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Thanks for the links - I did a search before posting, but all three of those topics escaped me somehow. :oops: Anyway, looks like this has been a known problem for at least an entire year. None of the developers use square brackets in their filenames, I guess :) From my experience, it only takes the...

Hey everyone! I'm guessing this is a bug: In a M3U playlist, any relative path that contains a square bracket (opening or closing) can't be loaded, e.g.: path/file[.mp3 However, if the path is absolute , it works: /full/path/file[.mp3 It also works if I URL-encode the square bracket as %5B and %5D (...

If the entry contains non-URL characters, we try to fix them up. This works nicely for, notably, white spaces. But you're going off-topic. This thread is not about how to read playlists, but how to write them. Guess I'll just file a bug report then. Thanks anyway. [Edit] Nevermind, I found 19567 . ...

First off, thanks for answering! Of course, it does support them. That's why people complain: VLC writes relative URLs (for reasons outlined previously) when some other tools expect relatives file paths. Ok, got that wrong. It's really a shame that the M3U "spec" is that ambiguous - it's j...

I just stumbled upon this issue because VLC refuses to load (!) any of my old playlists and I tried to get behind the problem. I understand the reasoning behind saving M3U files using URLs even for local files, even though I agree that an additional option to save it "the old way" would be...