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Hi,
I'm trying to create a playlist for my favorite radios to listen to them using VLC. So I made an xspf file like this one:
The problem is that after starting each radio station, VLC changes it's title to "FFH" (and removes the other tags like <creator> and <album>..). So now all of the 3 radio stations have the title "FFH" which is confusing.
I tried to uncheck the option "Preferences/All/Playlist/Automatically preparse files" but nothing changes. I also tried with m3u and pls files but the problem persists.

So how can I force VLC not to change the title in the playlist?

Config:
OS: Windows 7 x64 / Ubuntu 12.04
VLC media player 2.0.3

Thanks in advance

Very likely a bug.

The FFH title probably comes from metadata embedded in the radio stream or the radio M3U files. There are no ways to fix this, unless you are the radio operator.

Or give a higher priority to playlist metadata, like the CUE bug

Or give a higher priority to playlist metadata, like the CUE bug

Is this possible?

So far, no.

Okay. Thank you very much Jean-Baptiste and Rèmis

Or make it an user option.

That does not make sense. A configuration item configures VLC for the computer it runs on, not for one specific input stream it might access.

If there were such an option, users would enable it then complain that VLC fails to extra meta data on working files. That's even worse.

Unfortunately, there isn't a great simple way to do it.

Not sure if its ok to followup to a 10 year old post, but trying to find an answer to my question, I landed here.

I created m3u playlists containing radio streams that I place in the playlist folder of my Android smartphone to play using vlc.
Here is an example: When in my car, I pick one of these playlists to play through the vehicle's audio system using bluetooth. So far so good.

Some stations appear as I entered them in the playlist file but others have their name replaced by the something in the url or embedded in the stream itself. This does not matter if one does not change the station while driving, but if one does ( eg using the dial in the car's audio player) it is annoying to not know what station is playing.

Regarding a user selected configuration option:

That does not make sense. A configuration item configures VLC for the computer it runs on, not for one specific input stream it might access.

If there were such an option, users would enable it then complain that VLC fails to extra meta data on working files. That's even worse.

Why does it not make sense to let the decide whether the string in the M3U file be shown, or the additional information embedded in the stream. I am NOT saying per stream, but per device or even per session.

If I have not understood Remi's comment, I apologize.

Thanks

gc

Long story short: the metadata information sent by the radio stream is taking over the name from the playlist and it's like that. It's not planned to change this behaviour.