Frequently Asked Questions
Want to use a video player other than the specified ones
This gimmick supports YamaPlayer, iwaSync, and VizVid.
However, since compatibility work is done for each video player individually, integration with video players is limited to these.
Therefore, when using with video players other than those specified, direct playback from playlist and adding to queue is not possible.
You’ll need to copy the URL from the playlist and paste it into the video player.
If that’s acceptable, you can use players other than those specified.
but from v2.0.0 onwards, you only need to import the video player you’re using.
What’s the song limit?
It’s designed for about 1000 songs, with a specification limit of 6600 songs. (This is an estimate, not a guarantee)
While I haven’t investigated the upper limit, I’ve confirmed that at least around 400 songs work stably.
However, with extremely large numbers, thumbnail loading simply takes a very long time, so I recommend keeping it reasonable.
How fast do thumbnails load?
Thumbnails are loaded 66 at a time, taking about 7 seconds initially.
From the second time onwards, they’re picked up from cache so it takes less than 1 second.
Loading after playlist updates also takes about 7 seconds, then becomes less than 1 second from the next load.
※“Initial” refers to whether there’s cache, so if someone loads it, the next person to load will be faster. ※ Due to Udon constraints, image loading can only be done every 5 seconds, so even if thumbnails can be retrieved immediately, loading the next 66 takes 5 seconds.
Some songs won’t load…
The URL input might be wrong on the spreadsheet side, or the sheet formula might be incorrect.
If you’re not sure, please contact me.
Column D is hidden, so you can show it and check if there are any red rows or if the calculation formulas are messed up.
How much usage reaches YouTube API rate limits? And what happens when reached?
For personal use in home worlds, there’s no problem, but using it in worlds with many visits may reach the limit.
However, it’s designed to basically work even when API rate limits are reached, so reaching API rate limits causes almost no problems with using this gimmick.
Details are explained below.
- When I briefly tested before, the API usage calculation from GAS was more lenient than what’s documented officially, so this explanation may be inaccurate.
- This explanation is written assuming API rate limits are hit according to documentation.
Per user, the video information retrieval API can be called 10,000 times per day.
Also, video information retrieval requests can request 50 videos at a time.
Since video list requests are made every time someone enters the world:
- Playlist with 50 videos: API limit reached at 10,000 visits per day
- Playlist with 500 videos: API limit reached at 1,000 visits per day
However, this would mean video information becomes unavailable quite early for some worlds, so when it can’t be retrieved from the API, it retrieves from cache instead.
Therefore, even when API usage limits are reached, video titles display normally except for newly added videos.
When videos are added to the playlist after reaching API usage limits, the titles of added videos become error codes.
Thumbnail display and video playback work fine.
Want to create multiple playlists
If you want to create multiple types of playlists using the author’s server, I provide guidance individually.
Feel free to contact me.
If you’re hosting it yourself, you can create multiple playlists by setting it up in multiple directories.