[bromix]

I sat down and played with Alpha 25 for a long time tonight and took some notes. I'd like to start by saying this addon is amazing so far and I am not complaining at all. This is just a lot of things I would like to see in the addon to make it "perfect" and meant to be some food for thought.

1) Auto View - I know this is on the to do list, but obviously it would be huge. For best results, the addon should have several veiws: Videos, Channels, Playlists and Default/Lists.
2) Ability to dislike videos as well as like
3) Icons/Thumbs - The addon should have all icons in multiple sizes, so that when the skin calls for a 16:9 thumb as opposed to a fanart or whatever, it fits all views in all skins. Not sure if this is really workable, as I don't really know how skins call for these images, but it would be amazing.
4) The ability to create playlists and to add videos to playlists
5) Is it possible to make boolean expressions work in search? I would love to be able to narrow results by searching for p[hrases in quotes, or to search with things like: -whatever
6) Under "My Subscriptions", I would like it if only unwatched videos would show up. Maybe an option to toggle "hide watched videos in subscriptions"? Obviously we could still watch any of our subscriptions from the "subscriptions" section, but then "My Subscriptions" would be more like a watchlist
7) Liking videos in the addon does not make them show up in "Liked Videos" section
8) Currently "History" section doesn't seem to save anything. Is this supposed to be recently viewed videos?

Sorry so long. Let me know what you think. Keep up the good work Bromix.

1) Yes, something will come for that...not exactly described by you, because based on each skin this feature isn't so easy as it sounds.
2) Dislike is removing the video from the playlist 'Liked Videos' sorry that this works different from the webpage, but so it is how APIv3 is working
3) No, and I won't even begin with details that are based on each skin.
4) YES! Already on the todo, but first we need to resolve some issues
5) for now no, this is not the kind of search you would do on the webpage. Ever consider a user in front of a normal TV with normal remote (even if it is a HTPC).
6) Use Kodi/XBMX internal functions to filter
7) It could take some time for the server to sync the result with your account. This feature is working...is't the same for Watch Later
8) Yes, but the API is broken since the beginning. Google doesn't allow it to add a watched video to the Watch History (playlist) I don't no why.

I know, it just gets to be a pain because there is no way to have it work only on specific lists only. Then I am forced to toggle it on and off each time I enter a new area in XBMC. Having it as an option in the addon would make it automatic.

Also, I just looked inside the addon again and I noticed that videos don't seem to be marked as watched within the addon anyways, which may make things difficult either way. Or it may just be another feature to request
It also strikes me that if the addon is not marking videos as watched in YouTube, that might explain why History doesn't seem to track anything.

Some basic background here
What you see on the webpage has nothing to with the History or marking a video watched. This feature doesn't exist in any way. What you see as marked 'Watched' is locally on the PC. Try an Incognito Mode in your browser, watch some videos, they will be marked as watched. Leave the modus and reenter your account. The videos are not marked as 'Watched" anymore. The same will haben if you use a disk-cleaning-tool, to remove cookies and temporal files.
It's also not based on the history of watched videos. If so, why wouldn't a video be marked as 'unwatched' if I remove the video from the list. So ergo, I have no possibility to gather the information from the server, if a video was watched by me. This feature doesn't exist.
I would be happy if so