tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) I am in need of some assistance in disabling the auto-generated playlists that launchbox creates...namely the many "classics" playlists that are created in the Arcade section. I had no issues in launchbox version 11.8, I was able to choose to NOT create the auto-generated playlists...but when I upgraded to version 11.9...launchbox now decides to create these playlists. I will then delete the playlists, but they just get re-created everytime I add a ROM to my MAME platform under the arcade section. I have no idea what changed between the versions...or where I would need to go to disable the creation of these playlists. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Note: I have currently downgraded back to version 11.8 until I can find a solution Edited February 7, 2021 by Anthony Turano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 7 hours ago, Anthony Turano said: I am in need of some assistance in disabling the auto-generated playlists that launchbox creates...namely the many "classics" playlists that are created in the Arcade section. I had no issues in launchbox version 11.8, I was able to choose to NOT create the auto-generated playlists...but when I upgraded to version 11.9...launchbox now decides to create these playlists. I will then delete the playlists, but they just get re-created everytime I add a ROM to my MAME platform under the arcade section. I have no idea what changed between the versions...or where I would need to go to disable the creation of these playlists. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Note: I have currently downgraded back to version 11.8 until I can find a solution As far as i know nothing has changed in regards to these playlists from 11.8 to 11.9. This actually sounds more like the playlists are not actually being deleted than anything else, how are you deleting them, and have you checked that your playlist folder hasnt been set to read only for some reason? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 2 hours ago, neil9000 said: As far as i know nothing has changed in regards to these playlists from 11.8 to 11.9. This actually sounds more like the playlists are not actually being deleted than anything else, how are you deleting them, and have you checked that your playlist folder hasnt been set to read only for some reason? I delete the playlists through launchbox by right clicking each playlist and selecting delete (it can be very tedious)...the lists remain deleted until I add another ROM...then the playlists are added again...and I have to delete them all over again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Just now, Anthony Turano said: I delete the playlists through launchbox by right clicking each playlist and selecting delete (it can be very tedious)...the lists remain deleted until I add another ROM...then the playlists are added again...and I have to delete them all over again Try closing launchbox and going to the Launchbox/Data/Playlist folder and manually deleting the files, see if that sticks. How are you adding these MAME roms? i'm assuming you are not using a fullset and are grabbing individual games from somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 Just now, neil9000 said: Try closing launchbox and going to the Launchbox/Data/Playlist folder and manually deleting the files, see if that sticks. How are you adding these MAME roms? i'm assuming you are not using a fullset and are grabbing individual games from somewhere? I've tried the manual deletion as well...in fact the manual deletion doesn't work...using that method, when you open launchbox again the playlists are still there. As far as adding ROMs I drag and drop from my ROMs folder to trigger the launchbox wizard, I go through all the steps, and then when I click finish it shows at the bottom of launchbox the working progress bar...and at the very end it will show "creating playlists"...then it finishes and my ROM is added...I don't want these lists to be created Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 here are screen caps of a before, showing that I don't have the auto-generated playlists before I add a ROM...and then the after, showing all the unwanted playlists added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 everything is good before, then when I add the ROM it goes into the "Import Games from Files" wizard...I go through all the steps as usual...then at the very end of the process it says on the progress bar that it's "Creating Playlists"...this is what I need to stop from happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 This never happened with version 11.8...this only started occurring once I upgraded to version 11.9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 Issue Solved: Apparently when upgrading to version 11.9 my settings were overwritten...so I had to go through the manual drop down menu to add a ROM and deselect the auto-generated playlists option...now everything works fine even when doing the drag and drop adding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonythewrench Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 Correction: There is the same issue when adding games with drag and drop...I will just have to use the manual drop down menu from now on to avoid the auto-generated playlists being created... hopefully this gets fixed in the next update. And on top of this some of my themes are now showing pop up errors, namely the "coverbox" theme...it won't load the text list properly...version 11.9 has been a frustrating let down to say the least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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