VLC for iOS 3.2.5 - messed up library again

[xazqe]

Hi,

Since updating to 3.2.5 today, my library is a mess again, as it was by the release of 3.2.0 - but now in a new, exciting way!

The library has been “fine” since some of the bug fixes after 3.2.0, but not as good as prior to 3.2.0 (lack of automatic folders which separate TV-series from Movies in the main “Movies” display (not in the new ”Video Groups” view - Movies are still indistinguishable/really hard to find amongst hundreds of episodes of TV-series in the “Movies” section).

Anyhow.. the new problem is some new kind of “smart” file name display coding/system - which shortens the filenames in the library, regardless whether the “Optimize names for display” option is enabled or not (I’ve tried!). I’ve emptied the VLC library manually and re-added all files back again several times - but the filenames keep on getting screwed up and shortened in a very inconvenient way.

I now for example, as of version 2.3.5, have a video group called “5 1Ch ReEnc DeeJayAhmed” with 166 files in it. And that’s automatic grouping based on the very end of the filenames. Inside that video group, all files are now called “5 1Ch ReEnc DeeJayAhmed”, and there is no way to distinguish which episode they are, nor which TV-series they belong to, or in which order. All I can distinguish the 166 files from each other, are by the different looking generated thumbnails.

Another example is a Video Folder called “Chuck Versus”, which is file grouping based on the common denominator of the series “Chuck” - every episode file name contains the “Chuck Versus” text, and all episodes of Chuck are therefore grouped by that phrase. But there is no way to see which episode is which, or which season they belong to, because all 56 filenames/thumbnails are simply called “Chuck Versus”, instead of displaying for example “Chuck.S03E01.Chuck Versus the Pink Slip” and so on - in a Video Folder called “Chuck” or “Chuck S03”

There is also now a new Video Group called “Pilot”, which contain all the pilot episodes from different TV-series which have “Pilot” as a common denominator in their filenames. Kind of a neat feature, but kind of a mess too.

Hope there will be a solution in 2.3.6 - which groups videos based on the names of the TV-series themselves again, and not by a commonly reoccurring text in their filenames, nor grouped by the end of the file names (usually the name tags of the encoding release group of the episodes/seasons).

[RGMunny]

Ditto for me on my iPad. 3.2.5 has wiped out all my playlists. Video library is now empty. How is that possible?

[ant]

Mine too in my old iPhone 6+'s iOS v12.4.3. Only audio songs exist. I can see my video files in iOS' Files app.

[ChemEngr79]

So when are we going to get the grouping behavior from before 3.2.0 back?

Even the prior fix before 3.2.5 breaking everything was still a large downgrade.