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Hi Folks,
I'm new to creating playlists and am having a problem. I'm trying to create playlists on an SD card destined to be played in my car. I can create the playlist using VLC, but the car can't read it. It turns out VLC is replacing spaces with %20, the hex code for an ASCII space. If I replace all these using a text editor, the list can, for the most part, be read by the car.
Here is an example of a playlist entry before editing:

Classical/MENDELSSOHN_%20String%20Quartets%20Nos.%202%20and/01%20String%20Quartet%20No.%202,%20Op.%2013,%20A%20m.m4a
#EXTINF:452,Aurora Quartet - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13, A minor: Adagio non lento

Is there any way to get VLC to save these strings with spaces? Is there something simple I'm missing?

Note the car doesn't seem to care about the backslash to forward-slash translation.

Thanks for your help,
Max

VLC 3 saves url encoded paths in m3u playlist. As a workaround you could save playlist (utf8 charset) through VLC Extension: Clipper ([Save Absolute] / [Save Relative]).