FileCollection does not return simple playlist with .m3u8 extension

[cezary-zemis]

Bug report

Describe the bug

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Kodi 21 by default creates simple music playlist as UTF-8 files with .m3u8 extension. Such a playlist is visible in UI, but is not listed by external tools, such as Chorus 2 or Yast. Probable reason in that API function FileCollection does not return such a playlist. If the file's extension is changed to .m3u, it is properly listed.

Expected Behavior

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Playlist with either .m3u or .m3u8 extension are returned by FileCollection.

Actual Behavior

Only playlist with .m3u extensions are returned.

Possible Fix

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. using Kodi 21 create a simple music playlist containing one or more tracks
2. save the playlist using 'a' as its name
3. open Chorus 2 web interface and navigate to Browser → Music → Playlists

Debuglog

The debuglog can be found here:
No relevant information in kodi log.

Screenshots

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osmc@kodi-02:~$ ls -l ~/.kodi/userdata/playlists/music
total 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc osmc   211 Jun  8 12:53  a.m3u8
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc osmc 12508 Jun  7 22:31 'i&p-2024-01.m3u'
-rw-r--r-- 1 osmc osmc 12870 Jun  7 22:31 'i&p-2024-02.m3u'

Additional context or screenshots (if appropriate)

Here is some additional context or explanation that might help:

osmc@kodi-02:~$ dpkg --list '*mediacenter*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version      Architecture Description
+++-====================================-============-============-============================================
ii  mediacenter-addon-osmc               3.0.781      all          OSMC addon for mediacenter
ii  mediacenter-eventclients-common-osmc 1.0.5        all          Eventclient common resources for mediacenter
ii  mediacenter-send-osmc                1.0.0-7      all          Eventclient send for mediacenter
ii  mediacenter-skin-osmc                21.0.0-1     all          OSMC skin for mediacenter
ii  rbp2-mediacenter-osmc                21.0.9-2     armhf        Media Center package for OSMC

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• Kodi version: 21

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[KarellenX]

Here is the PR that implemented m3u8. Maybe something was missed and you can ask the developer?
#21992

[neo1973]

Hmm, I can't confirm. I tested with the current Flatpak and build from master, both show *.m3u8 playlists and I can interact with them just fine:

[cezary-zemis]

Hmm, I can't confirm. I tested with the current Flatpak and build from master, both show *.m3u8 playlists and I can interact with them just fine:

Very strange… I've just tested using freshly installed Kodi 21 on Windows 11 and then upgraded to newest nightly build (KodiSetup-20240620-3d14ee65-master-x64). In both cases the playlist is visible in UI but not in Chorus. In both cases FileCollection call returns no entries:

    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "files": [],
        "limits": {
            "end": 0,
            "start": 0,
            "total": 0
        }
    }
}