We're pretty excited about the new Playlists feature, and we hope you are too, but as with any new feature, there is a bit of a 'learning curve' to using it, and as such, we have created this help article to guide you through everything there is to know about them!
But before we get started, you might be curious as to what exactly a playlist is.
Playlists allow you to create organized 'collections' or 'groups' of TinglyTube videos that you can assemble and organize to your liking, complete with their own title and description. Below is an example of a playlist by JJ15ASMR that contains all of his TinglyTube Exclusive videos.
Now that you know what a playlist is, let's get into how to create, manage, and navigate them!
Creating a Playlist
You can create a playlist in one of two different ways, either from the dedicated "Create a Playlist" page or from the watch page of any video on TinglyTube.
From the "Create a Playlist" page:
1. Go to the "Create a Playlist" page by pressing your username at the top-right corner of the site, select “My Playlists” from the dropdown menu, and then to the right of the "Playlists" page heading, click/tap on "Create a Playlist".
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2. Once on the create page, you can give your playlist a title (maximum of 120 characters), description (optional with a maximum of 255 characters), and privacy setting.
3. You can then add videos to your playlist by pasting the full URL (video shortlinks are not accepted) into the "Add Videos" input field, adding more as needed by pressing the "Add" button to the right of the input (you can also remove unneeded ones by pressing the "Remove" button).
4. Press the "Create" button and you'll be taken to your newly created playlist!
From the Video Watch Page:
1. Under any video on TinglyTube, press the "Add" button and a box with two tabs will pop up, the first will show any playlists of yours with their associated details, and the second will allow you to create a playlist that will have the current video added to it once created.
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2. You can of course select an existing playlist of yours to add the current video to it, but we will instead use the second tab to create our playlist in the same steps that we would when using the dedicated create page.
3. After giving your playlist a title, description, and privacy setting of your choice, press the "Create" button.
Viewing and Managing your Playlists
Once you've created your first playlist(s), you can easily view and manage them by going to the "My Playlists" part of your profile as described before.
Your playlists will also be displayed on your profile depending on your individual playlist's preferences and your global user preference on whether or not you want your playlists displayed on your profile at all.
You can edit this preference by going to the "User Preferences" page by pressing your username at the top-right corner of the site as described before, selecting "Edit Profile", and from there selecting the "Preferences" tab next to the "Personal Tab".
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(On Mobile - you will need to tap "Personal" and then select "Preferences" from the dropdown)
Under each playlist will be two icons, the first will allow you to edit your playlist, and the second will allow you to delete your playlist.
Clicking/tapping on a playlist will take you to its view page where you can view all of the videos in it, in which you can click/tap the "X" icon under any of them to remove that video from your playlist.
One cool feature that you may have seen on other platforms before is the "Play All" button which is situated to the right of the playlist's title.
Pressing it will take you to the first video in the playlist and once it is finished, the next video in the playlist will be played automatically, and it will continue until the end of the playlist has been reached.
How to Edit a Playlist
You can easily edit the details of an existing playlist and the videos in it by following the below steps:
1. As described before, press on the "Edit" icon under the playlist you'd like to edit to be taken to the edit page.
2. On the edit page you can edit the title, description, and privacy setting of the playlist as well as view a table of the videos in your playlist.
3. From the table of videos in your playlist, you can remove them in bulk by checking the "REMOVE" checkbox next to the video that you'd like to have removed, and you can also change which video will be shown as the thumbnail of your playlist by checking the radio circle next to that video.
From the same table, you can also dynamically search for and filter the videos that are in your playlist.
4. Press the "Save" button to save your changes.
Hidden Playlists
Hidden Playlists are playlists with no videos in them, this might happen by you removing all of the videos from the playlist, or the videos within the playlist being deleted by their uploader. So in order to provide a good user experience, we hide playlists with no videos in them, however, they are not removed or deleted. You can easily unhide a playlist by just adding some videos to it.
If you have any Hidden Playlists you will see a badge next to the "Hidden Playlists" button (next to the "Create a Playlist" button) with the total number of them. To view them, press it, and a box will pop up displaying them.
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To unhide a playlist, just press the "Edit" icon under it to be taken to the edit page so you can add some videos to it. If you'd like to delete it instead, just press the "Delete" icon and confirm the deletion.
And that's pretty much all there is to know about Playlists! 😊 We hope it was helpful, but if you still need help, or have any questions or feedback for us about playlists or anything else, please feel free to let us know via our Support/Feedback form.
We recently fixed a bug where the age on your profile would be wrongly displayed as 53. This was due to the birth date input on the "Edit profile" page defaulting to 12/31/1969 when not filled in while editing your profile.
Along with this fix, we introduced two small updates related to the age/birthday input:
- You can now remove the birth date from your profile by clicking/tapping on the birth date input, selecting the "Clear" option in the bottom left corner of the date picker, and hitting the "Save" button.
- On the "User preferences" page, you now have the option to either hide or show your birthday which will be displayed in addition to your age on your profile.
And if you choose to show your birthday, then on your birthday, a message letting others know will be shown at the top of your profile :)
We hope that this fix and related updates make your experience on TinglyTube much better, and as always, if you have any questions, feedback, or have found a bug yourself, please let us know via our Support/Feedback form.
One of the most long-awaited features on TinglyTube is comment reply notifications, and as of today, they are finally a reality!
Anytime someone replies to your comment, whether it’s on a video, blog entry, wall, or even a site notice, you’ll be notified via email and bell so that you can keep the conversation going 😊.
And if you mention someone in your reply (such as when you reply to another reply), we’ll also notify them and the original commenter. You can also mention multiple usernames' as well and we'll notify them each! (Depending on their set notification preferences).
And just like normal comment notifications, you can also disable reply notifications if you'd like by going to your user preferences.
We hope that this improvement makes the social experience on TinglyTube much better :) And, as always, if you have any questions or need any help at all, please let us know via our Support/Feedback form.
Letting your viewers know that you care about them and what they have to say is the best way to create a lasting relationship with them so that they keep coming back to watch and engage with your content.
And to help with that, we’re excited to announce that you can now heart comments on your videos, blog posts, and wall!
Just click/tap the “Heart” button (next to the “Reply” button) under their comment and it will turn into a smaller version of your profile picture with a red heart overlayed on it to signify that it was hearted:
We'll also send them an email and bell notification (depending on their preferences) to let them know that you hearted their comment :)
We hope that this improvement makes engaging with your viewers even easier and more special. And, as always, if you have any questions or need some help, let us know via our Support/Feedback form.
Forgetting our login details is an annoying but inevitable process, which is why we made ours so simple at first — You go to the recovery page (or "Lost" page), enter your account's email address, hit "Recover Password", and we reset your password to a randomly generated one and email it to you. Easy!
However, it had the downside that if someone knew your account's email address, they could easily reset your password, and while they wouldn't know it, it would probably get pretty annoying very quickly. Another downside was that you couldn't just recover your username, you had to reset your password too.
So we're happy to say that we've improved our login details recovery system! And it's still as simple as before :)
The new system/page fixes the issues we described before as:
