YouTube problems

This device doesn’t play YouTube videos

A song’s YouTube video plays in Stab on the Mac and on the web. Here, a song that has one opens and plays as usual without it, and its Video pane says “This song’s YouTube video plays in Stab on the Mac and on the web.” The video stays in the song, with its pins, for the devices that play it.

To practise with the recording on this device, use a file of the same performance: Recordings and video brings one in.

The link isn’t taken

When you add a video, the field says “Paste a YouTube link (youtube.com/watch?v=…, youtu.be/…)”. If it says “That isn’t a link to a YouTube video.”, what you pasted isn’t one: copy the link again from YouTube’s address bar or its Share button. Links to a channel, a playlist alone or a search aren’t videos.

A song you can only read can’t take a video: adding one is an edit.

The video won’t play

The Video pane says why:

• “This video can’t be played outside YouTube.” (then “Replace with File… on its lane keeps the pins.”) The video’s owner has turned off playing it in other sites and apps, so it plays only on YouTube itself. Nothing in Stab changes that. If you have the same performance as a file, Replace with File… on the lane’s menu puts it in the video’s place and keeps your pins: see Replace with File. Replace with File is on the Mac: the web doesn’t offer it.
• “This video is gone or private.” (then “Replace with File… on its lane keeps the pins.”) It was removed or made private on YouTube. The song keeps its pins.
• “This isn’t a video YouTube knows.” The link’s video id doesn’t exist; check the link.
• “YouTube can’t be reached. Check the connection.” The video plays from YouTube, so it needs the connection; a network that blocks YouTube stops it too.
• “YouTube didn’t recognise Stab (error 153). Please tell us.” Write to [email protected] with the video’s link.
• “YouTube’s player couldn’t play this video.” YouTube refused it for another reason, sometimes for a while only. Try again later, or open the video on YouTube to see what it says.

YouTube may also show ads before or during a video, as it decides.

The video doesn’t show

• “Make this pane larger to show the video”: YouTube’s player needs room. Make the Video pane larger, or give it more of the window.

The video and your parts are out of step

• At the start of a play, your parts come in a moment after the video, once Stab has caught the video’s time. They stay together from then on.
• If the bars don’t follow the performance, the song’s tempo isn’t the video’s yet: pin bars or beats to moments of the video with sync pins, and choose Recording Leads on the lane’s menu.
• At a practice speed, the video plays at the song’s speed to the nearest 5 %, from a quarter of the speed to twice as fast.