Playlist import/export

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@asenat So to expand on my original plan, I am planning on doing the following steps:

Add the new function libvlc_media_list_export in libVLC.
Expose this new function in libvlcpp.
Expose this new function in this repo (medialibrary) - do you have any specific suggestions on how this API should look like?
Use the new API from the Android app.

Does it sound good? Is there anything missing?

Hi,
These steps are correct! However, a good amount of the work will first be in libvlc. Exporting playlists requires some changes in both libvlc and libvlc-core. I don't know how familiar you are with the VLC codebase, but it could be a bit of a challenge (in a good way) and we can provide assistance.

I'll dump the first pass of research I did on libvlc here:

libvlc-core exposes an utility to export playlists. We want to plug it to libvlc a it supports several playlist export format.
The utility manipulates playlist_view which encapsulate a VLCplaylist.
VLC playlists represent the "playqueue" it's a complex bound to the player, and it does not make sense to expose the playlist exporter like that, it's too coupled to the internals of libvlc-core.
Instead, we should try to decouple the playlist_view from the actual playlist object from VLC. It seems that the only things needed for the playlist export modules is a list of input_item_t (equivalent of a media).
When we have this, it will be possible to plug playlist export to the media list as you intended initially.

TLDR; To be able to export media_lists, the first step is to change core internals to handle a simple input_item list instead of the complex and hard to expose playlist object.

Thanks for your interest on the feature!

Hi regarding the core/libvlc part, I think this patch should do the trick,

https://code.videolan.org/-/snippets/1813

mentioned in merge request vlc!7068

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