[Feature Request]: Per-Playlist Autoplay Settings?

[Astralika]

Guidelines

• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the feature request I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the feature request I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one feature request.

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

No response

[toby63]

See also: PikachuEXE#70

[deepspaceaxolotl]

I was going to make a similar issue myself! I like the idea of setting it per playlist, ideally if it remembered it was manually set so that when the global setting changes, the manually-set ones stay (but the ones that weren't set manually don't). So, a button with three options perhaps: global settings, autoplay on and autoplay off?

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Based on the previous discussion on this issue in PikachuEXE#70 we decided this can be easily solved by implementing #1181 and #2295

[deepspaceaxolotl]

I don't see how those two would resolve this? If I'm understanding this correctly, you'd have to turn off/turn on autoplay every time you play a playlist that you want to play differently to your default setting/the setting currently active in the session, when the core issue is that some playlists are inherently used differently than others (watch later and favourites vs series, and of course someone might want to play them differently manually but usually prefer a specific setting). It would be far more intuitive to be able to set a playlist such as watch later or favourites to work essentially as bookmarks, rather than needing to remember to turn off autoplay every time, or vice-versa if one usually uses the former but wants to watch a series or listen to a music playlist sometimes.

[KandiPanda]

As a workaround, I added FreeTube as an external player (there was no "custom" or "other" option in the dropdown, so I randomly selected one (mpv if it matters), and set Custom External Player Executable to point at FreeTube's executable). Then when in the Favorites playlist, I click the "open in external player" button on the video that I want to watch, and it opens it in FreeTube without putting the local playlist in the sidebar at all, basically mimicing the previous single-local-playlist behavior.

[deepspaceaxolotl]

I've been running into this issue every day now, forgetting to turn off autoplay for my watch later playlist that I don't want to watch in order. Turning off Autoplay Playlists in options works, though it seems it can't be overridden as the pause button stops functioning completely, meaning playlists that one wants to autoplay now can't be. I still think a per-playlist option for user playlists would result in much less hassle.