So I was looking through the Application Support (I use Mac) folders, looking for where GeForce NOW stores its games, and I found one called com.defold.editor. Naturally, I looked in it and found one file, ml.xspf. After a quick Google search, I found that these are playlists. I opened it up in a text editor and found this:
I tried all the URLs, but only
the first one worked. I’m still investigating this, so I’d like to hear if you guys know anything about this. This is probably completely normal, but I’ve never seen it before.
Well, we don’t use VLC for anything in our tech.
When was the file created? Was it the only occurrance of the file?
Could it be that the file was created by VLC itself at some point, e.g. when browsing the Application Support folder?
E.g, when I run this (locate ml.xspf) it doesn’t find any file on my mac.
The file was created on April 9, 2018, and I installed Defold on December 1, 2017. There’s identical copy of it in the folder “org.videolan.vlc”, which is in Application Support. The weird thing is that whenever I open one of the two XSPF files in VLC and close it, the file gets replaced by an exact copy, with only the creation date changing. I thought that maybe it was keeping track of which songs are loaded in the player last time it was opened, but if you load some music then exit VLC, the XSPF file is modified according to Finder, but no actual changes are visible. My investigation was about to end, but then I tried importing a WAV file into Defold and opening it. VLC opened, but with no window and when I closed it the XSPF file in the Defold folder got replaced just like the one in the VLC folder! It seems like VLC uses those to keep track of something, and puts one in the Application Support folder of each program that open a file in VLC.
