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Playlist generator

By James Hahn

Turns your unused, youtube bookmarks that are laying around into a playlist loop for hours of entertainment!

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Time on the storeAbout 10 years or moreA rough range, not an exact date

Store users724As shown on the Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store rating4.2 / 518 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update24 Jun 2024Version 4.1.0, 2.3 years ago

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Reviews

Tudor Popescu2.7 years ago
crude, but does the job. I'm sure the interface will be improved in future versions :)
Grue Turtle3.3 years ago
just opens one video
Anno Domini3.7 years ago
Works like a charm. I have a folder with 50+ bookmarks and it was a pain to scroll through the list to choose songs at random. Thank you so much and I hope you have a wonderful year ahead!
Wizz Hard5.4 years ago
Great plugin ! Perfect for what i need. I have only one suggestion : Make it possible to create the playlist in a new tab instead of a new window because when you close another tab, the fresh playlist window also closes. (Or it is a bug in my side ?!). Thanks you anyway.
Johnny Jillky5.8 years ago
I had clicked the extension hoping it would make a playlist on YouTube itself... however, upon trying it, it pretty much does what a YouTube playlist does by itself (play a list). And for my purposes, that's all I wanted to do. I'm not even using it for music. I just like bookmarking videos since it's quicker to do that than wait for a YouTube page to load to save a video to a playlist haha
dave angel5.8 years ago
Awesome, works very well and something I've been needing for a while. Noticed you already have a github issue up for additional controls for 'skip/back/unbookmark', that would really make it even more useful even if it needs 2 clicks.
Ben Zhang6 years ago
Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar. I have hundreds of bookmarks I am too lazy to make into a playlist myself, and this extension was PERFECT for my uses. Thank you so much
Matt Ao6.1 years ago
Does what it advertises, I think you may want to update the instructions as I found that it wasn't clear how to set things up and I had to play around. Is this open source at all? I would like to try to take the next step further and create an actual youtube playlist from the bookmarks (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlists/insert)
Jadan Thiessen6.3 years ago
The name can be misleading, I'll admit, if you're expecting random videos similar to the ones you put into the mix. It doesn't make YouTube into Pandora, or whatever internet radio station you listen to. But it was perfect for my purposes. You put the names of whatever videos you have bookmarked in your browser, or even bookmark folders of videos, and it generates a playlist for them, either in the order you put them in or shuffled. If you hate YouTube's playlist program (and you should, because it is Satan's nails upon the chalkboard of sanity), this playlist will be a godsend for you. Instead of playing the first fifty songs of one particular playlist, it plays ALL of the songs in your playlist in all of your playlists, even if you have multiple, even if you have 300+ songs or videos, so long as they're bookmarked or in bookmark folders in your browser. And the randomizing algorithm feels actually random (except that it won't play songs you've already played until they've all been played, then it reshuffles them. I am a fan of that). One minor hiccup is that the individual videos have to be bookmarked, first. Takes a while if you haven't been doing that from the beginning, like me. Also, muy importante: turn off autoplay if you just want your own videos in the playlist. It will go off on a YouTube recommended spree and never play another song from your playlist until you start up another one. Second hiccup is if you don't like not knowing what plays next, you might not like that it doesn't show you the full shuffled playlist it created. I didn't mind in the least, but some people aren't into that. Only technical issue I've really found is that the volume adjuster for the video itself sometimes doesn't want to show up when you hover over the speaker icon. A new playlist fixes that in a jiffy. At any rate, it's good stuff. Ever since RandomTube stopped loading any videos ever on my browser, I've been using this. It has succeeded where the shuffle of YouTube has failed me.
Rohit Ganguly6.9 years ago
Incredible, this does exactly what I was looking for. Well done to James!!!!
Mohammad Badawy7.1 years ago
doesnt work
ВАСЯ пупкин7.7 years ago
Идея просто превосходная. Именно это я и искал. Работает неплохо, жаль, что нельзя посмотреть список и изменять порядок воспроизведения. Спасибо.
Wes Horne7.8 years ago
Works perfectly for my purposes. I had compiled huge folders of YouTube links, but I didn't have time to create a playlist. This extension makes a non-YouTube playlist that automatically selects random videos from a folder. Requests I have are for a feature that goes through links in order, or to create a real YouTube playlist, though I realize the latter might be difficult. I've been using it for about a year, without any notable issues. Thanks for the great extension!
Simon Barton10.1 years ago
It makes its own playlist thing, not compatible with real youtube playlists. I wanted a Playlist generator, not this.