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Bug #199

Extensions are stripped from filenames shown in playlist

Added by Mark - over 12 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Minor
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
October 17, 2012
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Affects version:
3.2.4

Description

I'm using Audacious 3.2.4 on Lubuntu 11.10 x86-64. I added File name to the columns shown in the playlist.

Audacious does not show complete filenames; it strips everything after the last dot. I guess for most people that may not really matter, though showing the extension would be an easy way to see what format files in the playlist are.

However, for some names it makes the feature of showing the filename useless. Back in the day, the normal file naming convention for SoundTracker/ProTracker modules on the Amiga was to prefix the name with "mod.". (That convention was also used for other Amiga music formats, with a different prefix, e.g. FC. for Future Composer modules.)

So you would have "mod.song name" instead of "song name.mod". When adding a number of mod.-prefixed files to a playlist, because Audacious strips everything after the last dot, every entry in the file name column just shows "mod"

It would be good if either full filenames could be shown, or an additional option added to show full instead of truncated names.

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#1 Updated by John Lindgren over 12 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

You can already do this. Under File -> Preferences -> Playlist -> Song Display, type "${file-name}.${file-ext}" (no quotation marks) into the "Custom string" box. Then add "Custom title" to the columns shown in the playlist.

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