Right Click Play on Folder does not list contents and Shuffle Bug

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Right Click Play on Folder does not list contents and Shuffle Bug

Postby c627627 » 14 Dec 2020 01:42

If you use the right-click option to play a folder which has (for example) three subfolders, then instead of lining up the songs from three subfolders, VLC lines up the name of the folder, instead of the individual songs from those subfolders.

Then, the Shuffle mode may play the same song twice before playing songs that were not played yet! That is not how Shuffle mode is supposed to work:
It is supposed to play each song once, randomly until all songs are played. Same song should not be played in shuffle mode, shuffle mode should play all the songs in random order, WITHOUT ever playing the same song twice in shuffle mode.

I also think that the Shuffle mode is not playing songs from within the subfolders because VLC Playlist lists subfolder names, not contents of those subfolders. But further testing is needed on that.

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Re: Right Click Play on Folder does not list contents and Shuffle Bug

Postby Hitchhiker » 14 Dec 2020 12:41


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Re: Right Click Play on Folder does not list contents and Shuffle Bug

Postby c627627 » 14 Dec 2020 19:14

I understand the link is not link to a solution but a link to a thread in which this is already being discussed as a known problem... as of mid December 2020.

It's almost 2021. And VLC does not have a functioning Shuffle feature. I don't know what to say.


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