Option to add to playlist all files in directory and/or all files with similar name

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Not sure if this is the right place to suggest, but it would be nice to
have some option to add all files in some directory to the playlist when
opening a single file.

Alternately, and possibly better, an option to include all similarly named
files to playlist upon opening only one of them.

Let's say I have files named yxz-[1-29].avi in some folder. With such an
option enabled, upon opening any of the yxz videos, all of them will be
added to the playlist, so I don't have to open them one by one when I'm
watching them all. 

Sure, I can just add them all to the playlist, but it is not as practical.
I know of at least two players I used to use in Windows that did that, so I
guess I'm just spoiled and lazy, but I think it's a nice feature :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by heavenne...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 7:50

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Have you tried dragging and dropping the files to the playlist?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 6:02

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Yes, I have, and it works. What I am suggesting is essentially different. I'm
suggesting automatically populating the playlist with files with similar names.

Let's say I have a folder full of episodes of some show. If I open the first 
one all
of the other episodes would be automatically added to the playlist, so I don't 
have
to add them manually.

I know it sounds like laziness, since it is very easy to manually add all the
episodes, but I guess it's just one of those small things that make me really 
like
one program.

Original comment by heavenne...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 7:43

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I guess I don't understand what you want. How would the UI work?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 7:50

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I guess just a checkbox option in Preferences , which when ticked would make the
default behavior be adding all the files with similar names.

For instance, if I have a folder with files named XYZ Episode 1.avi, XYZ Episode
2.avi, XYZ Episode 3.avi,..., XYZ Episode 26.avi (supposing there's a total of 
26
files in the folder, all following that naming pattern), then, if that option I 
am
suggesting is enabled, whenever I open any episodes in the folder using
gnome-mplayer, all episodes will be added to the playlist automatically.

Not sure I made it clear now, I'm sorry for my bad English.

Original comment by heavenne...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 8:49

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I also want this function in the gnome-mplayer. Now for adding all files in 
folder i must do three operations:
1. first open the player
2. add folder to playlist
3. run needed file(episode from series) from the list

But with this feature I must only run needed episode in Nautilus and all other 
episodes automatically will be added to playlist. So i can watch all episodes 
without stopping for adding next one.  

Sorry for my english:)

Original comment by fenu...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 12:56

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And I think it should also allow for some degree of difference between 
filenames.

For example, the files:

"Example - Episode 1 - Foo.avi",
"Example - Episode 2 - Bar.avi", 
"Example - Episode 3 - Foobar.avi",
would all be added to the playlist upon opening just one of them.

Also, something like a background populating, so that in case there's lots of 
files to be added (I have video folders with over 100 episodes)it won't take 
decades to start watching.

But those are things that could be discussed after the basic funcionality 
(adding all files in same folder) is implemented, then we could start 
fine-tuning it to only add when there's some degree of similarity between 
filenames and efficient ways to do so.

Original comment by heavenne...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 3:26

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Please provide a patch that does this and I'll look at integrating it into the 
code.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 7:30

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Unfortunately I can't code (yet), but I hope someone who can gets interested 
and does it.

Original comment by heavenne...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 9:16

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Have you tried just adding the folder to the play list? That will add all the 
files in the folder to the playlist.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2010 at 7:42

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>>Have you tried just adding the folder to the play list? That will add all the 
files >>in the folder to the playlist.

If in folder not only video/music files(like subtitles) they added to the 
playlist too, that is not convenient. Maybe you add filter for not media files 
when opening folder. 

Original comment by fenu...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2010 at 1:58

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I added some code to SVN r1798 that removes files identified as not playable. 
Some files may be detected as streaming due to them containing a URL in the 
file. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2010 at 5:29

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 2:35

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