Is there a way to prioritize playlist title over metadata title

[barraIhsan]

For example, I have a .mkv file that has title metadata set and I also have a playlist file m3u that also has title

#EXTINF:0, title
path/to/the/video.mkv

If the video file has a title metadata, it will prioritize those instead of the playlist title. Can I somehow prioritize playlist title over metadata title?

From what I know you can access playlist title metadata inside playlist/N/title and we can currently get the index of it by using playlist-pos (start with 0) or playlist-pos-1

[guidocella]

https://mpv.io/manual/master/#options-force-media-title

[barraIhsan]

Ok, so..... I can just call the variable perhaps? It doesn't work tho

force-media-title=${playlist/${playlist-pos-1}/title}

[guidocella]

You can't nest properties like that. You need a script.

[barraIhsan]

Owh lua script? I honestly wanted to learn that, is the mpv documentation (man or through the https://mpv.io/manual/master/) good enough to learn? Or is there any other places to learn it?

It should be simple tho, so it would get the property from mp.get_property() and set the title from mp.set_property() and somehow trigger that function everytime it change a file.
Yea, I think I should learn it. Thanks! I thought there is a config to automatically do that for you (like maybe, --playlist-title-as-title or smthing like that). I will close it

[barraIhsan]

Final:

require("mp")

local function title()
	local pl_index = mp.get_property("playlist-current-pos")
	local pl_title = mp.get_property("playlist/" .. pl_index .. "/title")

	-- force playlist title if it have one
	if pl_title ~= nil then
		mp.set_property("force-media-title", pl_title)
	end
end

mp.register_event("file-loaded", title)

[mrfragger]

think I've been using in mpv.conf for quite sometime.
reset-on-next-file=force-media-title