5mo ago

Finding an "unavailable" video in a YouTube playlist is a pain

I made a music playlist awhile back. This morning YouTube showed a message saying "1 unavailable video hidden." You can un-hide hidden videos, which I did. Can you tell from the picture which of these three videos is no longer available?

YouTube won't tell you which of the videos in your playlist is no longer available. Got-damn.

It's the Tom Petty video, btw.

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I wish it would at least leave the name of the song so I could remember it and find it elsewhere. Reminds me of why I started doing bookmarks on sites like Etsy vs “favoriting”.
- When it comes to music videos on youtube, it's best to save a copy in case the video gets taken down in the future.
  
  Unfortunately I didn't have a desktop/notebook for about 5 years, so I couldn't do that by my normal means. I guess I could have done screen recording while watching it.
I really hate how YouTube goes scorched earth on hidden and removed videos. I already added it to my playlist, YouTube. I'm well aware of it's contents. At least leave me the damned title so I can find it elsewhere.
You can copy and paste the video URL into the Wayback Machine, if it's decently popular there's a good chance the title and maybe even the video itself is archived.
- That is what I try to do. I search the Youtube ID and sometimes Duckduckgo will spit out a title.
By the way is there some way to search for a video title inside a long youtube playlist? I always have to resort to scrolling down a dozen times on long playlists and then use text search in the browser.
- I've never found a way to do that, unfortunately.

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