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Wow, a whitelisted, non-algorithmic feed of videos! Oh wait, do you mean... a playlist?

If we could restrict the app to just play videos of a single playlist, life would be great. But today it is very easy for kids to exit playlist mode, thus defeating the purpose of curating a playlist.

So it's just a playlist of playlists then? A meta-playlist.

My wife's business has a TV that plays some videos from YouTube of her company in the waiting room. At the end of the Playlist pops up videos from competitors. In the past it would autoplay those and it was embarassing but at least I turned that off.

She pays for YouTube Red. There is no way for YouTube to not autosuggest, or to repeat the videos in a Playlist over and over.

I decided for her to use YouTube because of the auto caption. Will need to find some other solution...

Its trivial on the desktop with one of the extensions/userscripts, both hiding suggestions and autoplaying what you select.

Yes, actually you can do it on a computer easily. You can even use like ListenOnRepeat.com and control the playlist. The problem is when she opens her retail location she wants to do it from the app on the tv, or app on her phone and do a Chromecast.

I'd rather not install a computer there just to show some videos...and I don't know why YouTube forces the suggested videos to paying customers without giving an option to turn it off.

Upload to YouTube for the captions, then youtube-dl to a VLC playlist or something? (Or to be a bit more pro, snag the captions from the download and remix them into the original source.)

Yeah...I may just suck it up and create the captions myself, put the videos on USB and play it through USB. We don't need to mess with YouTube and we can cancel the Youtube Red account, and be 100% accurate on the closed captions. That was my ultimate solution, just need to find the time.

In the past, I've used youtube-dl and VLC for a similar reason. It's nigh-impossible to make Youtube only play the content you selected to play.

Is there a playlist of channels? Or a playlist of playlists? my kid love the idea that she is deciding which video she sees and apparently she prefers the creepy channels.

If there is a way to create that whitelisting I would happily pay. If there was a Foss alternative I would happily join.

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