Fan 4.2.1 Launched : Save videos to watch later
This week, we launched a new version of the Fan 4 application. The new version includes a new "My Playlist" tab. This entry is a quick introduction to that feature.
If you are an active user of the Fan, you know that the Fan lets you queue the videos you would like to watch by selecting them from the browse menu under the player. However a few people have complained about a couple of features of that functionality:
1) If you didn't want to see the videos that had been selected by the editorial team, you would have to clear all videos by clicking on the "Clear Videos" button on top and then start adding your videos to the playlist. A lot of people missed the clear button as well and ended up adding videos at the end of the editorial playlist but the addition was not obvious.
2) There was no persistence of the user playlist between sessions. You could save a lot more videos to a playlist but end up watching only a few of them at one pass. Coming back to the fan at a later time would not show the videos you had added.
To address these concerns, we introduced the "My Playlist" tab. Adding videos by clicking on the +playlist button now adds it to your playlist which is completely independent of the editorial playlist. You can choose whether you want to see the editorial playlist or your playlist by clicking on the corresponding tab on top of the player.
The videos are saved on the browser so the next time you return to the Fan, your playlist shows all the videos you had saved in your earlier sessions. You can remove videos from your playlist by clicking on the 'x' icon in the list or remove all videos by clicking on the "Clear All" button on the top.
Hopefully you will like this new feature. Happy browsing :).