So I was listening to this wonderful playlist for probably the 100th time, when I once again came to a song which had no sound for the last 4 minutes. If this is your own playlist you’re able to go and edit when the song is supposed to end, but this playlist wasn’t mine so I obviously couldn’t edit it. I wanted to make a copy of the playlist so I google’d around, but alas to no help, everything I found was deprecated tricks, so I had to come up with a new one.

Now, it doesn’t seem like the YouTube guys really wants us to copy their playlists, at least they haven’t made it possible with the new layout. The function was there before, but it seems they’ve forgotten to make it visible this time – or I’m blind and have possibly just wasted a lot of time by looking for weird workarounds. (I hope I’m not treading anybody’s toes by making this) But as of writing I have a trick, and I think you’ll find it of much use, although it’s not as fast as simply copying a playlist, but it’s not as slow either as going to every song to add this to your playlist, at least almost not.

I noticed how the bulk add-to-playlist only was available in one place, your viewing History, and what gets added to the history? the videos you’ve seen of course!

NB: You should have a YouTube account and you should be logged in.

The idea is simple (..and explained more thoroughly after the bullets).

1. Go to your History
2. Clear your History
3. Find your desired playlist and View every video (You only have to visit a video for it to appear in the History, but since you want to copy the playlist you’re probably gonna be watching it anyways so… (Note: If you watch the playlist beginning to end, all the videos will show up in the History in reverse order, we fix this below in 3 small steps, but if you’d rather skip this, you should watch the videos in reverse order.)
4. Go to History
5. Select all and Add these to a new playlist

[spoiler intro=”NB: If you go over the end and start over.. don’t worry!”]

… the songs wont be added to the History again, they’ll be move. So your playlist won’t be in the right order. This is also easily fixed. (If you’re only one song over, you can just do the usual thing, and drag it to the right place in the editor afterwards, but if you’re many songs through you’ll want something more.. automated..)

Step 5 will instead be,

1. Select all the songs
2. Deselect the songs that you want at the beginning
3. Create the new playlist, with the selected songs
4. Remove the selected songs
5. Select all the songs (whats left of them)
6. Add these to the playlist you just created, by clicking the Playlists dropdown button and clicking the name of it

So first you add the songs you want at the end to the beginning of the playlist. Then you add the songs you want at the beginning to the end of the playlist. When you reverse the playlist now everything is in order.

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Why is this faster? Well, you’re still visiting all the songs, but at the very least only for a second, and the actual adding songs to the playlist comes afterwards with just about the 5 clicks you’d do creating the initial playlist anyways. Why is this better? Well, at the laziest you just clear your History before you want to listen to the playlist the next time, and when you’re through you just continue with step 4..

If you understood the above, and now want to see how to reverse a playlist you can click this anchor link Reversing a Playlist on YouTube or if you don’t trust my links, scroll to where it says.. “what the link above says”.

How to Copy a YouTube playlist in 5 steps!

1: Find your History, click on your username (top right corner) and click on name of the playlist called History.

2: Clear your History click on the item that says Clear all watch history

3: Start the playlist you want to copy and sit back while you do your usual business while waiting for it to finish, or rush through it, pressing the Next video button, every time the page has loaded; I don’t blame you, I can’t wait for it to be mine either.

4: Go to your History again. You know how to do this!

5: Save all the songs in your History as a new playlist!

Congratulations! You now have a copy of the playlist! in reversed order.. But please read on because obviously this wasn’t good enough for me, so I continued to look around and the solution is cake easy!

Reversing a playlist on YouTube

1. Go to the Playlist
2. Edit the playlist
3. Quick Sort the playlist in reverse order
4. Save the playlist

And the above explained,

1: Go to view the Playlist

There are many ways to get to view a playlist, one of them is like when you wanted to go to the History Manager in the guide above; click your name and click on the name of the playlist.

2: Edit the playlist

3: Quick Sort the playlist in reverse order

 

4: Save the playlist

Yes, it’s that “easy”, it may sound like a lot, but that’s because I’ve cut down to every single click of the mouse, it actually is fairly simple. Apologies for my posts beginning to look like Leopards, I’m still practicing. Comments and Questions are welcome below!