Relative files names with square brackets are ignored in M3U playlist files
When opening a M3U playlist containing relative pathnames - that is: not starting with file:// - the songs whose pathname contains a square bracket are simply ignored.
Example:
../../archive/Soft Cell/2001 - Non-stop erotic cabaret [remastered]/(Soft Cell) Sex dwarf.mp3
../../archive/Garbage/2002 - Garbage/(Garbage) As Heaven is wide.mp3
The first song is completely skipped and does not appear in the playlist.
Re-writing the pathname using file:// works but this forces to use a full path name, while we want to keep the relative one.
This has been seen on a machine running:
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Manjaro/KDE (amd64)
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VLC v3.0.1-0-gec0f700f AND v3.0.2
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Steps to reproduce: just drag & drop a M3U file crafted as in the attached example. It is not important to actually have the referenced songs in place: you'll see that the songs with
[]in their name are ignored. -
Reproducibility: every time.
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Type/Format: MP3 audio file
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Attachments:
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example M3U file
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console logs from the moment the file was dropped on the VLC window. You can see that there is no mention of the first song.