Generated playlist files do not work with the following media players: VLC, MPC-HC, PotPlayer, SMPlayer, Foobar, etc..

[jnxr]

System OS

Windows

Python Version

3.13 (CPython)

Install Source

pip / PyPi

Install version / commit hash

4.2.10

Expected Behavior vs Actual Behavior

Just installed 4.2.10.

The playlist files just do not open with any programs.

It has the [time in seconds] and the [title] attributes, but it is missing the path [filename] which is supposed to be on the next line & #EXTM3U tag on the 1st line?

Currently the playlist files generated by 4.2.10 are as below:

#EXTINF:111, Sample artist name - Sample track title
#EXTINF:222, Example Artist name - Example track title

Example code from https://docs.fileformat.com/audio/m3u/
adapted:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:111, Sample artist name - Sample track title
SampleMusic.mp3
#EXTINF:222, Example Artist name - Example track title
ExampleMusic.mp3

When I manually formatted the playlist files acc to example above, ie. adding the filenames in the next line following the attributes, & the #EXTM3U tag on line 1, it started working as it was supposed to.

The playlist files of version 4.2.8 and prior contain only filenames in each line and work as intended, but without any attributes.

Steps to reproduce - Ensure to include actual links!

1. Try loading the playlist to any of the programs
2. Try opening the generated playlist files in any text editor

Traceback

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Other details

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[Silverarmor]

@PranjalSurana Can you please advise as the author of #2215?
The PR seems to have introduced a multitude of bugs. Might revert the changes if you can't comment on this.
Should have created a new test suite for m3u playlist files cc @xnetcat

[PranjalSurana]

@Silverarmor I apologize for the inconvenience. I got the issue here, that song path would not get considered if it were in same line, as all the contents in the line would get considered as the path.
I will re-raise the #2215 PR (for issue #2126) with updated changes. I will add a new test suite as well for it

[jnxr]

@PranjalSurana seems like line1 is used for attributes and line 2 is used for the path.
Filename from line1 needs to be replaced by [Artist - Title] attribute.

[Silverarmor]

@PranjalSurana any update here?

[PranjalSurana]

@Silverarmor When I tried modifying the default path in config for m3u, anything after the new line character was not getting considered. Debugged it and I think create_path_object method is the one that is causing it. Was trying another way to try fix this.
For now, I think temporarily removing the feature until the fix for detecting the paths is found, might help.

[Silverarmor]

@Silverarmor When I tried modifying the default path in config for m3u, anything after the new line character was not getting considered. Debugged it and I think create_path_object method is the one that is causing it. Was trying another way to try fix this.
For now, I think temporarily removing the feature until the fix for detecting the paths is found, might help.

@PranjalSurana Can you review #2258