Youtube is Testing Video Queues for Its Desktop Website

YouTube is finally adding i of the well-nigh necessary features to its platform, video queues. Video queues are essential for any video streaming platform and I was genuinely surprised when I start constitute out such a basic feature was missing from YouTube. Well, the streaming giant has been silently working on it and has started testing the feature.

Y'all don't demand whatever special insider access to endeavour out the feature. Enabling the characteristic is quite simple. All y'all have to exercise is visit YouTube'south experimental features page here and click on the blue push that says Try information technology out.

youtube video queue

Co-ordinate to a recent report from Android Police, some users are getting a prompt from YouTube suggesting them to try out the new video queue characteristic. However, that did not happen with either of my Google accounts.

At that place are two ways to add a video to the queue. You lot tin either hover over the video thumbnail and click on the Add to Queue button that appears over the thumbnail or click on the three vertical dots that appear to the correct of the video title and choose Add together to Queue.

The feature is neatly implemented in YouTube'south mini-role player. The video which is being currently played will shift up when you click on the Up arrow that appears near the current video's title. You lot can also drag to reorder videos in the queue. Take a look at the epitome beneath to see the feature in action.

youtube video queue in mini player

As per YouTube's experimental features page, the feature will be up for testing until September 10. If the feature does not crusade whatever major hiccups, YouTube hopefully volition start rolling out the feature to everyone starting next month. There is no information regarding video queues for mobile every bit of now. So, are you lot excited to try out video queues? Let us know in the comments.