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unhappy with playlist handling

Postby gernoth » 23 Jun 2009 10:52

I want to perform these simple tasks, but vlc is not much good support.

I have ripped an album with AudioGrabber, I store each album in its own folder.
Now I want to create a playlist with all the tracks in that folder.
For simplicity, I'd like to create an M3U playlist. I have not found out why I should use xspf, so I wont.

what I dont like about vlc:
* the dialog ALWAYS defaults to save as xspf
I'd like a property like "default playlist format" which I can set to m3u

* the files are stored with absolute file:// URLs
but I would like to be able to move the whole folder somewhere else, eg to a different computer/server.
SO I prefer relative paths
which would justify another property "playlist path: absolute/relative"

playlist manipulation is all through the main window's menu, but playlist is in a separate window. This is somewhat silly, the playlist window could have its own menu bar containing playlist-related commands

in general I am very unhappy with the playlist window - I can sort by various columns, but I have no idea in what order the files are saved when I save the playlist. In fact I sometimes edit the m3u file manually because it's easier than manipulating the unpredictable window.

otherwise, there's so many things I love about VLC, so lets see where it goes!!!!

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Re: unhappy with playlist handling

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 23 Jun 2009 10:58

Fill a bug.
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Re: unhappy with playlist handling

Postby gernoth » 25 Jun 2009 00:11

where's a web interface to file a bug?

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Re: unhappy with playlist handling

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2009 10:53

trac.videolan.org/vlc
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Re: unhappy with playlist handling

Postby gernoth » 28 Jun 2009 19:31

I can only view tickets, not file a new one. (logged in to trac as hueller).
can you file it for me please?
TIA

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Re: unhappy with playlist handling

Postby VLC_help » 29 Jun 2009 17:44

Tell your trac username, and someone will upgrade your trac status.

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Re: unhappy with playlist handling

Postby gernoth » 05 Jul 2009 21:23

username is simple: "hueller"
TIA


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