this was fixed in April 2013 with commit id 5192a05dbb57338f9633b39a32309f6421f33a0e
updating to vlc 2.1 should do the trick for you. re "current": true rather than "current":"current" this was done to preserve a historical idiosyncrasy from the xml interface. <leaf ro="rw" name="Creativity.mp4" id="6" duration="120" uri="file:///snip" current="current"/> whilst "current":true would be better json - this allows us to keep the xml interface compatible with old versions, and to have the json interface as a view to the identical source data. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272132 Title: playlist.json returns 'current' for all items with same file uri To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1272132/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs