Newpipe: Start playing from here/ Enqueue from here

[MD77MD]

Checklist

• [x] I checked, but didn't find any duplicates (open OR closed) of this issue in the repo.
• [x] I have read the contribution guidelines given at https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/HEAD/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• [x] This issue contains only one feature request. I will open one issue for every feature I want to request.

Describe the feature you want

Although after merging #4425 (Replace specific enqueue options with one done by @vkay94 ) made enqueueing videos alot easier, one key change that was needed was overlooked, that is the ability to start play/enqueue videos from the middle of playlist.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe it

The problem is if you want to start playing/enqueue videos from the middle of a playlist, you can't. you can use a work around which is start playing in background/pup-up mode then change to full screen mode however that not right. or you can enqueue videos, one by one, which is not practical especially in big playlists to say the least.

Additional context

I wish if we could add to context menu:

• Start playing from here and
• Enqueue from here when a video is playing
  

How will you/everyone benefit from this feature?

This would not only solve playing playlist from the middle but also able is to enqueue playlist while a video is playing

[ShareASmile]

..yeah it is was there in v0.16.2 but was removed in 0.17.0. It was really helpful. I miss it just like yesterday. Probably needs a couple of lines of code.

[BartFarley]

This feature existed in all versions up to 16.2. It was then deleted by @stypox. He said it was "useless". It wasn't.
The following people complained, and were ignored and lied to.

@jojoxl01
@xak2000
@jojoxl01
@xak2000
@astamminger
@LukasThyWalls
@geekyjazzy
@kurobon-jp
@alittlebitofit
@caogia
@bartfarley

[MD77MD]

..yeah it is was there in v0.16.2 but was removed in 0.17.0. It was really helpful. I miss it just like yesterday. Probably needs a couple of lines of code.

really, i guess i was late to the party 😁, anyway like you said this makes things alot easier.

[astamminger]

Pinging:

@jojoxl01
@xak2000
@jojoxl01
@xak2000
@astamminger
@LukasThyWalls
@geekyjazzy
@kurobon-jp
@alittlebitofit
@caogia
@BartFarley

Why was @BartFarley's comment marked as "disruptive comment" when it is nothing but the truth? Please stop silencing / ignoring opinions that do not align with what you think. You did that to me as well when I was explaining why that feature was essential to me and was told by more than one of the devs that this function cannot be essential to me because they don't use it at all. (That was a little WTF-Moment for me to be honest)

Anyway, let's be constructive: I see that my suggestion to put the button toggling the auto-play function in a more prominent position has been implemented in the meantime. If someone could finally fix the list of upcoming videos to only contain the playlist items in an ordered fashion if a video was started from a playlist that would solve all the problems and make the play from here obsolete.

Cheers
Andreas

[opusforlife2]

If the tone of a comment is aggressive or even passive-aggressive, it will be minimized. You are free to ping all the people for whom this issue is relevant, sure, but directly or indirectly attacking a developer who volunteers their free time will not be tolerated.

Since your comment quotes the entire previous comment, I'm editing it a little bit.

[astamminger]

@opusforlife2 that's understandable, of course, but I'm under the constant impression that criticism gets confused with aggression here far too easily.

[opusforlife2]

I'm not aware of this happening since I've started maintaining issues. Can you give other examples? I would like to analyse them.

[astamminger]

@opusforlife2 Sorry if I was a bit unclear here maybe but I was talking about this specific thread because imho there‘s no aggression in @BartFarley‘s comment but facts

[opusforlife2]

When you said "constant impression", I thought you had more than one instance in mind...

[astamminger]

Yeah, that‘s what I meant with being unclear. Sorry about that.

[BartFarley]

Firstly, thank you @astamminger. You get it. Every sentence in my last comment was the truth. No agression. No attack. Just the facts.
I love NewPipe. I use it every day. Been using it since, I believe, version 13.0 or so. When you use an app that much, and see it improve and grow it's a great thing. The developers add new features once in a while, improving the software for the users.
People get used to, and depend on these features. Like say, for instance, playing a playlist, full screen, starting from any video in that playlist.
One or more of you developer types took the time to write the code implementing that feature. Volunteers. It's quite a bit of code too. I can tell because if you look at what was deleted from 16.2 to remove this feature, it was many lines of code.
Now, I for one would be a mighty angry volunteer coder if someone just went in, and deleted all my hard work without a reasonable explanation.
The result is the disappearance of a feature that people like and use. Poof!! Gone.
There's more I could say about this, and other related items, but I see no joy in typing on my phone.

Version 20+ is a disaster.

Please put "play from here" back in

Don't become the latest FireFox (Disaster)

Gnome 3 flashbacks!

Implementing an audio volume normalizer in NewPipe would be useful.

[opusforlife2]

@BartFarley @astamminger Are you and the users you linked aware of #2518?

[BartFarley]

I can only speak for myself. Yes, I'm aware of #2518.
Are you aware of https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/2368#issue-283397509 , the paragraph that starts with:
"I decided to remove..." ?

[Stypox]

We developers can't unfortunately implement everyone's needs without breaking sombody else's. That's why I decided to make menus consistent and remove an action that only saved really little time (and now thanks to unified ui is not needed anymore). I get that some of you may have needed it, but all of the other people would just get confused by a long list of possible action and say "I can't understand NewPipe and it is really inconsistent, better to stick with YouTube". Therefore for now this will stay as it is, until a proper solution is implemented. I proposed #2583, trying to suit everyone's needs, but then I realised that would also be bad for people not much into technology. Another solution is needed.

[astamminger]

That's why I decided to [...] remove an action that only saved really little time

@Stypox can you please elaborate on this? What do you mean by "saved really little time"? Compared to what? I certainly might be missing something here but back then "Start playing from here" was my only option to start from a specific (video!) playlist track and auto-queue the upcoming videos from the playlist and only from the playlist. That was because enabling the auto-play option from the menu would play the selected video and continue to enqueue videos from the random list of related videos.

However! I suggested to use an auto-queue option for playlists (https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2510#issuecomment-537584700 :D) and I am happy to see that this has been finally implemented and works.

Thank you guys :thumbsup: