Playlist Requests

[Tone Garot]

[1] I'd like to see the "Load" and "Save" options on the playlist window itself.

[2] "Save" should try to overwrite the currently loaded playlist. (It would ask first, of course.) Right now, I have to navigate through my hard drive to find a playlist that I only wanted to make minor updates.

[3] Could VLC remember where in the file system the last "load" came from? 9 times out of 10 I want to load a .m3u or .xspf file from "My Music," but when I hit "Load Playlist," it always goes to: C:\Users\Administrator\Documents.

[4] Could VLC remember the last playlist? So, when I open VLC, it should remember what was previously played.

[5] Could VLC remember the time within a file? For example, I listen to Audio Books, and I sometimes stop at a time of, say, 9:08 out of 22:00. I pause to go eat, answer the phone, whatever. I'd like to somehow bookmark this time, close out of VLC, then be able to call up where I left off. My portable MP3 player does this.

[6] Could VLC's playlist save the order? Every time I load a playlist, I have to resort by clicking on one of the sort headers. I usually use the "URI" sort header so that it considers both folders and file names. But then when I close the application, and I reopen, I have to re-sort by URI again. And it would be nice if it remembered which song in the playlist I left off.

[7] Could there be a button that "refreshes" a playlist? That is, it would rescan the ID3 and durations. I have a playlist that I created from an old .m3u file. I saved it as .xspf. The durations are all 00:00.

[VLC_help]

[4] Could VLC remember the last playlist? So, when I open VLC, it should remember what was previously played.

Use Media Library.

[Tone Garot]

Yes, well, that is what I do use Media Library for. I have an audio book in there now. Unfortunately, I still have to sort then choose the uppermost file to resume playback. It sort of works, but it isn't quite there yet.

I guess this really all stems from the fact that I use VLC for everything—movies, audiobooks, and music. Every time I switch between these, I have to write down the time (movie) or the file name (audiobook or music playlist) to resume where I left off.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

We are working on a SQLite based library for most of this things.

[recraig2]

For God's sake! You've been working on this thing for YEARS!!! You don't have a db integration yet?!

I LOVE VLC! I've used it since, well, I can't even remember the year, but it was fairly new then. I've watched it stagger and stagnate. There have been so very few changes that have truly improved the program. It's core functionality that won it fame is still there, but the world around you has changed. VLC used to be the easiest way to play a video of any kind in Linux. It still does that, but now we have a few others.

The quirks in VLC have gone from bad to worse. The poster of this thread has it right. This is the ONLY player that does this crap. m3u or xspf, it doesn't matter. The order is messed up every time the list is played. It is the same messed up order though, but there is no way to make it stick, short of editing the order in another player, like SMPlayer, saving it and then using it in VLC. The last version had a work around by enabling the URI to be viewed, sorted alphabetically, then the ID updated, you saved it and viola! Before that version you didn't have these kinds of problems at all. Now that work around does not work at all.

You guys should have a look at SMPlayer's code and learn from them this simple task. Since EVERY OTHER player has it right, you'd think you could just pick it up by looking at your competition... ANY competition.

Please straighten this one out. It slows us all down when watching a list created in VLC. Oh, by the way, it still crashes 1 out of 5 times when saving a list (m3u or xspf). I have repeated keystroke for keystroke each move and sometimes it crashes, sometimes it doesn't. It crashes at the same spot though every time that it does. I have navigated to the folder, clicked on an existing playlist name, chose to overwrite it and BAM! Crash. Not all the time... maybe 1 out 5 times.

Oh and yes! I second that! Quit making us navigate every damn time to save the file list we have opened. Pisses me off. I am so close to blogging about it and finally dumping VLC.

Good luck!

[The DJ]

Right.... Good luck to you as well. Not sure how this helps anyone, but at least you vented.