I'm getting this issue too, all these years later. It's disappointing to not see any resolution on this thread :/ This is the output from vlc -vvv (which does show taglib enabled): main input debug: Creating an input for preparsing 'c6ea2328d95df6a2007bcf8dabc24530462a49f4923980aa5f8d3bc29b8d4daf' m...