Version 2.13

In the app store now. All users should download.

In addition to bug fixes, there is one major feature addition and one YouTube-required consent dialogue.

Better Video Playlist Management

If you’re using Takedown’s video features, you’re most likely aware of YouTube’s daily playlist creation limit which is not published but is very real nonetheless. The daily playlist creation limit seems to be in the 10-25 range though, again, this is an unpublished YouTube limit.

Takedown creates, on your behalf, two types of playlists in your YouTube account: (1) Event Playlists and (2) Wrestler Playlists. These playlists are created during video upload in Manage Video. Since Takedown attempts to create the Event Playlist first, there’s a high probability of success especially if you haven’t uploaded any other events on the same day.

However, large teams attending early season tournaments are likely to hit the daily playlist creation limit as Takedown attempts to create a playlist for each wrestler for whom video has been uploaded. The consequence of hitting this limit is that the wrestler videos are uploaded to your YouTube account, but all of the corresponding Wrestler Playlists might not have been created.

As the season proceeds, each attempt to upload videos and create Wrestler Playlists is more successful and, eventually all Wrestler Playlists are created. However, newly created Wrestler Playlists won’t contain uploaded videos from earlier in the season when creating the Wrestler Playlist failed. These videos exist on your YouTube account, but are “orphaned” with respect to the associated Wrestler Playlist.

The new “Fix Playlists” feature (in Manage Video) attempts to correct the “orphaned” video problem by comparing the video contents of each Wrestler Playlist on YouTube with Takedown’s on-device database of successfully uploaded videos for the wrestler in question. If Takedown determines that there are one or more videos for a wrestler that aren’t in their corresponding YouTube Wrestler Playlist, it will add those videos to the Wrestler Playlist.

Note that “Fix Playlists” doesn’t create new YouTube playlists — it simply attempts to improve the accuracy of existing YouTube playlists.

For information on using Fix Playlists, see our Support article.

YouTube Required Consent

Every thirty days we are required by YouTube to solicit your consent for managing Takedown-created YouTube assets on your behalf. Respond accordingly when you see the consent dialogue in Manage Video.

Video Dooze and Dontz

YouTube is an open platform meaning that you can credential into your YouTube account outside of Takedown and do stuff like upload videos, delete/create playlists, edit videos, add channels and channel sections, etc. Some of this activity will not impact Takedown while certain activities will seriously degrade Takedown’s ability to manage YouTube content on your behalf.

To get the best video experience using Takedown, follow these suggestions.