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New Playlist created by Smarttube is local only

Open ukbirdflu opened this issue 10 months ago • 7 comments

Checklist

  • [x] I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.
  • [x] I have read the FAQ and my problem isn't listed.
  • [x] I have taken the time to fill in all the required details. I understand that the bug report will be dismissed otherwise.
  • [x] This issue contains only one bug.

Affected version

2564 stable and 25.65 Beta

Device Type

Smart TV/Box

Affected Android

Amazon Firestick TV 4K

Steps to reproduce the bug

  1. On home screen on any video long press select button to bring up the context menu
  2. Select save in new playlist
  3. Give the new playlist a name click ok
  4. New playlist is on the smart tube

Actual behavior

  1. Go to another TV and another Firestick with Smarttube and Youtube app, the new playlist is not there.
  2. The new list is only viewable by all when I create the new list using Youtube's own website.

Additional information

No response

ukbirdflu avatar Jan 26 '25 10:01 ukbirdflu

True. I don't how to fix it. Google blocked the API I used before.

yuliskov avatar Jan 26 '25 21:01 yuliskov

I'm experiencing the same issue. Playlists seen in official Youtube platform are different from SmartTube. I created some playlists in SmartTube and seems to be stored locally. In addition, if I create a playlist in the official Youtube, this is not appearing in SmartTube.

JosueArevalo avatar Feb 01 '25 13:02 JosueArevalo

Checklist

  • [x] I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my information to.[x] I have read the FAQ and my problem isn't listed.[x] I have taken the time to fill in all the required details. I understand that the bug report will be dismissed otherwise.[x] This issue contains only one bug.

Affected version

2564 stable and 25.65 Beta

Device Type

Smart TV/Box

Affected Android

Amazon Firestick TV 4K

Steps to reproduce the bug

  1. On home screen on any video long press select button to bring up the context menu
  2. Select save in new playlist
  3. Give the new playlist a name click ok
  4. New playlist is on the smart tube

Actual behavior

  1. Go to another TV and another Firestick with Smarttube and Youtube app, the new playlist is not there.
  2. The new list is only viewable by all when I create the new list using Youtube's own website.

Additional information

No response

Same happened with me and my playlist has many videos which might be lost if not synced soon. Any temporary fix or other workaround to atleat sync that playlist to my youtube account to save it from losing?

blue-pine avatar Mar 21 '25 08:03 blue-pine

I'm experiencing the same issue. Playlists seen in official Youtube platform are different from SmartTube. I created some playlists in SmartTube and seems to be stored locally. In addition, if I create a playlist in the official Youtube, this is not appearing in SmartTube.

All true for me except playlists created on official youtube are visible for me on smartube too. That issue is fixed for me

blue-pine avatar Mar 21 '25 08:03 blue-pine

True. I don't how to fix it. Google blocked the API I used before.

Google blocked the only api ?!! Thats alarming, is that a start of dismantling of all third party youtube clients ? WE need to save this smartube platform atleast

blue-pine avatar Mar 21 '25 08:03 blue-pine

Can confirm that this problem still persists until today. The playlist created inside SmartTube is only stored locally in that device only, so the playlist won't be saved to your Google account thus resulting in opening SmartTube in different device (loading from Google Account) will not show the playlist in previous device.

TheOmnisimush avatar Jul 30 '25 04:07 TheOmnisimush

Confirming persistence. Unfortunately, because my SmartTube playlists were lost in the recent switch to the new app/key. This is very frustrating, as I had quite a few videos in them. If we can no longer sync with our YouTube accounts, please provide a way to easily export/back-up playlists.

bmsanders149 avatar Dec 02 '25 17:12 bmsanders149

Issue still present sadly. Very sadly. Found out after created few playlist with lost of videos..............

krystian2160 avatar Dec 20 '25 19:12 krystian2160

Unfortuantely, true. I've added a warning about that recently.

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yuliskov avatar Dec 20 '25 20:12 yuliskov

Will it be fixed or something in the future? so its working?

krystian2160 avatar Dec 20 '25 21:12 krystian2160

the api isn't accessible anymore, but I can add a way to copy locally stored playlist to any one (pre created on the official app)

Regards, Yuriy

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yuliskov avatar Dec 20 '25 22:12 yuliskov

Would we be able to use it with the old version of the app? After double-checking, it seems that the old installation is still there (in some fashion), just made inaccessible.

bmsanders149 avatar Dec 21 '25 00:12 bmsanders149

the api isn't accessible anymore, but I can add a way to copy locally stored playlist to any one (pre created on the official app)

Regards, Yuriy …

Would like that. As I have many videos there so It would make transistion easier.

krystian2160 avatar Dec 21 '25 10:12 krystian2160

Unfortuantely, true. I've added a warning about that recently.

I see Smarttube gives a clear message when creating a local playlist. But in the section Playlists it's not visible which lists are local. Maybe put a label under the name "(local list)" or something to note that that list is only available on that device.

Are these local lists copied with a backup/restore?

rvk01 avatar Dec 21 '25 12:12 rvk01

Unfortuantely, true. I've added a warning about that recently.

I see Smarttube gives a clear message when creating a local playlist. But in the section Playlists it's not visible which lists are local. Maybe put a label under the name "(local list)" or something to note that that list is only available on that device.

Are these local lists copied with a backup/restore?

All data are backed up, including the so called local playlists. I'll add the label

yuliskov avatar Dec 21 '25 12:12 yuliskov

All data are backed up. I'll add the label

Thanks. BTW That would mean if you do a backup on one device and restore on another, you might override the local lists of that last one. So if you made changes there, those will be lost (won't they?).

Copy of one lists videos to an online one would indeed be useful so I can copy them there and remove my local lists, and never create them again with the app, only on yt itself, so this won't ever happen.

rvk01 avatar Dec 21 '25 12:12 rvk01

So if you made changes there, those will be lost (won't they?).

Yes, unfortunately it's true

yuliskov avatar Dec 21 '25 13:12 yuliskov