JukeTube

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET Staff on February 27, 2009

You can load up on YouTube videos and queue them up for continuous play, but this free app suffers from a poorly designed user interface.

To run JukeTube, you have to allow your computer to run ActiveX controls and scripts. A black, blank screen greets you at startup. The interface is not at all intuitive and a help menu isn't in sight. The search field is gray, which makes it really difficult to read what you're typing, and you can't change the default color. Our searches quickly yielded a list of videos from YouTube, though, and each new video that we clicked was instantly added to our queue. Removing videos was just as quick and easy. Our list of videos played without interruption, one right after the other. With such a large, blank screen behind it, it would have been nice if we could expand the video display to full screen. Clicking each video took us directly to the YouTube site, which really led us to question the purpose of the program altogether. It works fine once you get the hang of it, but you can just as easily go to YouTube, create a playlist, and play videos to your heart's desire.

If you're looking for a program for continuous play of your favorite videos, and don't mind the ugly interface, this program does work and it's offered at no charge.