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Added support for Google video

You can now add videos from Google video see video.google.com

Facebook bookmarking improved

When bookmarking playlists in Facebook, the URL preview now correctly picks up the image and snippet of text associated with the playlist.

Playlist image, category and description

We’ve now added the option to select which image is used to represent the playlist. You can also add a description to the playlist, and select a category - for example “Music” or “Comedy”.

Add MySpace videos

You can now add MySpace videos to your playlists. Just cut and paste either the embed code or URL from the MySpace video you want to embed.

Now you can combine videos from YouTube and MySpace in the same playlist!

New video player

At last the new video player is ready! So what is better about the new player I hear you ask? Well…

Plays next video when browser is minimised

Now when listening to a playlist, you can minimise the browser (or have have the playlist in a hidden tab) and it will still move onto the next track when the current one ends.

Videos change without reloading the page

The page doesn’t reload, which means watching and browsing videos is much quicker.

Smooth transition between videos

When changing videos, the old video slides out and the new one slides in.

Top videos!

We’ve made quite a few changes behind the scenes, which means we can start to make some major improvements to the site. The first thing you’ll see is the change to the “top videos” on the home page - it now lists the playlists that each video is in.

There is loads of new stuff on it’s way very soon!

Playlist page update

We’ve worked on the playlist page to improve the reliability of tracking the number of plays in different browsers.

Google Web Accelerator and YouTube videos

There is a known problem with Google Web Accelerator that causes YouTube videos to display “We’re sorry, but this video is no longer available”. This problem affects all YouTube videos, so if you are experiencing problems, we recommend you disable or uninstall Google Web Accelerator.

A problem with the “Edit Playlist” page in IE

We found a problem with using IE to create and edit playlists. This has now been fixed - sorry about that! 

Changes to the “Edit Playlist” page

We’ve made the edit playlist page a bit more robust, with some extra help to get you started the first time you create a playlist. Now, you can’t save the playlist unless you’ve entered a valid title and you get a warning message if you try to save the playlist without adding any videos to it.

In addition, you get confirmation that the playlist has been saved.