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Hi fellow developers,

I store all my mediafiles in various NAS and I also use different OS (mostly Linux, but there is my girlfriends Win Notebook also involved) and VLC on my computers to play my music, audiobooks and tv-shows. So I create playlists, stored in the main directories, for whole albums, special moods, audiobooks and so on, to play the media from different computers in my house. On the workstations these playlists will play without any problems, because the shares from my NAS are always mounted to the same location relative to the root. but when my girlfriend and her son use her pc, they will not work, also when I'm going to use them with XBMC.
I found out, that the problems are caused by the definite paths vlc creates when saving a playlist. When I manually change the paths from definite to relative (to the directory where the playlist is stored) playlists work on all computers.

Now here is my request. Please implement a single checkbutton to switch from definite paths to relative paths. My girl's wrecking my nerves every time, when a playlist is not working. And there are really a lot playlists to fix and just creating new pls with relative paths would decrease the amount of work thats laying in from of me.

please!

Exilant

Can I second this? The playlist is a wonderful concept & well implemented in a lot of programs (QMP, WinAmp, Windows Media Player) BUT not VLC, because of these absolute references. I have most of my videos on external & USB drives. The names of the drives change according to what is plugged in. Plus from time to time, I reorganise my collection & change folder names e.g. a playlist might be 5 music videos by the same band in the same folder, so changing drive/folder is not a problem for relative references, only absolute references. The email above suggests it is possible to change this, but I cannot see how from within VLC. I cannot think of any reason why a playlist should be absolute, but please give an option that they are either absolute or relative. Otherwise, they are pretty much a waste of time.

Same here
I store most of my media on external drives..plug them into the same port every time..and when I load an earlier playlist I get error message and vlc can't find all the files on the external media
I have not tried storing the playlists on the external media yet..hopefully that would work
I do not have this issue with the iProduct