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Hi, new here, but using VLC for years now...

here's a problem which is bugging me... now its more than an irritation.

I add files (mp3) to a playlist, reorder them in a sequence that pleases me, and save the playlist.

When I reopen the playlist, vlc has re-ordered the files... and in no obvious manner (ie not alphabetically, and as far as I can see neither by some form of directory order). The manner in which vlc re-orders is consistent though.

How do I override this, so that playlists are saved/reloaded with the content in the order *I* want!!

TVMIA!!

This is not a windows specific bug. It is confirmed on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows for the current version of vlc. For some reason they want to have us search the forums before posting bugs instead of having a way of searching the bug tracker .. so here goes.

The order that is preserved is actually the order in which the files were added to the playlist in the first place, not the final destination when you move them around. So what happens is if you tag a bunch of files in simple add file or add directory is that the files get added in what usually looks like alphabetical order for a given add operation. From then on if you save that is the order the playlist has. If you move files around to a different order and save, even to a new file, the new order is ignored. I'm sure this is an easy enough bug to fix.

This is not a windows specific bug. It is confirmed on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows for the current version of vlc. For some reason they want to have us search the forums before posting bugs instead of having a way of searching the bug tracker .. so here goes.

The order that is preserved is actually the order in which the files were added to the playlist in the first place, not the final destination when you move them around. So what happens is if you tag a bunch of files in simple add file or add directory is that the files get added in what usually looks like alphabetical order for a given add operation. From then on if you save that is the order the playlist has. If you move files around to a different order and save, even to a new file, the new order is ignored. I'm sure this is an easy enough bug to fix.

It looks like this is only happening for m3u playlists, at least in 0.8.6i on windows. If you save the playlist as xspf the order you create by moving files around seems to be preserved.

This is not a windows specific bug. It is confirmed on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows for the current version of vlc. For some reason they want to have us search the forums before posting bugs instead of having a way of searching the bug tracker .. so here goes.

The order that is preserved is actually the order in which the files were added to the playlist in the first place, not the final destination when you move them around. So what happens is if you tag a bunch of files in simple add file or add directory is that the files get added in what usually looks like alphabetical order for a given add operation. From then on if you save that is the order the playlist has. If you move files around to a different order and save, even to a new file, the new order is ignored. I'm sure this is an easy enough bug to fix.

It looks like this is only happening for m3u playlists, at least in 0.8.6i on windows. If you save the playlist as xspf the order you create by moving files around seems to be preserved.

No, the results for xspf are even worse. If I load an xspf playlist, then delete some files, move some files around, and save the playlist, all it remembers is that I deleted files from the playlist and it doesn't rememebr the files I added to replace them. What's worse that stays forever for a given playlist, so that if you want there to be any files other than what you had before minus any you deleted (without the benefit of any files that were *ever* added) you have to start over and make a new playlist from scratch.

Ah good, so it isn't me then

Soooo... who monitors these issues, and who solves them? Are such issues ever added to a bug list, and if so who decides what is added, and when it is resolved?

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