[justinclift]

> No usage regression.

I'm calling Bullshit on that. They said the exact same thing for the v2 -> v3 transition of VLC.

And then completely broke playback of my music collection, because the containing folders had square brackets in their name. eg "[2015]" or "[FLAC]"

VLC 2 worked fine with those folders. VLC 3 refuses to recognise music files in those folders. Because square bracket characters "aren't valid URL characters".

We're talking about folder names, not friggin URLs.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/19594

That was a regression right there, but they just ignored the problem and refused to fix it.

Grrrr.