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It's not miserable whining, it's a legitimate bug that has been introduced in the 3.x series that apparently the VLC developers didn't think important enough to fix immediately.

Just this morning I upgraded to v3.08 (macOS) and VLC still throws an error on my relative-path .m3u playlists containing "#" ("07 - Public Animal #9.flac") and just plain deletes track listings containing "[]" from its playlist ("01 The Beatles - Love Me Do [Singl...