Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Aug 2017 14:58

As for Android, you have the file browser.
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Halneufmille » 17 Oct 2017 00:05

Use foobar2000, it's totally customizable. Only for audio though.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Davidpriddy » 20 Nov 2017 12:48

Amen to this brother, I created a thread about this yesterday but just came across your thread today (although my complaint is related to the iOS/TVOS apps...my desktop version of VLC has no issues with displaying titles of files.) Please check mine out: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=141128

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby xbrzy » 21 Feb 2018 15:46

This option should be present. Music files usually have correct metadata but why should I be bothered to properly tag hundreds of separate parts of my audiobook library? I tried some other players and found that foobar2000 is excellent alternative.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Shelby001 » 12 Apr 2018 01:19

At the top of the screen, try clicking on <Tools>, then <Preferences>. At the bottom left of the popup box, click <All> next to "Show Settings". Click on <Input/Codecs> on the left, and in the popup screen on the right, scroll down to the bottom. Next to "Change title according to media", change the entry to "$F" without the quotes for path/file name or "$U" without the quotes for file name only. If you hover the mouse over the box, it will show some other possible settings. Click <Save>, then close and reopen the program.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby xbrzy » 27 Apr 2018 13:17

This $F and $U options are working only for name in vlc windows title, playlist names are still wrong. I tried also to correct tags myself with external programa but ended with only messing up my files because I was stubborn to keep using vlc.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby EodiV » 28 Apr 2018 20:06

I thought I wrote a ticket for this quite some time ago. I found my ticket again, and realised I forgot to mention the file name, added that to the ticket now.

See this ticket 18600 about adding new columns:
- file name
- file creation date
- file last modified date
- file size

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby mederi » 29 Apr 2018 11:46

There are already several tickets for filename (with/without extension) column: #5455, #17234, #18600, #19963.
Then there are some tickets regarding filename in VLC window title bar and filename in OSD video title (show media title on video start): #16150, #7967.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Newrone » 31 May 2018 15:16

What am I missing? I can't post a New message, I don't see a button or link. The only place I can post is in response to an existing thread.

Anyway, my issue is - File names are not listed in my playlist. Filename 6YwwsI78O.mp3 displays as 20cb4f5q7324c91 ("Title")! I don't know where this comes from or why it is the case. But with dozens of files in the list, I have to listen to them ALL potentially to find any one particular file.
How do I display the actual Filename in the playlist? It doesn't even show in the metadata.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby EodiV » 09 Jun 2018 17:33

People with programming knowledge. We just need more people to work on this project so we get around to this. There are always other bugs and optimalisations taking priority over new features such as this one.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Ocsid » 28 Jun 2018 00:19

* Bump.

Here we are, yes its me, the poster of the topic.
Thank you all for keeping it clean.
I am getting somewhat impatient here though... four years later.

Developers, please read my first post. Take one hour to read through the sourcecode, and get back to this thread with info about how difficult such option would be to implement.

Thank you in advance.

PS. Lol! I just noticed a checkbox when posting in the forum that says: "Do not automatically parse URLs" - The irony! Right? :-)

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 28 Jun 2018 00:30

* Bump.

Here we are, yes its me, the poster of the topic.
Thank you all for keeping it clean.
I am getting somewhat impatient here though... four years later.

Developers, please read my first post. Take one hour to read through the sourcecode, and get back to this thread with info about how difficult such option would be to implement.

Thank you in advance.

PS. Lol! I just noticed a checkbox when posting in the forum that says: "Do not automatically parse URLs" - The irony! Right? :-)
What is the reasoning for that request?
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Ocsid » 28 Jun 2018 20:57

Thank you fot quick respons. *Wink, happy face*

There are lots of examples in this thread some even with screenshots that explains the possible benefits of being able to opt out of the metadata provided within many media files. For example when the metadata is faulty within hundreds of files, one click in settings and poof, problem gone.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 28 Jun 2018 22:57

Thank you fot quick respons. *Wink, happy face*

There are lots of examples in this thread some even with screenshots that explains the possible benefits of being able to opt out of the metadata provided within many media files. For example when the metadata is faulty within hundreds of files, one click in settings and poof, problem gone.

