YouTube playlist differs when viewed from MacOS vs. Windows - macos

I am developing a YouTube channel (not published yet). My prototype Playlist has 4 videos as I last edited the Playlist, and when viewed from other Macs, all 4 play in sequence.
But, when I access the channel through a browser on Win10, the 2nd video is missing from the playlist. Confirmed with Edge and Firefox Win10 browsers.
The only thing different about the 2nd video is that, I needed to make mods to it. I had to delete the original, post the replacement vid, then resequence the Playlist to put it where it belongs (2nd place in the Playlist).
Any idea why the Playlist comes out missing the newest video when viewed from Windows10?
Here is the private link to the Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgQb6MPMYTjyV82sR8H9hXRQ2F5s2NFsP

For private videos and playlists, the viewer must:
have a YouTube account and be signed in
have received an invitation from the channel creator
These steps were omitted in testing the channel on various of my own computers, and on friends' computers.
This is the most likely explanation. Will report back.

This was simply a problem where the odd video was posted with different visibility (Private) than the other 3 (Unlisted).
If you're not working in a high-security environment, Unlisted is much more practical for testing and reviewing pre-pub YouTubes. The browser only needs a URL pointing to the video (or playlist).
Private is for high-security projects where you cannot trust the testers to keep the links you give them private.

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In firefox it will play only the first audio request.
In IE9 no audio is played.
I am aware that the audio is never going to be safe. We are just trying to make it more difficult for common users.
After trying to find out what was going on and having contact in chat (transcript) I've come to the following conclusion: it's an caching issue.
When trying to change text in FF and requesting a new soundfile it still plays the old sound. By checking the requests and responses it looks like you are always responding with the same filename (for the audiofile) although the sound itself is different.
When downloading that soundfile or opening it in a new tab and refresh it without cache it plays the correct sound (with the new text), so I'm pretty sure about the caching.
You should find out a way to return unique filenames for different texts to prevent browser playing the cached versions.
The same applies when testing it on IE on my machine.
EDIT by OP
Wanted to add that the reason it was not working on my IE appears to be that I am using Windows 7 N. Noted in the release notes for IE9 is the fact that Windows 7 N requires special updates to play HTML5 video. They do not mention HTML5 audio, but it is my assumption that this is the problem.

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