VLC Playlist Manager

Ever wanted to binge watch seasons of a TV show over multiple sessions/days in VLC? Then you know it's not an easy task, as VLC cannot resume a playlist...

Until now! VLC Playlist Manager is a third party program that takes care of resuming playlists in VLC! Read the howto here.

VLC Playlist Manager is written by Nicolas Mougin (mougino@free.fr).

You can download the program at http://mougino.free.fr/freeware/#vpm

Pre-requisite

VLC Playlist Manager needs VLC installed on your system:

https://www.videolan.org/

Changelog

• v1.1
  • Now supports running in Linux via wine!
    • Propose to install and make a Linux App shortcut at startup
  • Hidden feature: double-click the eye to manually kill VLC Listener
  • Fix long paths in media listview
  • Fix new playlist name not appearing in 'recent' combobox
  • Force vlc to start playlists with "--no-random" option
• v1.0
  • Now supports drag & drop of folders to create a resumable playlist!
  • Fix playlist name not appearing in Combobox after drag and drop
  • Fix VLC Listener to detect VLC instances in languages other than english
  • Handle vlc 64-bit installation folder
• v0.3
  • Fix badly handled UTF-8 characters
  • Fix long paths in recent playlist combobox
• v0.2
  • Add eye icon to show activity of VLC Listener
  • Add (!) icon to alert last VLC media couldn't be found
  • CenterMsgBox()
  • Fix relative paths broken when opened from local playlist
  • Fix xspf support
  • Fix recent playlist combobox duplicates
  • Fix empty recent playlists combobox when opening an invalid playlist
• v0.1
  • Double-click on a media file resumes the playlist at this point
  • Button "Start playlist" selects first media then start playlist
  • Button "Resume playlist" selects last media and resumes playlist
  • Make dialog able to receive files by drag & drop
    • Start/resume drag and dropped playlist
  • Save last played file from playlist
  • Create a temp playlist starting at current media till last media of playlist
  • VLC listener (every 2s)
    • check last played media in the .ini, update LastMf + listview accordingly
    • check if VLC has been killed -> if yes stop VLC listener

License

VLC Playlist Manager is provided under the GNU GPL V3 license.

See "gpl.txt" or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Source code is available at http://mougino.free.fr/code/index.php?p=VLC+Playlist+Manager

How to build

VLC Playlist Manager is written and compiled with Classic PowerBasic v9.07.0205. http://powerbasic.com