So, why do you care in the playlist?
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Ocsid » 29 Jun 2018 00:55

Hard question to answer.
I "care in the playlist" because I use it. If it displays the filenames i can make use of the information, if it displays the faulty metadata as "title" I can not.

Look at the screenshot provided earlier by a fellow vlc user an I think you will see problem.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby iZqLGKmguN » 29 Jun 2018 13:05

Hello.

I want to make a small comment about the column "Filename", which we all look forward to.
Please make sure that it is not encoded for non-English characters, and it was convenient to read.

I give a screenshot for explaining my thoughts. The screenshot shows the column "URI", but the same applies to the column "Filename".

Imagehttps://imgur.com/a/cAdTtWg

Thanks.
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 Jul 2018 15:20

Hard question to answer.
I "care in the playlist" because I use it.
For the playback? For the selection of the file to open? For a media library like?
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Ocsid » 05 Jul 2018 00:59

Not media library, i drag and drop a bunch of files into the playlist (not docked) and the filenames are displayed thanx to the "do not parse" setting. However, when an episode is played the meta is read and the title changes to match metadata. I fall asleep and next day the whole playlist is filled with the irrelevant metadata and I have no clues at all to assertain which episode to start. The filenames would make it possible for me to recognize what episode to start.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby movalex » 13 Jul 2018 11:22

For the playback? For the selection of the file to open? For a media library like?
Here's another example how showing filenames in playlist is useful:
When we need to sort compositions according filename (i.e. all of them are prepended with index number).
ALSO if 'do not preparse' option is used, we will not get total playlist length, which is must have.
I guess the easiest way to implement this feature would be save the list of unpreparsed files, and after parsing playlist just add a column for it so we can use it for good.
Seems like not a rocket science, huh?

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 15 Jul 2018 13:49

For the playback? For the selection of the file to open? For a media library like?
Here's another example how showing filenames in playlist is useful:
When we need to sort compositions according filename (i.e. all of them are prepended with index number).
ALSO if 'do not preparse' option is used, we will not get total playlist length, which is must have.
I guess the easiest way to implement this feature would be save the list of unpreparsed files, and after parsing playlist just add a column for it so we can use it for good.
Seems like not a rocket science, huh?

And you're not answering my question.
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby movalex » 16 Jul 2018 12:12

And you're not answering my question.
Of course, for playback. It is what are playlists for, right?
We put a bunch of files into the playlist and all we need is to sort them according the file name, not by a metadata.
And URI column is not suitable for this task because it does not work properly with non-latin filenames. Hence the topic.

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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 16 Jul 2018 13:36

And you're not answering my question.
Of course, for playback. It is what are playlists for, right?
Depends. Some people consider playlists as sources, not as the "current playlist", aka "the play queue".
We put a bunch of files into the playlist and all we need is to sort them according the file name, not by a metadata.
And URI column is not suitable for this task because it does not work properly with non-latin filenames. Hence the topic.
So, when you sort, it changes the playback order?
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby movalex » 16 Jul 2018 18:06

So, when you sort, it changes the playback order?
Yes, sorting does change the order. Consider this simple playlist.
First item has a name 25.track.mp3, but since it has metadata in it, it won't be sorted properly, because it has some garbage in metatags.
If we had a possibility to omit reading metadata from files when playlist is parsed, it would be a solution. Or add another sort column with filenames only.
Hope it is clear now.
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Jul 2018 12:01

OK, thank you.
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Re: Option to display FILE NAMES instead of META TAGS

Postby blugir » 23 Jul 2018 09:41

This is for a tv series and the problem is that its jumbling the episodes by displaying the title name of the episode name and not episode number so their all out of order.
I would like to display the filename so it sorts properly by order of the files according to the ep number instead of by title name.


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