Questions tagged [playlists]

A playlist is a list of media files (usually audio or video) to be played back in a user-specified order (e.g. random, by name, by artist).

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VLC Playlist with random selection from folders

I would like to make a simple playlist in VLC where the first file is loaded randomly from folder "A", then the second one randomly from folder "B", then loop from beginning and load different files ...
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Can someone tell me how to remove or completely disable the playlist function altogether in Pot Player?

I only want to play one single video that I have selected to play from my listing in Download or other file location. I don't want to be presented with a list of other videos that I have watched in ...
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How to create really random smart playlist in iTunes?

How can I create a smart playlist which would contain really random songs? Is there any hint how to do it? I've tried to set up in the "Match the following rule" chars like *****, / or ., ...
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How can I get a video URL list (e.g. YouTube playlist) as a playlist file (for media players)?

Following these steps has gotten me almost all the way: I can get a text file of YouTube URLs from a YouTube playlist by using this https://thetubelab.com/get-all-urls-of-youtube-playlist-channel/ ...
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How to get playlist title with yt-dlp?

I want to get the playlist title of a youtube playlist and store it in a variable in a bash script. I have already tried these things: -e flag but it lists only the video titles -o flag and --get-...
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Expose video streams from M3U playlist through DLNA

Is it possible to somehow expose or share an M3U playlist file via DLNA? I have a playlist in the standart M3U format, like this: #EXTINF:0 tvg-rec="0",Name of channel #EXTGRP:France http://...
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How to add images to m3u8 playlist entries?

I'm assembling a m3u8 playlist of TV live streams. The streams themselves are m3u8 files on the web. I would like to add icons the the entries of the playlist. Unfortunately I was not successful in ...
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AIMP 3 Repeats One Track In Playlist

When I'm trying to play a playlist, it plays the first track and then repeats it. How to make it play the next track instead?
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PotPlayer playlist Issue

Whenever I play a video in Potplayer, it automatically creates a playlist from all the video files present in the same Folder. That's fine with me, but problem is it always plays the last Video in the ...
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How to prevent automatic jumping to the next track?

I need to play a list of mp3 files one by one. I mean I need to go to the next track manually. I tried to do so in PotPlayer, WMP and VLC. All of them jump to the next track after playing the current ...
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iTunes Smart Playlist w/podcasts - not picking up all episodes

Using iTunes for Windows from Microsoft Store. Would rather not use 3rd party programs if there's a way to do what I need with Podcasts. Summary - I have a lot of mp3 files (~1000) from different ...
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How do I download ONLY the YouTube playlist, NOT the files therein?

In youtube-dl, I'm trying to get only the playlist content (should be 600+ entries) from a URL, thus: youtube-dl -i -v --flat-playlist --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNotezuR73g&...
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Disabling subtitles within M3U playlists

I have hundreds of playlists, some days-long, that run on my media machine. But if there are MKV files with subtitles VLC is displaying the subtitles all the time. It is distracting and I have to ...
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How to fix VLC sorting playlist wrongly?

Scenario: VLC 3.08, the playlist have more than 20 tracks and is sorted as follow 1. VideoA 2. VideoB (...) 11.VideoX 12.VideoY (...) 20.Video Z (...) Problem: The sorting by title ends up like this ...
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How to make playlists for DLNA players?

One thing I noticed when I setup my DLNA server (minidlna on Debian) is that the protocol supports creating playlists. I would like to take advantage of it. My questions: What format does the ...
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Prevent the youtube-dl process fork when downloading metadata for a video in a playlist

Storing the metadata for a video using in a file using youtube-dl can be done in bash by calling youtube-dl -j https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${video_id} > metadata.json However, when the video ...
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How To Get VLC Multiple Playlists With A Single Instance?

Requirments: I need to get VLC to have the ability to: Add many playlists. Deal with each playlist separately. Have the player remember every playlist play position when moving between them. I need ...
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How can I make VLC only play the song I double click?

VLC Media Player adds a song to it's default playlist when you double-click that file in Explorer. If I'm jumping around quickly, that playlist becomes large and unwanted. Is there a way I can ...
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Prevent VLC from looping playlist

I'm trying to prevent VLC from looping back to the beginning of a playlist when I hit "next video". Is there a way to disable it from playing the first video in a playlist if you click "...
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Where does Groove Music store playlists?

I've set up a clean installation of windows 10 but i have my old disk image backed up, I restored all the music by simply adding their folders back but I also want my playlists, anyone knows where ...
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How to make a playlist xspf from a directory with python for VLC?

I need to make with python a program that generate a playlist xspf taking a directory of local music for VLC, thanks for the help.
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How to create playlists of local media files without relying on paths?

I'd like to create playlists of locally stored media files, and synchronize these playlists between my devices (desktop/laptop/phone.) However, there's one major point of friction: due to some changes ...
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MPC Playlist not loading last played media

I have this problem in which I created a playlist with some video files and saved the mpcpl file. Now when I open this mpcpl file, instead of playing from the last position of the last running video, ...
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How to remember positions within multiple files in Media Player Classic?

I tend to have many instances of Media Player Classic (Best Player in my opinion) open because I switch from one video to another, then pause and go back to it later (as in, hours or days). Is there ...
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Is there a way to download the auto generated subtitles of videos in a private / public YouTube playlist?

