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Well it's only useful if you want to retrieve the metadata

That's not useful for your playlist, it just changes the name of your window to <<Filename>> - VLC Media Player What we want is an option to do that, use the filename, but in your playlist, not the meta tags... Otherwise thanks for giving a semi-solution... But it's not what we're looking for, at le...

Unfortunately no, not any answer to this important post (at least important to me)

So, I have been searching for almost one hour, I have found many threads about this exact issue and they are, as you said, all locked down/hijacked/trolled. I would also prefer to have an option to change this paricular way to handle our video file titles. I can understand how the use of meta-data i...