Album Logic for VLC iOS

[tpacapt]

Hi. I'm uploading some sets of files that I want VLC iOS to group together as an album in the 'music album' tabs.

How do I get it to recognize them as an album from the filenames. The files have no metadata.

At the moment the files are called like:

XXXX_CD1_TrackNo01.mp3
XXXX_CD1_TrackNo02.mp3

but that's not doing it.

Thanks

[tpacapt]

Hmm, at this point it seems to be a moot point, as I can't even manage to upload more than a few files without the vlc ios crashing (and eventually needing to be deleted and reinstalled). I'll try again after the next update.

[fkuehne]

Hello,

the stability issues are mostly resolved in a pending update, which is "waiting for review" for more than a week now.

Regarding the music album grouping, VLC for iOS doesn't parse the file names (yet) for audio-only media (it does so for TV Shows) but relies on meta data. So this won't work for now unless you add meta data. Sorry about that.

[tpacapt]

Thanks for the response. At least on my ipod, the stability seemed largely related with the wifi upload - uploading via the itunes application tab has caused far fewer problems (though my original intention was to just avoid putting the files in itunes).

A completely unrelated question - if I've uploaded a music file to the 'music' folder on my ipod (ala in itunes), can VLC also access it somehow, or does it need to be uploaded again to VLC?

[fkuehne]

Regrettably, VLC for iOS may not access the music folder due API limitations by the iOS SDK.