Clear Watch Later list?

**growlf** · December 3rd, 2010, 08:59 PM

I'd like to clear my watch later list. It appears I can only delete one thing at a time - which will take an eternity. Am I missing something obvious for reseting the entire list?

Thanks!

**Prospero424** · December 3rd, 2010, 09:53 PM

Yeah, I've seen the same complaint several times and I agree that there needs to be a better way to manage the "Watch Later" queue.

Perhaps Boxee could implement queue editing on the site the same way that you can manage your feeds and services? That'd allow for a lot of flexibility. Just an idea...

**Trotski99** · December 3rd, 2010, 11:12 PM

What's interesting is that the "Watch Later" only has the ability to delete one at a time, but the "Previously Viewed" only has the ability to delete everything. It would seem that this is a loose end that hasn't been tied up yet -- like the code has been created for both, but just hasn't been added to both sections. I would assume that this will be a relatively easy feature to implement in the near future.

**Prospero424** · December 3rd, 2010, 11:23 PM

Yeah, queue editing is notoriously inconsistent when it comes to remote-based interface rather than mouse-based interfaces.

Even when this sort of editing is implemented, nobody ever seems perfectly happy with the way it was done. I think this is why it's taken so long for them to work this out. It's one of those issues that sounds trivial until you actually start implementing something concrete.

Still, I'm sure there's a happy middle ground to be had, and I'd like to see that happen sometime in the foreseeable future.

**pockets78** · December 4th, 2010, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by Trotski99

What's interesting is that the "Watch Later" only has the ability to delete one at a time, but the "Previously Viewed" only has the ability to delete everything. It would seem that this is a loose end that hasn't been tied up yet -- like the code has been created for both, but just hasn't been added to both sections. I would assume that this will be a relatively easy feature to implement in the near future.

A little off topic, but how to do you clear "Previously Viewed"? I was testing my media library out, and Boxee box has a lot of my network media as viewed, and I would like to reset everything to unwatched.

**Bixiee** · December 4th, 2010, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by Prospero424

Perhaps Boxee could implement queue editing on the site the same way that you can manage your feeds and services? That'd allow for a lot of flexibility. Just an idea...

More than an idea, this is clearly needed. A web interface where we can delete one, all or groups of things in the list.

And where we can also add links to the list (where the bookmarklet fails us)

**azzad10** · September 26th, 2011, 05:14 PM

really stupid this still hasn't been implemented, the most obvious functionality they still have overlooked...

**katejenkins** · April 10th, 2012, 05:54 PM

Welcome to Boxee!

You ain't seen nothing yet, as they say down south.

**niamu** · August 8th, 2012, 08:56 PM

So this is bumping an old thread, and I'm sorry, but I know a lot of people want something that does this just as I did. I've put in the work and got a decent start on a web interface for managing your Boxee queue. The code is open source if you want to run it on your own web server: https://github.com/niamu/boxee-watchlater

If you just want to try it out and see how it works for you, I have it hosted here: http://brendonwalsh.me/boxee/

I haven't tested anything but YouTube clips yet, so other items will likely break it. Let me know what you think and what other features you want added.