Add a Mark-as-watched long-press menu item for playlists

[natebragg]

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Feature description

On a youtube channel's "Playlist" view, if a playlist is selected with a long press a menu should appear (akin to the long press on a single video). On that menu, a "Mark all as watched" item appears that when pushed iterates the list of videos in the playlist and mark all as watched.

Why do you want this feature?

I often have watched long playlists of videos in the official youtube app, and want to also mark them as watched in NewPipe. Right now if I want to mark them all, I have to open the playlist and mark each video manually, which takes forever on playlists with 100+ videos.

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[opusforlife2]

I don't get the purpose. If you've already watched them all, you can ignore the playlist and move on to newer ones.

[natebragg]

The channel of interest has thousands up on thousands of videos. I don't remember which videos I've seen and which ones I haven't.

[opusforlife2]

Ah, so you basically want to be able to scroll through the channel and view unwatched videos only, but for that you intend to use a bulk marking action by eliminating known watched playlists.

... I don't know, that seems like an overly specific use case to me.

[natebragg]

That's my use case. Perhaps that is overly specific. Hard to know if other people want this. Is it difficult to add? I assumed it would be approximately "copy this code from the long-press video to long-press playlist". Maybe I'm mistaken, I don't know the codebase.

[Kiyoshi364]

I have (at least) another use case for it, but first I'll try to generalize @natebragg 's use case.

The "mark the entire playlist as watched" button is useful for syncing "watched videos" in a general case. I'll show a possibility unexpected example arising from the mutable nature of playlists. It is common to YouTube Channels to release "video series" and neatly organize episodes in a single playlist. If a "video series" is still under construction (there are episodes yet to be released), one could mark the entire playlist as watched and as a new episode would be released, one would see an unwatched video on the bottom/top of the playlist.

Now I'll describe my use case. I have a stateful/ephemeral/everchanging/mutable playlist I call "To Download". When I'll be without internet for a long time, I add some videos to the "To Download" playlist; manually download each video [footnote 1]; watch downloaded videos offline (usually all of them); mark each downloaded and watched video as watched; then I use "Remove watched" button to clear the playlist.

I find this feature rarely useful outside of syncing use cases.
In a general case, I am in favor of automation buttons such as this.
Automation/looping actions are usually easy/simple to implement once the action itself is implemented.

I believe new users (who needs to sync something once) and automation junkies (like me) could benefit from this feature.

[footnote 1]: other automation buttons such as "Download entire playlist" would benefit my use case.