Bug 508875

Currently it is not possible to open multiple files at once and this is problematic as you have only two options. You can either add manually in the playlist each file one by one, or you can enable to load all files from same folder when opening one file.

Problematic example case: I want to open 20 files from a folder containing 200 files, I can only either click Add File in the Playlist, then browse to my folder containing the files, then select the first file and validate, and repeat the process for each 19 remaining files I want to add to the playlist and this is very tedious process, or I can open the first file I want, and it will add automatically all the other 199 other files from the folder in the Playlist. Both current options are not convenient at all in such case, and this is not really an edge case it is pretty common to me and probably many people.

What would be great would be to be able to select multiple files at once and be done with it in only one Add File operation in the playlist. Or for the other option when it loads all files from same folder when opening a file, being able to select multiple files at once in the playlist to remove them. Both of these improvement should actually be implemented in my opinion, this is pretty much how I have interacted with playlist in the last thirty years or so to be honest and the Playlist experience with Haruna is kinda frustrating.