Issue when creating and saving a new playlist from a selection in the Playlist Editor

[touwys]

Steps:

Playlist Editor > Right-click > Playlist Context Menu > Select "Create New Playlist With Selected Items":

Produces the desired playlist in a new tab named "Untitled-0.m3u8", "Untitled-1.m3u8", etc.

but:

1. The file format of the playlist in the editor — the one from which the new playlist file is produced, — is M3U. One would expect the same extension to apply to the newly created playlist by default?

2. To save the new playlist by clicking on the Save button, i.e. the diskette icon on the toolbar, produces an unidentifiable flash of "something" on the screen. It does not produce the expected Save Dialogue box, which usually contains the various saving options such as, for example, the preferred name, the location, nor the desired file extension.

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[Borewit]

Current behavior is indeed that by the default a .m3u8 playlist is created.

[Borewit]

Regarding the second part:

The save button just saves the new playlist, the flash is the save progress, which seems like flash, as it does not take very long.

It does not produce the expected Save Dialogue box, which usually contains the various saving options such as, for example, the preferred name, the location, nor the desired file extension.

Because it a temporary file, it should show the Save as dialog. Did I break that functionality? I can imagine I did. What if we save directly when creating new playlist, to keep things simpler? To avoid we to keep track which playlist have been saved in a temporary way, clean op temporary files, etc?

[touwys]

The save button just saves the new playlist, the flash is the save progress, which seems like flash, as it does not take very long.

I guessed that much, but where does this temporary file get saved to? Location? HDD or memory?

Because it a temporary file, it should show the Save as dialog. Did I break that functionality? I can imagine I did. What if we save directly when creating new playlist, to keep things simpler? To avoid we to keep track which playlist have been saved in a temporary way, clean op temporary files, etc?

I do not have a clear picture of exactly you have in mind here. My only concern is that saving a newly created, untitled playlist at the moment, operates without any visible clues — i.e. those user-input dialogues that will usually seek user approval before the file gets saved. Therefore, if you are for supporting a "Save as" dialogue, I'm certainly all for it too.

In summary, I would like to see support for a "Save as" dialogue that appears when the save diskette icon is clicked, allowing the user to exercise those options which are available to them — of which the save location, file name and the file extension appears to be the most prominent.