Playlists are at the heart of YouTube Music’s approach to discovery with several personalized for you in addition to a torrent of general ones. YouTube Music for Android and iOS have quietly gained “Playlist update notifications.”
Appearing at the bottom of the settings page, this toggle will “Notify me when playlists I like are updated.” Given that the playlists tuned to you are updated at different times of the week, this is a good preference to remind users of new songs available to them.
These playlist notifications appear to be switched on by default for most YouTube Music users, but there are no reports of what the alert actually looks like.
This toggle was introduced sometime after version 3.61 and present on 3.67 — 3.69 with its new status bar icon is the current stable release. It’s appearing on both Android and iOS, while it’s the second alert toggle after “Recommend notifications: Notify me of videos I might like based on what I watch.” [On iPhones, that same setting is referred to as “New music notifications.”]
Back in February, YouTube Music introduced and widely rolled out “new release” notifications that recommend new albums that are mostly tuned to you.
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A playlist is a collection of videos. Anybody can make playlists, share them, and friends can add videos to your playlist. You can go to the Library tab to view all of your playlists. You can also manage your playlists in YouTube Studio. If a video or channel’s audience is "made for kids" and you’re on a homepage, you can't add it to a playlist. You can still add content from search results into playlists.
How to create and edit playlists in the YouTube app
Create a playlist
You can either start a playlist with a video, or from the Library tab .
With a video:
- Find a video you want in your playlist.
- Tap Save below the video to automatically save it to the last playlist you’ve saved to, or to your Watch Later playlist. A message will pop up at the bottom of your screen confirming which playlist the video was added to.
- To change where your video is saved, tap Change on the pop up. Select from the list of your playlists where your video should be saved and then tap Done .
From the Library tab:
- Go to the Library tab .
- Tap New playlist in the “Playlists” section.
- To add to the playlist, select one or more videos from your watch history.
- Tap NEXT.
- Give your playlist a title and set its privacy.
- Tap CREATE.
- Select a video you want in your playlist.
- Under the video, tap Save .
- Tap Create new playlist .
- Enter a playlist name.
- Use the box to select your playlist's privacy setting. If it's private, people can't find it when they search YouTube.
- Tap CREATE.
To get to your new playlist, tap the Library tab .
Delete a playlist
- Go to the Library tab .
- Tap the playlist you want to delete under the “Playlists" section.
- Tap More on the playlist.
- Tap Delete playlist.
- Tap DELETE.
Note: Your old playlist may continue to exist in viewers’ watch histories.
After you delete a playlist, the playlist URL and title will no longer be visible or searchable in YouTube Analytics. Data associated with the playlist, such as Watch time, will still be part of broader reports, but won't be attributed to the deleted playlist.
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Modifies a playlist. For example, you could change a playlist's title, description, or privacy status.
Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 50 units.
Common use cases
This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes [read more about authentication and authorization].
| //www.googleapis.com/auth/youtubepartner |
| //www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube |
| //www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl |
The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.
| Required parameters | |
| part | string The part parameter serves two purposes in this operation. It identifies the properties that the write operation will set as well as the properties that the API response will include. Note that this method will override the existing values for mutable properties that are contained in any parts that the request body specifies. For example, a playlist's description is contained in the snippet part, which must be included in the request body. If the request does not specify a value for the snippet.description property, the playlist's existing description will be deleted. The following list contains the part names that you can include in the parameter value:
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| Optional parameters | |
| onBehalfOfContentOwner | string This parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request. Note: This parameter is intended exclusively for YouTube content partners. The onBehalfOfContentOwner parameter indicates that the request's authorization credentials identify a YouTube CMS user who is acting on behalf of the content owner specified in the parameter value. This parameter is intended for YouTube content partners that own and manage many different YouTube channels. It allows content owners to authenticate once and get access to all their video and channel data, without having to provide authentication credentials for each individual channel. The CMS account that the user authenticates with must be linked to the specified YouTube content owner. |
Provide a playlist resource in the request body. For that resource:
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You must specify a value for these properties:
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You can set values for these properties:
- snippet.title
- snippet.description
- status.privacyStatus
- snippet.defaultLanguage
- localizations.[key]
- localizations.[key].title
- localizations.[key].description
If you are submitting an update request, and your request does not specify a value for a property that already has a value, the property's existing value will be deleted.
If successful, this method returns a playlist resource in the response body.
The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the error message documentation for more detail.
| badRequest [400] | defaultLanguageNotSetError | The defaultLanguage must be set to update localizations. |
| badRequest [400] | localizationValidationError | One of the values in the localizations object failed validation. Use the playlists.list method to retrieve valid values and make sure to update them following the guidelines in the playlists resource documentation. |
| forbidden [403] | playlistForbidden | This operation is forbidden or the request is not properly authorized. |
| invalidValue [400] | invalidPlaylistSnippet | The request provides an invalid playlist snippet. |
| notFound [404] | playlistNotFound | The playlist identified with the request's id parameter cannot be found. |
| required [400] | playlistTitleRequired | The request must specify a playlist title. |
| invalidValue [400] | playlistOperationUnsupported | The API does not support the ability to update the specified playlist. For example, you can't update the properties of your uploaded videos playlist. |
Use the APIs Explorer to call this API and see the API request and response.
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Last updated 2021-05-12 UTC.
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