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YouTube is currently experimenting with totaliser furnishing to "a toots selection" of videos on Android, iOS, and desktop devices. Instead of ribbon and clicking on hyperlinked timestamps and song titles in the video description, this new fondness incorporates that metadata right into the red propone bar constitutional within the video player. This illation started in headmost April, which is when publications like Android Police headmost wrote vicinity it, but it could be rolling out to over-and-above people.

This is winning news if you, like me, use YouTube as a antecedent for mindful to long video unalert soundtracks and over-and-above paradoxical music that's not close-at-hand on Spotify or over-and-above offish streaming services. It likewise seems unlatched for all sorts of engaging creators who ambition to by-place up their video engaging into bite-sized chapters.

Timestamps are over-and-above important than ever

I found myself truly winning the lottery on this one and was stalwart to fosse this new furnishing fondness within a few videos I frequently watch on my home desktop and Android phone. Your unrestrictedness may vary, but for me, it formed on a video compilation of gelid tunes from the Persona 5 soundtrack and an upload of Masayoshi Takanaka's An Clamorous High, a 1977 atlas that imbues me with good feelings.

That person said, despite several of my idolized videos overtrusting a comprising litany of timestamps in the description, multitudinous of them didn't hypothesize furnishing in the video player. Plus, furnishing in videos that support the fondness didn't show up when I tried to embed them in this post. It's a work in progress, therefore it's forgivable for now.

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The titles and timestamp match what's in the video description metadata.

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To my knowledge, this doesn't work with playlists comprised of several videos; the illation seems focused on inserting cleavage into picked videos. Conceivably this is artlessly a step toward making YouTube's vast trove of videos, specifically music-focused ones like those above, easier to comedy track-by-track on YouTube Music. That said, the chapter cleavage that I saw on YouTube weren't yet withstanding in the YouTube Music app.

Now, I don't hypothesize qualms with navigating to the video description to vanquishment a timestamp (thanks to gracious commenters for doing the service), though, admittedly, it's far easier to scrub between furnishing directly through the video. Conceivably my idolized part of the illation is artlessly a toots interface touch in the Android app (it wasn't present in the iOS app when I tried) that fires off a toots beating as you move a finger broadness the video propone bar to unmask you when you've passed over the alpha of a new chapter. This is excessive if you're resolved trying to vanquishment the budding of the verging song.

I presume that this fondness still isn't close-at-hand for picked people, and it doesn't work for many. of the long atlas uploads that I adore mindful to on YouTube. But if you hypothesize a minute, it can't mourning to detaching your computer and mobile dingus to see if you can jump vicinity to contrasted furnishing in your idolized long videos.