I found this cool Reddit link here which basically does what the title says, but this stuff felt a bit confusing to me. Can somebody please suggest if there's a better way to download the ...
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Formatting output from playlist-only download from youtube-dl

In reference to question youtube-dl; How download ONLY the playlist, NOT the files therein Can i get output like the following : https://youtu.be/0gvUCLL-UGE | video title https://youtu.be/...
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Using youtube-dl, how do I get the length of an extremely long playlist

Using youtube-dl:s json capabilities together with jq like so: youtube-dl -J --flat-playlist [playlist_url] | jq '.entries | length' I can get the number of videos in a playlist. This does consume an ...
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How to show the amout of numbers in a playlist in the details view in Windows Explorer?

Here's my problem. In mp3 files and other audio formats, when metadata is inserted, and you open Windows Explorer and set the view to Details, you can see the information for each track. I'm using ...
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Save a YouTube playlist of all videos from an uploader

The only way I know to automatically generate a playlist of all videos from an uploader is adding "&list=UL" at the end of url of any video from the uploader. Usually I can copy a playlist into ...
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How can i play different music playlists through different output sources on the same media player?

How can I play different music playlists through different output sources on the same media player? So one Bluetooth speaker playing nirvana. Headphones playing Led Zeppelin. And network speaker ...
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Playlist playing order in VLC media player

When marking several music files in finder, and opening them in VLC media player, the player starts playing the last file and stops. What's the trick to make it play the files in the selected order? ...
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How do I reorder the playlist items in the VLC playlist window?

In the VLC playlist window, I can't seem to drag the items around to change their order. Is that normal? In every other media player I've used before, this is possible. At the moment I'm resorting to ...
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Dynamic Output m3u8

In FFMpeg i can put a dynamic directory ? for example : ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -stimeout 5000000 -i "rtsp:website" -vf scale=640:360 -c:v libx264 -crf 21 -preset veryfast -g 25 -...
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How to translate a WMP playlist back to English?

I'm using WMP on Windows 10 to manage my .MP3 playlists, and a certain album has gotten itself 'stuck' in a Japanese translation. Presumably it did this after I clicked to update the album info. I ...
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How do I play a particular playlist with mpc?

I am using mpd with mpc for all my music needs. Now, what I want to ask is how to load/play songs from a particular playlist in mpc/mpd so that it only plays those song. For example, I created a ...
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How to display current playlist/track list in Windows Media Player 12?

On my work computer, Windows Media Player 12 is installed: Version: 12.0.7601.17514. I'm not able to get the currently queued tracks or playlist to display like in previous versions. Here's what I'm ...
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Copy files from foobar playlist to other location

I have compiled a playlist in foobar audio player. My files lie in nested folders. There's a common root. Then there's a folder to distinguish the origin of the files (bought from amazon, iTunes, ...
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What factors are used to generate Genius Playlists in iTunes?

I'm curious as to all the factors that are taken into account when iTunes constructs a Genius Playlist. Do listening habits such as Play Count and Skipped Count have any effect? Are the ratings that I ...
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iTunes Smart Playlist combining 2 genres

Let say for example that I want an iTunes playlist that includes All Hip-Hop and Rap songs. I create a smart play list with: Genre > contains > Hip-Hop Genre > contains > Rap But then ...
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Is that possible for Windows to play format playlist.m3u8 which made fully support on iOS or Mac?

There are live TV and radio channels which the file format is playlist.m3u8 and this file can be played on iOS as well as Mac OS X. I wonder if there is any workaround or way to make it play on ...
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m3u playlist remove directories

Simple question here but I'm guessing there's not such a simple answer. I'm moving m3u playlists from my PC to my smart phone therefore I mass change the directories to suit (see below) as the files ...
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Watch folder with VLC

I love VLC but would love it even more if I could get the media library to watch a folder so it updates when new movies download. Is there a way to do this? I'm on a mac.
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VLC and playlist with individual volume control

It seems impossible but I have to ask anyway. Is it possible to create a playlist that will make VLC play a set of files at individual volume level? I am fiddling with the Audio compressor (not very ...
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Multiple Powerpoint files Playlist functionality in VB?

My goal is to be able to play back a set of separate Powerpoint .pptx files stored within a directory via a form of playlist which will define the order of files. Assuming this is only possible via ...
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vlc - video and playlist simultaneously like windows media player

I like a lot of the features that offers VLC player but i didn't achieve to have see eithrt the video and the playlist in the same window, and without the library folders, only the video and the ...
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Import iTunes Playlist to Spotify

I decided to get back into Spotify knowing how versatile the app is. The problem I am having is that there is no simple way to import iTunes playlists in the newest version 1.0.10.107.gd0dfca3a ...
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Play files with double click instead single click in playlist of VLC

There is any option to change this behavior? I'm using VLC in Kubuntu.
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Dynamic Spotify Playlist of my Top Tracks on Last.fm?

Is there anyway to create a dynamic Spotify Playlist which automatically updates with the Top 100 tracks from my Last.fm account? I know it's possible to create a playlist of my Last.fm loved tracks ...
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VLC - Sort by multiple columns, e.g. Artist, then Year, then Album

A two part question, related to playing music in VLC: Can you sort by multiple columns? For example, Artist > Year > Album > Track Number. Is there a way to get VLC to show the year in the playlist? ...
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Display remaining time in playlist in VLC

Is there any way to display the remaining time in the current playlist in VLC? Right now I can see the total time of the playlist: and the remaining time for the current video: but I didn't find the ...