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Posted: **23 Sep 2021 08:55**

I made a change in my/ a .xspf playlist true "Notepad ++"
but obviously made some mistake somewhere (it won't open).
(It's too late to step back with the Undo function,
I have too little memory on my computer to have
a "Restore point" - would in itself appreciate if
someone knows how to make such a setting for
just these small programs/ files).

I've reviewed the 900+ or so item playlist several times
but I can't find the fault.

I've searched the web for some program to correct it
with but found nothing, do any of you know of one ?

ASUS UX305CA (Laptop), Windows 10 Home
Processor: lntel(R) Core(TM) m3-6Y30 CPU @ 0.90GHz 1.51 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 8.00 GB (7.90 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor

VLC 3.0.16 Vetinari

Posted: **25 Sep 2021 13:25**

System Restore needs to be enabled on Windows 10 unlike previous versions of Windows where it was enabled by default: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/window ... m-restore/

As regards your playlist file you might try the Superuser site: https://superuser.com/ They might know of a way to find the fault.

Posted: **25 Sep 2021 15:55**

playlists are XML. Run xml a validator or open it in firefox/chrome, that will point out the issues

Posted: **26 Sep 2021 05:21**

Thank you for your answers!

One of the better ones I used, Validate XML files
identified a problem which I corrected.

I'm not expecting you to help me with the rest of it,
as Hitchhiker commented,
that, I will have to post in another Forum,
but just to point out how difficult this is,
after the 1st problem corrected, Mozilla gave:

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Erreur d’analyse XML : balise ne correspondant pas. Attendu : </track>.
Emplacement : file:///C:/Users/Vaganza/Documents/playlists/Caching%201500%20VLC,%201a%20Different%20Channels%20.xspf
Numéro de ligne 6830, Colonne 4 :
	</trackList>
----------^

and Code Beautify (and the similar with others):

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Error : InvalidTag
Line : 6830
Message : Closing tag 'track' is expected inplace of 'trackList'.

and then "Validate..." goes on to say:

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Errors in the XML document:
	6830:	9	The end-tag for element type "track" must end with a '>' delimiter.

showing the problem area:

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6823	<track>
6824	<location>http://Streamer/username/password/xxxxx</location>
6825	<title>Travel Channel</title>
6826	<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
6827	<vlc:id>977</vlc:id>
6828	</extension>
6829	</track>
6830	</track
List>
6831	<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
6832	<vlc:item tid="0"/>

How it looks now. Can you detect the error ? (rhetorical question) :

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	<track>
6824	<location>http://Streamer/username/password/xxxxx</location>
			<title>Travel Channel</title>
			<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
				<vlc:id>977</vlc:id>
			</extension>
		</track>
	</trackList>
6831 	<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
		<vlc:item tid="0"/>

In another list, which is okay, it ends with:

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			</extension>
		</track>
	</trackList>
7157 	<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
		<vlc:item tid="0"/>

pasted the correct ending in the faulty list to no avail.

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