Stop VLC from renaming Media Library items?

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Stop VLC from renaming Media Library items?

Postby frannie » 11 Jan 2020 12:20

This is a pic of my Media Library (note the station named Ancient FM):

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Next, I start this station, VLC obtains information from the internet, and then renames this item accordingly to it:

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Thus, my question is the following: is it possible to prevent VLC from doing this?

I tried to switch off this setting: Preferences -> Playlist -> Automatically preparse items. But it seems it's not related to my problem. I also tried to change the file permissions for the Media Library file (~/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/ml.xspf) and even the ownership. But VLC still manages to restore the default ones somehow (for the record, on Windows, setting the Read-only attribute to the very same file -- %APPDATA\vlc\ml.xspf -- does solve the problem).

So, what else can I try? What do you think? Would be grateful for any hint or suggestion :)

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Re: Stop VLC from renaming Media Library items?

Postby fkuehne » 14 Jan 2020 11:17

This name is set by the station itself and VLC will adhere to the information provided by the server as metadata. This cannot be overwritten at the moment.
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Re: Stop VLC from renaming Media Library items?

Postby frannie » 16 Jan 2020 07:16

Thanks for the reply, Felix!

But why does making the file read-only doesn't help? Why -- and, actually, how -- does VLC manage to restore the file ownership and the file permissions? I'd say that's looks like a thing that shouldn't really happen :)

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Re: Stop VLC from renaming Media Library items?

Postby fkuehne » 17 Jan 2020 11:02

I doubt that we manipulate the permissions on purpose. However, VLC on Mac runs with the same privileges you have as a user, so technically it's you giving back the write permissions.

Note that we are completely re-writing the media library for VLC 4, which will give you more options including permanently over-writing metadata.
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