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Playlists

I've been using and loving Foobar2000 for a while but am new to this forum. Apologies if this is the wrong section. The one thing that drives me nuts is the way F2k handles playlists, but since I find the playlist implementation in WMP and VLC similarly absurd and even buggier, I'm starting to suspect that the problem is with my own understanding of the subject. I want to create a large database of playlists, which I can name, edit, save, and reopen when I need them. With all three of these programs, they don't seem to support the most basic standard element of programs - the ability to save! If I make a playlist fubr.fpl, change it, and save, it doesn't save - it just asks me to save as and I have to overwrite the previously saved version every time. This is time-consuming and confusing but the worst of it is that there bugs within bugs inside of a bugs. VLC and WMP are worse but I haven't been able to reliably name and save playlists. They always open up with the contents of some other playlist. Today I've downloaded Playlist Creator 3.6.2 and so far it seems to behave properly, but it doesn't play, only saves M3Us and PLSs. I'd prefer to stay inside Foobar2000 and do all my work there. Am I missing something? Does Foobar2000 actually have some brilliant way of dealing with playlists that has just gone over my head? There's also there crazy implemention that each playlist shows up as a tab and you have to change the title of the tab and the title of the playlist independent of each other! :'( 

Re: Playlists

Reply #1 –
Once you've loaded an external m3u playlist in to foobar, foobar no long knows/cares about its existence because it stores everything in its own playlists folder using the .fpl format. As you've discovered, you do have to manually save/overwrite any time you make any changes.

You may not know you can hold Shift before clicking the File menu and then you have a Save all playlists option which would probably save you some time. If you need playlists in m3u format for other players then this is what you have to do.

If you only need the playlists for accessibility/playing within foobar itself, you can forget the m3u files and just trust foobar to maintain them all internally. You must already know they persist between restarts etc.