God Bless. Sometimes I think I should just write a script, because it is a bit of a pain, but really Jim should just write a script to play shorts. The URL cannot be read by this site because it is using a regex expression to check the signature of the URL, but that was before shorts were implemented on YT, and they are a valid URL and video stream, just not here. It would be simple or statement in the regex of type a or b, a URL with or without /short/ in essence.