chrome.
- Install ImprovedTube extension on Chrome.
- In Playlists, switch on Reverse
- In General Settings, try setting YouTube version to new
- Restart Chrome.
- Open YouTube playlist.
- Click on reverse-playlist icon (both up and down arrows side-by-side) on top of the playlist, next to loop and shuffle icons.
- If you don't see this icon, switch to old YouTube version and repeat above steps from the third bullet.
- If it still doesn't work, my apologies. You can try the following though.
- I am yet to try Playlist Sorter extension as it asked for me to login to YouTube via it, and also since I want to move on with using my reversed playlist than waste more time ...beyond this blog entry, of course :-)
