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# 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 <a href="http://mougino.free.fr/vpm/" target="_blank">here.</a>

**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

* v1.3
  * Fix for Wine 11.0 breaking 'start.exe' retrocompatibility
* v1.2
  * Add a program updater!
  * Fix 'recent' combobox name when switching to another playlist
  * Improve readability of episode names in listview
* 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