m3u edits done in the player are not stored in the file

[Icke]

When I removed tracks from an m3u playlist in the VLC player it is stored for VLC, but the actual file remains unchanged.

That makes editing pointless because I will lose all my hard work when changing the phone (I already did once because I never would have thought internal playlists can't be exported, so now I'm trying m3u). What can I do that the changes are written to the actual file?

Do I need to get another tool to listen to the playlist and thin it out?

[Aza]

VLC for Android doesn't indeed allow to edit playlist files. In general, custom playlists and bookmarks are not saved when the app is re-installed. This is something we want to do, but for now, you'll have to rely on another tool to do that unfortunately.

[alphacat52]

Interesting ! Any idea on what are some potential solutions ?
What about developpement timing, much more in months, or some years ? Do you have it on schedule, or does it depends on when some volunteer taking it over ?

Thanks for any orientation on how things work on the project!