On Monday, May 6, 2019 at 11:37:30 PM UTC+2, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 5/6/2019 5:16 PM, wrote:
Finally I'm fed up with VCL media player.
VCL Media Player's playlist feature has all kinds of issues, permission issues, sometimes hard to use... sometimes player lags while playing audio during gaming... tryed more buffering... also seems to consume lots of CPU..
I use VLC (is that the same as your VCL?) for video and WinAmp for
audio. But I've never figured out how to create a playlist in any media
player that I've tried other than look for an "add to playlist" button
when you're actually playing a file.
I'd love to find one that I can just drag and drop file names into and
I'd have a playlist. And once I had a list of files, drag them around to
put them in the order I'd like to hear them. I'd particularly like to
have that for my Android phone, but they all seem to be more like "do
you want to add what you're listening to now to a playlist?"
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Hi Mike,
Yes good spot, I ment VLC Media Player... gjez never knew those letters have to be swapped like that =D
The VLC Media player playlist feature works very strange/cumbersome and it works as follows:
(At least under windows it's like this):
1. First start the VLC media player.
2. Then click "media" (other programs call this menu item "file")
3. Then click "open multiple files".
4. Then click "file" if it's not already showing this tab.
4. Then click "add".
5. Then use the file explorer to add any files you want.
6. Hold shift or hold control to multi select files.
7. Then click open. Files will now be added.
8. Click the arrow next to play.
9. Choose "enqueue".
10. Click "media" again.
11. Click save playlist to file
12. Type in a name.
13. Click save.
As you can see many ****ed up and annoying steps necessary.
What's worse is... if you already playing a file it will also be added so it's totally ****ed up and annoying.
What's even more insane is if you continue to add files they'll all end up in a bunch... and then there are probably other file path/browsing quircks.
So you must completely restart VCL media player to have a clean slate, otherwise files you dont want will also be included.
But the most annoying part is that after a few months... they playlist develops some kind of ****ed up permissions issue with windows folder/file permissions...
It's very strange and I have no explanation for it... might be related to VHD attach service/virtual harddisks which I may or may not be using to store files.
So I am fed up with this media player bull****... it can also lag systems a bit... and sometimes it can't play certain music files fluently... because of hick ups...
On the plus side it does play a lot of file formats and videos and has brigthness adjustments and such... so I consider VLC media player essential.
However it's playlist feature is aggreviating me too much... it's just a waste of time for me for now.
So now I tried foobar2000 software !
And what a difference it makes... I am enjoying it currently.
It's a very simple player... if you choose the correct setup during installation... try choosing the easiest GUI and you'll love it I bet...
It's very simple.
Example how to create a playlist in foobar2000:
1. Click file
2. Click add files
or
2. Click add folder.
(The click folder is very sweet )
One can also start with a clean slate if you want by clicking:
1. Click File
2. Click new playlist
and then:
3. Click Add folder
add folder you want and it will automatically scan it and show a playlist.... it's very neat feature of foobar2000 !
4. Click file again
5. Click save playlist
6. enter name
7. Click save.
So as you can see it only requires half of the steps of vlc media player !
Only 7 instead of the convoluted 13 ****ed up steps
=D
However playing the playlist inside of foobar2000 is a bit akward.
It's unclear what will happen if "play" is pressed.
Which playlist will it play ? Since foobar2000 can open multiple playlists..... each on it's own tab.
It's also akward switching between playlists/play to continue where it left off...
There is only an arrow on the active playlist... but the inactive playlists have no indicator where it was left off/last played... except single rectungalar selection box... which is a bit doubtfull confusing... was it me ? or was it the player that did draw this rectungular ?
So foobar2000 could still be a bit better in the "play" and "resume" functionality...
But either than that it's pretty sweet so far.
And you are probably in luck... it also has an android version I think...
But not sure if the android version has a playlist.
I think so, try it your luck here, it has download for "mobile" but it doesn't say if it's iphone or android... just google play store and such which probably means android... which is what you would want.
Try out foobar2000 for android !
And report back if it has a playlist feature for kicks !
=D
http://www.foobar2000.org/download
GOOD LUCK
AND MAY THE FOOBAR2000 FORCE BE WITH YOU !!!! ALWAAAYZZZZZZ =D
Bye,
Skybuck =DDDDD