Contribute playlist export to the Android app

[bendi_acs]

Hi,

First of all, thank you to everyone who's made this awesome app! To my knowledge, it is the only Android song player that has the ability to delete files, which is thanks to having its own media library implementation rather than using the quite limited one built into Android.

The only major shortcoming the Android app has right now is not being able to save/edit playlist files. I am an experienced developer and I like open-source software and since this feature is important for me, I would like to contribute the complete implementation.

I have been reading the relevant codebases and documentation, and I have come up with 2 possible implementation plans:

1. extending libvlc: add new export functionality to libvlc_media_list_t, then use this from vlc-android. Could be something like this:

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   int libvlc_media_list_export( libvlc_media_list_t * p_mlist, const char *filename, const char *type)
   This function would then convert libvlc_media_list_t to vlc_playlist and call vlc_playlist_Export.
   Problems/difficulties:
   • converting libvlc_media_list_t to vlc_playlist
   • making sure vlc_playlist_Export and file-specific exporter modules are available in the Android build
   • changes need to be propagated to libvlcjni
2. directly in vlc-android
   Problems/difficulties:
   • exporting (playlist file writing) logic needs to be reimplemented in Kotlin

Please help me decide which approach is preferable, or if there's a better alternative.

Thank you in advance

[Alaric]

Hi,

This should be exported to VLC ports via the medialibrary, which would use libvlc. Do you have a code.videolan.org account ?
I've created a tracking issue, if you are interested in working on it, please join the discussion here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/medi ... issues/487, i'll update with some knowledge and answer question during the week here.

Please DM me with your code.vo.org account email so we can approve it when created

Have a nice day!

[bendi_acs]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response! I'll DM you!

You too!

[deus0]

hi thank you for working on a playlist save as feature. How is the progress going? Would we also be able to just run these playlist files on desktop or android? I am hoping to keep the playlists system agnostic.

[bendi_acs]

I am still in the planning phase. It should be mostly be about bringing this already existing functionality from the desktop VLC app into libVLC, medialibrary and thus the Android app. The existing playlist export works for multiple standard playlist formats (such as .m3u), and the Android version will be have the capabilities.