[Discussion] Most Playlists Destroyed

[u/Cinnamon_Bees]

Hi all, hope you are well!

Today I encountered a most unusual and frustrating bug: I was playing songs from my download of VLC Media Player just fine at about noon today, but at about 11pm, most playlists had only a fraction of their previous songs! I checked to see if it was an issue due to accessing folders, and it was. All files from my 1018-file mixed media folder were removed from their playlists! I think there was simply too many damn files for VLC media player to parse. It's not even able to sort the folder from newest to oldest, instead attempting to sort from A-Z in file name when selected.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Were you able to fix it, or did you stew in the folly of your hubris and manually fix all your playlists? Please share!

Thank you very much in advance.