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VLC is a great program. It would be nice to be able to load a playlist and do a sort by date. The date field in the playlist does not populate from "Automatically preparse files" but does populate when the file is played. This is also the case for genre field as well. Maybe the prepase function was written before the date and genre field were added to the playlist. This seems like it was just overlooked and is not a bug.

Is this working as intended?

Please share such a playlist

This is an example of a playlist which populates the "Date" and "Genre" playlist columns only when the file is played.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:vlc="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/ns/0/" version="1">
<trackList>
<track>
<location>dvdsimple:///home/media/movie#15:7-15:41</location>
<title>A movie</title>
<annotation>This is info about the movie.</annotation>
<info>https://www.imdb.com</info>
<duration>1382166</duration>
<extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
<vlc:option>start-time=2314</vlc:option>
<vlc:option>stop-time=8846</vlc:option>
<vlc:option>sub-track=0</vlc:option>
<vlc:option>sub-track-id=16</vlc:option>
<vlc:option>meta-date=2016-01-16</vlc:option>
<vlc:option>meta-genre=video</vlc:option>
<vlc:option>bookmarks=
{name=Start,time=2314},
{name=Opening Credits,time=2400},
</vlc:option>
</extension>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>

sloMa