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The chromecast experience is awful for me. I think the assumed I'd only ever have one youtube tab open but that's now how I use youtube. I Ctrl/Cmd Click videos
by greggman 9y ago
The chromecast experience is awful for me. I think the assumed I'd only ever have one youtube tab open but that's now how I use youtube. I Ctrl/Cmd Click videos, have lots of window open, want to be able to add and/or control the chromecast youtube playback from all tabs but only one is active and even then it's pretty awful. No way to set the playback position if you've gone off looking for more videos to play back. If you're watching any kind of lectures/ted talks or anything else that you'd like to playback at a faster speed there's no way to do it.
it's also super flaky often getting lost/unresponsive. I have to manually disconnect chrome, close all the youtube tabs and start over.
Other non-chromecast youtube issues are the fact that it knows everything I've watched but still 5% to 25% of the stuff it's recommending is stuff I've already watched. If they want me to watch more it really needs to be 100% new stuff.
The hidden ways to find my own videos or playlists always drive me nuts. Because the UI changes based on width the options disappear.
Another minor grievance, playlists with deleted videos don't show the titles. I have playlists with missing videos. I'd like to know what I lost. The name of the deleted video would be super helpful.
A major one for me is the volume controls on chromecast. Chromecast is built into my TV (Sony Android). The issue is no device I've ever owned in my life controls the TV volume from the device. Instead at most it controls it's own output level to the TV but the TV itself controls its own volume. So, the Chromecast youtube experience is that the volume control in the webpage directly controls the TV's volume. You can imagine this has woken up my neighbors serval times late at night when it decides to set my TV at full volume
- Sujan 9y agoSo you are mainly unhappy with Chromecast and its integration in Youtube, right?