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Hi - actually, my post was merged by the admins into your thread, so I didn't even notice I am replying in a thread, that wasn't mine anymore (you can see my original post - it's the third one) As for your remark - no, I wasn't asking to remove tags in VLC - I just replied to the above question in t...

What need, is a possibility to run a new empty window of VLC with a new empty playlist. is that possible? My situation is that I need to play 2 different playlists of multiple files in 2 separate windows. Normally, I select multiple files in a folder, click play with VLC, and they all play in one pl...

The only way to show File names, is to remove all Tags from your files. I use Adobe Bridge to do it. You can use any tag tool to remove tags.
There is no option to do it in VLC - that's exactly what we are asking for.

I really like VLC, I use it for playing almost all my media, but there is one extremely annoying behavior, which, for reasons unknown, is not being solved for years - There is no option to force VLC to show just File Names. VLC uses only Meta Title Tags to display the track names. While in some case...

It's version 1.1.8 now already and I still don't see any fix to that problem - the currently playing song is not highlighted in the playlist, and VLC doesn't display filename - only the name that it reads in the metadata, which is often just wrong or corrupted...

Pretty much in the title - the song that is currently playing is NOT highlighted in the VLC Playlist. And also another problem - VLC only shows metadata names of the songs, never the file names. It's really frustrating, because it's so hard to see what is playing now, especially with a big playlist ...