Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

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Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby muzicman82 » 17 Nov 2008 08:56

I have a suggestion that I don't think has been addressed.

I use VLC often for file review and sorting. Sometimes, there will a lot of files with ambiguous names. Right now, I listen or watch, figure out the filename, and then go back to Windows Explorer to delete the file. Sometimes, this takes a while because Windows has to wait for the file to be closed before it can be deleted.

How about adding in a simple feature that, while a file is playing, I could press "Delete" on the keyboard, or some other assignable keyboard shortcut, and VLC will immediately close the file and delete it (or send it to the Recycle Bun)? I suppose after the current file is closed, the next file in the Playlist would automatically start playing.

Thoughts?

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Nov 2008 11:07

Dangerous, dangerous...
I see the horde of people coming to explain that VLC delete his whole disk...
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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby muzicman82 » 13 Nov 2010 20:15

This could be something that needs to be turned on first... or just have only a keyboard shortcut to execute.. like CTRL + ALT + DELETE. Why or how would VLC delete a whole disk?

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby VLC_help » 15 Nov 2010 15:07

Why or how would VLC delete a whole disk?
Because VLC config file can get corrupted quite easily. And people do crazy stuff with their playlists.

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby muzicman82 » 15 Nov 2010 15:16

Well, like I said, it could be something that has to be turned on in Prefs as an experimental feature until testing is completed. Considering all of VLC's awesome, wacky, and highly advanced features, I can't imagine this one being very hard to implement... many programs that have media libraries allow you to delete from the disk or from the library.

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby VLC_help » 16 Nov 2010 15:12

It would be almost trivial to implement it to QT4. Just one button to QT4 playlist and use QFile's remove function that deletes file.

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby ElenaLauder » 13 Dec 2010 21:00

many programs that have media libraries allow you to delete from the disk or from the library.
Hi can you tell me please which one player can do this? Thank youn in advance for a respond.
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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby kaig » 03 Sep 2011 14:20

There is a winamp plugins that allows you to delete files while watching. See http://nunzioweb.com/daz/plfr.html I've just tested it with the latest winamp lite version and it works like a charm although its pretty old. It's a pitty that VLC does not offer such a feature.

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby cmw333 » 09 Nov 2011 09:39

Thanks Kaig
I had a similar problem, this plugin is brilliant, thanks for sharing.

Chris

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby Trevor_Sturdevant » 22 Sep 2013 21:09

It's evident the VideoLan crew has no intention of adding such a simple option. Therefore I wrote my own which functions in Windows. Read more here : https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=113813

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 27 Sep 2013 01:32

It's evident the VideoLan crew has no intention of adding such a simple option.
I fail to see the evidence. And I don't know who this "VideoLan crew" is.
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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby av5 » 02 May 2015 18:57

Image
AIMP can do delete mp3 such way.
But it can't play videos but only audio mp3 etc.

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby muzicman82 » 27 Jun 2016 04:25

Still no love for this request?

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby aitte » 21 Mar 2017 07:12

I want to delete a video file.
Preferably: skip to next video -> then delete the previous one (otherwise the file would be in use).

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Re: Ability To Delete Files (Even The Current)

Postby muzicman82 » 21 Mar 2017 13:32

Turns out I've switched to MPC-HC which can do this. I just mapped the DEL key.


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