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kdean, I see what you mean, and I did discover that you can hide the content of the lists, but not the headers. I'm just getting an ugly notion that this design choice (forcing people to see some feature they do not want) is the first step from a minimalistic workhorse program (VLC 1.9.x) to a featu...

I realize that is an option, but functionally you need to be able to switch from playlist to media library, forcing you to constantly hide/unhide the sidebar. The work flow of the program broken without the sidebar, which is why the hide option will only work for users who are only in playlist mode.

I love VLC as much as anybody, having used it over the years on several platforms and computers, even to the point of force-uninstalling feature-bloated iTunes from my Apple computer, enjoying the utter simplicity of VLC 1.x Media Library function. It am saddened to see how VLC 2.x is aping the inte...