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Put your YouTube messages on your radio station

Tutorial · Updated

Open Past messages in your admin, paste your YouTube channel's link and tap Find my videos. Export your videos with Google Takeout (or download one or two in YouTube Studio), then tap Choose the videos folder. Your computer takes out just the sound, and each message plays on your station between live broadcasts, sorted into series.

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Step by step

  1. Open Past messages. In your admin, open Broadcasts → Past messages (also linked from the studio and Station).
  2. Find your videos. Paste your channel's link (e.g. youtube.com/@yourchurch) and tap Find my videos. AltarPage reads your channel's public list, so each message gets its title, date and series (your playlists).
  3. Export your whole channel. At takeout.google.com, signed in with the account that owns the channel: tap Deselect all, tick YouTube and YouTube Music, and under All YouTube data included keep only videos. Tap Next step, then Create export. Google emails you when it's ready; download it and unzip it.
  4. Or just one or a few. In YouTube Studio → Content, open a video's ⋮ menu and choose Download.
  5. Choose them. On a computer or in AltarPage Studio, tap Choose the videos folder (or Or choose files). Keep the page open: each row shows its progress, then ✓ On your station.
  6. Listen. Open your station: your messages play between live broadcasts, day and night, listed under Messages by series.

What happens to the videos

Your browser takes out the sound and uploads only that, about 20 MB an hour. The video never leaves your computer. Each message gets its own page to share, plays on your station, and never counts towards your broadcast hours. Very long services are encoded a little lighter; four hours is the limit for one message.

Only your own messages

Import only your ministry's own videos, or ones you have the owner's permission for. AltarPage never downloads anything from YouTube itself: you export your own videos, and you choose them here. Music in them follows the usual rules: see do churches need a licence to stream music?.

On a phone

Phones can't choose a folder, so tap Choose videos from this phone to add videos saved on it. For a whole channel, use a computer or the AltarPage Studio desktop app: a phone can run out of memory on long services.

No titles showing?

If your channel can't be read, you can still import: each file's name becomes its title, so Takeout's files (named after each video) still look right.