TrackRescue

Check public playlist health for free, or use a TrackRescue plan for monitoring and controlled repairs.

# TrackRescue for Chrome TrackRescue brings free playlist health checks, continuous monitoring, and controlled playlist repair tools directly into Chrome’s side panel. Open TrackRescue alongside the YouTube playlist in your active tab. With a connected TrackRescue account, you can run a free, read-only health check on a public or publicly readable unlisted playlist—no paid plan required. Users with an active TrackRescue plan can protect playlists they own, run on-demand scans, review missing or hidden entries, inspect at-risk privacy and regional availability findings, manage duplicates within and across protected playlists, compare replacement evidence, and confirm playlist changes without repeatedly switching back to the TrackRescue dashboard. ## Free Playlist Health Check * Automatically detect the YouTube playlist open in the active tab. * Run a free, read-only health check on a public or publicly readable unlisted playlist. * View aggregate counts of unavailable, hidden, at-risk, and exact duplicate entries. * See one sanitized preview of a detected finding. * Check whether the current playlist is already protected by TrackRescue. ## Playlist Protection and Monitoring * Add a playlist you own to your protected selection. * Select and monitor protected playlists directly from the side panel. * Run an on-demand playlist scan. * View the current number of pending repairs. * Access missing, at-risk, and duplicate findings from one categorized Review Queue. An active TrackRescue plan and a connected YouTube account are required for playlist protection, monitoring, scanning, cleanup, and repair features. ## Missing and Hidden Entries * Review missing and hidden playlist entries. * Compare ranked replacement candidates. * Attempt to recover missing metadata when supporting evidence is available. * Evaluate the currently open YouTube video as a possible replacement. * Review the available evidence and confirm a replacement before TrackRescue changes the playlist. * Ignore an entry without changing anything on YouTube. ## At-Risk Review TrackRescue keeps at-risk entries separate from missing entries and never includes them in automatic repair. * Review unlisted and region-restricted videos separately. * See which monitored countries are affected. * View and search the complete regional availability metadata reported by YouTube. * Open the original video on YouTube before deciding whether an alternative is needed. * Search for an alternative only when you request it, and explicitly confirm any replacement. ## Duplicate Cleanup Within and Across Playlists Duplicate review within and across protected playlists is included with every active TrackRescue plan. * Review exact duplicate entries and possible alternative uploads within one playlist. * Compare titles, thumbnails, playlist positions, channels, durations, and available upload evidence. * Keep each wanted version independently, including different recordings of the same song. * Find the same YouTube video across different protected playlists, including playlists from different connected YouTube accounts. * See which playlists contain each copy and its position in each playlist. * Keep all wanted copies or select individual copies for removal from playlists you own, while retaining at least one copy. * Preview every proposed removal and explicitly confirm before TrackRescue changes anything on YouTube. * TrackRescue checks the current playlist state before removal. * Attempt to undo the latest eligible duplicate cleanup for each affected playlist. Open Review Queue → Duplicates → Across playlists to review shared videos. Cross-playlist comparison uses saved scans from at least two protected playlists and matches identical YouTube video IDs, not merely similar song titles. Intentional overlaps do not lower playlist health scores or trigger warning notifications. TrackRescue never removes these copies automatically. ## Notifications * Receive a Chrome notification when the amount of pending repair work increases. * Receive a separate notification when a new at-risk finding appears after the initial baseline. * Review missing, at-risk, and duplicate findings in the categorized Review Queue. ## Privacy and Account Control TrackRescue reads the active tab’s URL only while the extension’s side panel is open, solely to identify a supported YouTube playlist or video. The extension does not inject content scripts, scrape YouTube pages, monitor unrelated browser tabs, download audio or video files, or store Google or YouTube OAuth credentials. TrackRescue uses a separate, revocable extension session. Connected browser sessions can be reviewed and revoked from TrackRescue Settings. When looking for lost titles in public archives, the server sends only the video ID or watch URL to the Internet Archive, not your account identity, cookies, OAuth credentials, or private playlist contents. ## Requirements * Google Chrome 114 or newer and a TrackRescue account. * A public or publicly readable unlisted playlist for the free, read-only health check. * An active TrackRescue plan and a connected YouTube account for protected-playlist monitoring, scanning, cleanup, and repair. * At least two scanned, protected playlists for cross-playlist comparison. * Ownership and permission to edit the playlist before TrackRescue can perform confirmed changes on YouTube. ## Plans and Billing TrackRescue plans are purchased directly from TrackRescue. Google and the Chrome Web Store do not process TrackRescue subscriptions.