[Feature Request]: Add the ability to sort videos by duration

[MechaMAKS]

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Problem Description

When browsing a channel's videos or a large playlist, it can be difficult to quickly find content based on its duration.

For example, I may only have a few minutes and want to watch a short video, or I may specifically be looking for long-form content such as podcasts, documentaries, or lectures. Currently, this requires manually scanning the duration of every video.

Proposed Solution

Add a "Duration" sorting option alongside the existing sorting methods.

Suggested sorting options:

• Shortest → Longest
• Longest → Shortest

The feature could be available wherever the current sorting options are shown (channel videos, playlists, subscriptions, etc.).

Alternatives Considered

The only current alternative is to manually look through the list and compare the duration of each video, which becomes impractical for large playlists or channels with many uploads.

Issue Labels

improvement to existing feature

FreeTube Version

v0.24.1 Beta

Operating System Version

Windows 10

Installation Method

.exe

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[ozrendev]

This feature should be working when viewing a saved playlist. Can you see the filter options when you view a playlist from "Playlists" button in the sidebar?

Does it make sense to have this anywhere else? For pre-made playlists, the videos already have a set order. If you want to modify it (even if just the viewing order), I feel like it makes sense to copy it to your own playlist and modify it from there?

I agree this would be a nice feature to have in when viewing channels. Although channel filters are currently broken, but #9325 fixes this - so this issue will depend on that PR being merged

Edit: Actually not sure how it would work with Channels, since it only fetches a fixed amount of videos and selecting Sort By refreshes all channels in the current view. Someone more knowledgeable should be able to address this better

[MechaMAKS]

Hello and thank you for your reply,

• I do not have any saved playlists on Freetube at the moment, but i was intending to import mine from Youtube when the playlist issue would be solved.

• No i do not see this button (please refer to the screenshot)

• Although i was refering to the video order within the playlist, I agree that sorting playlist by total video duration is also a nice feature.

• I also understand your point about preserving the author's intended order, so if this feature were limited to channel pages, that would still cover some part of my use case.

[absidue]

As mentioned by @ozrendev for playlists that you created in FreeTube that option is already available. For channels and YouTube playlists YouTube doesn't provide that option, so the only way to do that in FreeTube would be for FreeTube to download the list of every single video in the channel/playlist and then sort it on your device, which would require making 34 separate requests for a channel with just 1000 videos, which would be a stupid waste of resources and your time, therefore it is definitely out-of-scope of FreeTube.