[BUG] Whitelist not being read correctly on win10 + smplayer

[lamegreen]

Whitelist always gets saved with backslashes while the filepath outputted by smplayer is with forward slashes. Doing trakts whitelist test E:/Shows and Movies/Shows gives "The path is not in whitelist!" while doing trakts whitelist test E:\Shows and Movies\Shows works as it should.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS and Version: Windows 10
• Python Version: 3.10.4
• Player and Version: SMPlayer Version: 22.2.0 (revision 10060) (64-bit)

To Reproduce

Play any file in the whitelisted directory

Log file

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2022-06-05 04:28:18,486 - DEBUG - MainThread - notifier - Notifications enabled for categories: exception, misc, scrobble.pause, scrobble.resume, scrobble.start, scrobble.stop, trakt
2022-06-05 04:28:18,615 - INFO - MainThread - scrobbler - Started scrobbler thread.
2022-06-05 04:28:18,644 - DEBUG - MainThread - monitor - Autoloaded smplayer@mpv ipc_path = \\.\pipe\mpvsocket
2022-06-05 04:28:18,645 - INFO - MainThread - monitor - Started monitor for smplayer@mpv
2022-06-05 04:28:18,656 - DEBUG - smplayer@mpv - file_info - Raw filepath 'E:/Shows and Movies/Shows/The Boys/Season 3/The Boys - S03E01 - Payback WEBDL-1080p.mkv'
2022-06-05 04:28:18,657 - INFO - smplayer@mpv - file_info - File path not in whitelist.

[lamegreen]

Adding the folders by doing trakts config set fileinfo.whitelist --add E:/Shows and Movies/Shows instead of trakts whitelist add seemed to fix it

[iamkroot]

2022-06-05 04:28:18,656 - DEBUG - smplayer@mpv - file_info - Raw filepath 'E:/Shows and Movies/Shows/The Boys/Season 3/The Boys - S03E01 - Payback WEBDL-1080p.mkv'

This is the weird part. I'm not exactly sure why it has forward slashes here. Being on Windows, it should be \.

Glad to see that you found a workaround. But I'd like to keep this issue open, will try to investigate when I have some time.

[iamkroot]

Ok, I looked into this- seems like it is an upstream SMPlayer bug. It directly sends the path with forward slashes to MPV when starting the file. So when we query MPV, we also get the same path. Not sure if we want manually fix the paths, since it might break web urls (which do require forward slashes).

[dbarkar]

I'm having the same issue with VLC on Windows 11.
trakts doesn't recognize the path when video is playing, but trakts test works.
Fixed by @lamegreen 's workaround, thanks!