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[Feature Request]: Per-Playlist Autoplay Settings?

Open Astralika opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

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  • [X] I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the feature request I want to file, without success.
  • [X] I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the feature request I want to file, without success.
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Problem Description

When the bookmarks tab was exclusively favorites/bookmarks, I enjoyed being able to find a single video and click on it, and get just that video. The ability to actually create personal playlists now is very nice!... but now my little Favorites/Bookmarks playlist is a playlist, and if I want to just pull up a single video from it, I have to remember, every time, to hit the Pause Playlist button on the playlist control.

When I attempted to fix this by going into the Player Settings to disable autoplay of playlists, rather than that defaulting the Pause Playlist control to on, it turns off playlists' ability to autoplay entirely, forcing me to either manually move to the next video in any playlist, or go back and turn on Autoplay again for playlists.

Proposed Solution

The primary solution I've thought of is to create a unique setting on user-created playlists like the existing Favorites/Bookmarks playlist to prevent autoplay for that playlist. That way, playlists like the Favorites list can prevent autoplay and act like lists of videos you can pick single pieces from, while at the same time allowing other playlists to act as full playlists.

Alternatives Considered

A secondary solution, that could be combined with the above or on its own, would be to associate the Autoplay Playlists setting with the existing Pause Playlist control, such that you can manually tell a given playlist to keep playing through. Even if the above control wasn't implemented, this would allow for both playlists-as-selection-of-videos and playlist-as-continuous-set, with a single prompt from the user instead of having to prompt for every video in a playlist.

Issue Labels

improvement to existing feature, new optional setting

Additional Information

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Astralika avatar Apr 05 '24 21:04 Astralika