If you ever wondered how to loop a video on youtube, this article interests you. And the thing is, you can’t do it as it is, it’s not one of the options you can find in the portal video button panel. But you care because, like millions of other people, you use YouTube to listen to music.

So you listen to music on YouTube. Good. But why the loop? For different reasons: there are those who grab a song and want to listen to it until they’re exhausted until they end up hating it, a true classic; there are those who use certain songs for something specific, that’s where those popular videos with a trendy theme that repeats on loop for hours come from; and there will be a thousand and one different purposes in between.

And the last point: why listen to music on YouTube when there are more sophisticated services for lovers of the fourth art? Because – and this applies to profiles such as student or worker, two of those most likely to listen to music on YouTube and do it on loop – the quantity and quality of “background music” (variations of classical music, electronic versions of film scores, series and games and a thousand other things background music) that are on YouTube cannot be found on any other platform.

How to loop a video on YouTube

So there you have it, first thing in the head: the best way to loop a YouTube video is to… do it via YouTube Music. YouTube Music, yes, Google’s specific service for listening to music, where you will find the option integrated into the playback controls, both to repeat a single song and with a playlist.

This is absolutely the best way to repeat what you want, with one sad exception: not everything on YouTube can be heard on YouTube Music. So you can find music material on YouTube, but also spoken material, such as a podcast, which you cannot access on YouTube Music. Nonsense, because no matter how much something has been recorded to be seen, there will be those who may prefer to just hear it, but that’s the way it is.

In the latter case, a simple way to loop YouTube videos is the unoriginally named YouTube Repeater service. All you have to do is copy the URL of the video you are interested in…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZals4U6Z_I

…and edit the domain name instead of “youtube.com”, “youtuberepeater.com”:

https://www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=AZals4U6Z_I

You can also use a local media player like VLC to play YouTube videos with all its options including looping and many more, but for simplicity and immediacy, especially if you’re still looking for something new to listen to, these are more immediate. First YouTube Musica and then others.