Add Toggle to Ignore Watch Progress Within Playlists

[quantenzitrone]

Problem Description:
When I have music playing in the background and the next song that autoplays is a song I have last time only heard until the middle, FreeTube starts playing from the middle, which is annoying.

One nice solution:
Option to not save watched progress for music videos.

Another possible solution:
Option to ignore saved progress in autoplay or playlist play.

[PrestonN]

There's not really anything we can do to differentiate between a music video and a non-music video. I would recommend just disabling the feature in your settings if you don't want FreeTube to save watch progress.

We could technically make this behavior specifically for playlists, though I'm not keen on having this be the default as I imagine most users wouldn't want this behavior. I would only accept this feature as a toggle.

[ChunkyProgrammer]

There's not really anything we can do to differentiate between a music video and a non-music video. I would recommend just disabling the feature in your settings if you don't want FreeTube to save watch progress.

We could technically make this behavior specifically for playlists, though I'm not keen on having this be the default as I imagine most users wouldn't want this behavior. I would only accept this feature as a toggle.

Maybe a check to see if the uploader is a "verified artist" could be done?

[PrestonN]

I imagine that would still only apply for a subset of channels and would likely miss a large amount of them. Doing a check like would also mean that any non-music video that they release wouldn't have progress saved.

I'd rather not try to isolate these type of videos and suggest that the user simply disables the feature for all videos. It's likely not worth the effort and there's a strong possibility that no solution will be perfect for isolating these types of videos.

[kommunarr]

Hi @quantenzitrone, would separation of settings by profile (#1996) fulfill your use case here adequately? If that were to be implemented, you could set your music profile to have the ignore watch progress setting enabled to achieve the same effect.

[quantenzitrone]

i don't know, I'm not using FreeTube anymore rn, should i close this issue then?

[kommunarr]

That's fine, I think we'll keep this one closed unless other users express interest in such a feature for different use cases.