So I Am Stupid

[Jordyboy9]

I am doing something wrong in regards to putting up a song from utube can someone run through the way to do it,when you do, or if you do, remember i am old and stupid so be gentle with me,thanks in advanceXXX

[kawakiri]

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDN5rG3wLa4

[Hypognosis]

And that failed. (The Enter YouTube Link Here slot, above)

Trying again, pasting direct into the edit window

must-be-on-a-new-line-test

[kawakiri]

This one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN3ME-rgpws

[Hypognosis]

That instantly edited out the second link and it accepted the first attempt and chopped out some of what I wrote, so it looks like newline is unnecessary for a pasted link. Other than that it seems that trying to post more than one YouTube link per reply will fail.

hope this helped.

[Baldric]

Jordy, kept telling you yesterday

Media URL:
and
Description:

are not part of a working link!

[Bathsheba]

well done Jordy for not giving up

x x

[Baldric]

Media URL: https://youtu.be/5DvH9w0AkVY
Description:

[Bathsheba]

don't understand why there's a full stop in the middle of youtube :-/

x x

[Baldric]

Jordy, what part of

Media URL:
and
Description:

are not part of a working link do you not understand?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DvH9w0AkVY

[Baldric]

The link that went in the 'Enter Youtube Link Here' box is the one sitting on top of the Video

[ABSpareEditor]

Just to explain the youtu.be thing - YouTube introduced this kind of web address to make the links shorter. Here are examples of the two different addresses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orph2wkLFbI https://youtu.be/orph2wkLFbI

Notice how in the second one the following is missing: /com/watch?v=
It's to make links shorter for sharing them on Twitter etc where you have a limited character count, and I guess it makes the link look a bit neater as well.

Maybe our form doesn't like the youtu.be links - Jordyboy, can you try entering the first link above into the form?

Both types of link are available to copy and paste from YouTube. The one you should try using on AB is the one at the very top of the screen in the address bar. The other one which doesn't appear to work on AB (I'll test it in a sec) is the one you get when you click the share button underneath the video. Hopefully that all makes sense, I've attached a video to this post so hopefully it will work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orph2wkLFbI

[ABSpareEditor]

Just testing youtu.be links Media URL: https://youtu.be/orph2wkLFbI
Description:

[ABSpareEditor]

So yes, conclusion - links that look like my second post don't work but links that look like my first post do work. so make sure the link you're using doesn't contain youtu.be, but has the .com/watch?v= bit in it. Hope that helps!

[Baldric]