TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

Problem:  You have a nicely curated VLC playlist in xpsf format, and you want to copy those files (and only those files) to a new destination.  Like, your phone or portable device, for a trip or something. There is a tool called "XSPF Export Tool" out there, done by Gerald at Dragonzero.  It did not work for me. There is another tool called AmoK Playlist Copy .  It does not support .xspf playlist format. So what worked for me was: -  In VLC, save the playlist into *.m3u format, and -  Use AmoK Playlist Copy to copy the playlist files to a new directory. Worked perfect for me.

Update Sept 2026:  Setting priority to "Low" has mostly done the trick.  According to AI, the issue stems from a known bug.  Different AIs give different answers on if the bug was fixed, but none will conclude for sure that it was.  There is an August 2026 version of Macroworks; I do not know if it fixed this issue or not. There is no useful changelog. I do plan to carry my X-Keys devices over to my latest Windows 11 workstation, as they're just too useful.  95% of what I do can be handled in hardware mode, so perhaps I'll abandon Macroworks completely. Interestingly, ChatGPT identified the new Macroworks release, while Gemini didn't mention it at all.  ------------------------------- Update August 2022:  The solution below did NOT work for me, so three more years of putting up with this nonsense. Pretty much every time I ran Macroworks, it would hog the CPU to the point where the machine became almost completely unresponsive.  It took 20-25 minut...