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Get a stack trace with debug symbols and gdb, and file a bug. Do you want to pull my legs? I don't have VLC with debug symbols and there is no such version available in the repositories. And running gdb without symbols is more or less senseless... But a shot look in the souce code shows the problem...

VLC with interface "ncurses" is playing a song in a native Linux console. Output is a HTTP stream. That works fine. #!/bin/sh HOST=192.168.2.106 PORT=8005 CNTL=8488 PASS=******** PLAYLIST=/opt/media/music/playlist vlc -I ncurses --loop --random --playlist-autostart --no-video --extraintf=h...

I don't know your autostart app, but "Total Commander" has no problems to start VLC to play an audio file.
On my android's desktop is a start button that starts TC to download latest news (podcast) and then starts VLC to play this file.

Yes, on a rooted device there is a way. You must have a sqlite3 binary on your device and a command line app like "Terminal Emulator" installed. The app "Titanium Backup" contains a usable sqlite3 binary. In the command window type (replace 'sqlite3' with path to the file): sqlit...

It's said that VLC is compatible with ID3v2 and multiple genres are part of the ID3v2 standard since 16 years. That is a long time to learn about... v2.3 expanded the frame identifier to four characters, and added a number of frames. A frame can contain multiple values, separated with a null byte. T...

VLC Android 1.5.9 (all versions) doesn't show artist/title info correctly when playing MP3 webradio streams.
Sometimes when starting a new radio stream or playlist with streams artist/title info is displayed but never updated.
In most cases there is shown "unknown artist"

Same problem here with my audio collection. A really huge cache containing thousands of redundant art works files consumes nearly all internal memory (sdcard0). No way to move cache to sdcard1 nor to limit cache size. WTF... I solved it this way: Every audio file is completely tagged incl. art work....

VLC-Android-1.5.2-20150905 on Huawei Ascend Y550 Audio (radio stream): - artist and title never shown, always "unknown artist". (VLC for Linux works fine) . - VLC crashes when try to store a playlist with radio stream(s). Output from logcat: E/AndroidRuntime( 5113): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E...