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Just downloaded the nightly build...it's horrible. I hope there is a way to reverse everything to how it is at the moment. There is a point in software where

Just downloaded the nightly build...it's horrible. I hope there is a way to reverse everything to how it is at the moment. There is a point in software where the UI reaches it's optimum. It is at that point with VLC atm. I never had any issues with the playlist. The playlist is not a especially relevant part in the whole thing. I drag files/folder in there and it does what it does. Please don't overdo it... I'd rather see the render to chromecast issues fixed. Can't pause with VLC or the video stops after a few seconds resuming and I need to start over.

Barrin92 7y ago
while we're nagging about problems with vlc, one thing I desperately need is some trivial way to have files in the playlist labeled by filename instead of metadata. It seems unintuitive and often if files are missing metadata you can't sort the playlist or tell what's what.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
  The version of my favourite anime series I have on my machine unfortunately has a mistake where every single episode has the same incorrect title metadata.
- jbk 7y ago
  This will be changed in VLC 4.0. You will be able to sort the media library and the playlist by filename.
enriquto 7y ago
Notice that you can still use "cvlc" that has a very elegant interface (i.e., zero pixels).
rom1v 7y ago
> I never had any issues with the playlist. The playlist is not a especially relevant part in the whole thing. The playlist rewrite I detail in this blogpost is an internal technical refactor, so you're absolutely right, it's not a relevant thing for the users. It is independant of the UI. In theory, it could have been used with the old UI, but technically a big part of the old UI code would have needed to be rewritten to use the new core playlist. Since a new modern UI is being developed, this was not worth the effort to do the work twice. So only the new UI will use the new playlist/player. > Just downloaded the nightly build...it's horrible. I hope there is a way to reverse everything to how it is at the moment. The master branch is a development branch. Everything has been merged recently to avoid that everyone work on their own branch and resolve conflicts all the time, and the new components need to interact (playlist, player, clock, media library, qt ui…). But it's in development, it's not a release.
- Krasnol 7y ago
  Thank you for your work.
- stevekemp 7y ago
  12 years ago I wrote a blog post being annoyed that when using Xine in "random shuffle" mode - pressing "previous track" did not replay the previous track. https://blog.steve.fi/it_eats_the_pain.html https://blog.steve.fi/it_eats_the_pain.html If VLC can now do that properly, which I think is what I took from your blog post, that's a huge change which makes me very happy, and would make me switch back.
  - rom1v 7y ago
    I'm glad that supporting "previous" in random mode will not be useless, then :)
jbk 7y ago
> Just downloaded the nightly build...it's horrible. The nightly build is not really usable yet, because it's in the middle of the transition to the new UI in qml. It will get fixed before the release.
- Krasnol 7y ago
  Thank you.

Barrin92 7y ago

while we're nagging about problems with vlc, one thing I desperately need is some trivial way to have files in the playlist labeled by filename instead of metadata. It seems unintuitive and often if files are missing metadata you can't sort the playlist or tell what's what.

TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
The version of my favourite anime series I have on my machine unfortunately has a mistake where every single episode has the same incorrect title metadata.
jbk 7y ago
This will be changed in VLC 4.0. You will be able to sort the media library and the playlist by filename.

enriquto 7y ago

Notice that you can still use "cvlc" that has a very elegant interface (i.e., zero pixels).

rom1v 7y ago

> I never had any issues with the playlist. The playlist is not a especially relevant part in the whole thing. The playlist rewrite I detail in this blogpost is an internal technical refactor, so you're absolutely right, it's not a relevant thing for the users. It is independant of the UI. In theory, it could have been used with the old UI, but technically a big part of the old UI code would have needed to be rewritten to use the new core playlist. Since a new modern UI is being developed, this was not worth the effort to do the work twice. So only the new UI will use the new playlist/player. > Just downloaded the nightly build...it's horrible. I hope there is a way to reverse everything to how it is at the moment. The master branch is a development branch. Everything has been merged recently to avoid that everyone work on their own branch and resolve conflicts all the time, and the new components need to interact (playlist, player, clock, media library, qt ui…). But it's in development, it's not a release.

Krasnol 7y ago
Thank you for your work.
stevekemp 7y ago
12 years ago I wrote a blog post being annoyed that when using Xine in "random shuffle" mode - pressing "previous track" did not replay the previous track. https://blog.steve.fi/it_eats_the_pain.html https://blog.steve.fi/it_eats_the_pain.html If VLC can now do that properly, which I think is what I took from your blog post, that's a huge change which makes me very happy, and would make me switch back.
- rom1v 7y ago
  I'm glad that supporting "previous" in random mode will not be useless, then :)

jbk 7y ago

> Just downloaded the nightly build...it's horrible. The nightly build is not really usable yet, because it's in the middle of the transition to the new UI in qml. It will get fixed before the release.

Krasnol 7y ago
Thank you.