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Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby stone the gardener » 22 May 2024 15:42

Worked with HP windows 11.
Now using lenovo also windows 11.

Plays one song over and over...
I've tried taking working copy of VLC from other machine, I've tried a fresh download... no good.

Please suggest.

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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 22 May 2024 20:24

Sounds like you have enabled playlist repeat mode.
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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby stone the gardener » 23 May 2024 13:49

I don't know what was enabled... but the player wasn't repeating the playlist, it was simply repeating the first song on the list.

After I went back to the house yesterday, I was able to solve...

Real simple solution....
Click start... Click all apps... Click videolan ...
Click reset preferences and cache...

Easy!
Too bad I was trying to fix from the back end...

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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 23 May 2024 21:12

You had playlist repeat mode enabled, and resetting the preferences disabled it.
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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby Evid » 23 May 2024 23:12

Sounds like you have it on "Repeat 1"

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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby stone the gardener » 24 May 2024 14:33

Sorry... I didn't care what was causing the issue as much as I was searching for a way to make it stop.
I clicked everything on the player looking for a solution...

Maybe consider adding that link to the player somewhere in the future?

And... Shouldn't playlist repeat have repeated entire playlist?
That would have been acceptable to me... Playing the first song on the playlist over and over was the problem....
I wanted the rest of the list played.

That's the part that doesn't make sense to me, even with the responses you all have kindly offered... It's not making sense how the player could get stuck on the first song.

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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 24 May 2024 16:58

Err, I hate to state the obvious but VLC has three modes: no loop, loop all playlist, and repeat current item. Most other players work the same way (leaving aside random).
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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby stone the gardener » 25 May 2024 13:40

VLC has three modes: no loop, loop all playlist, and repeat current item.
I still can not find how to change those settings.
This morning it was back on repeat current item... I never want that setting... I'd be thrilled to be able to find and squash.

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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 25 May 2024 13:46

Again, hate to state the obvious, but like most players, it's right there in the playlist controls, between toggle playlist and random.
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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby stone the gardener » 25 May 2024 22:43

I'm sure that you are saying something that's perfectly obvious to you, and If I could find this in the controls, I wouldn't have started this thread.
It's back to playing the same song on repeat.
This is 3.0.20
I may just uninstall and try to install the version that worked...

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Re: Refuses to play next song on list or in folder

Postby stone the gardener » 27 May 2024 15:57

3.0.17.4 is now working on my laptop the way that I expect it to.

Still don't know what was the problem with the other one or why I couldn't get any suggestions on this forum.

As far as working the same as any other media player?
I think not.
If I wanted to use windows media, I would have to deal with "unknown artist" On the songs... and being told that I didn't have "permission" to correct.
like most players, it's right there in the playlist controls, between toggle playlist and random.
I've tried all the controls.
Mind posting a screen shot?

Not seeing a right click help window, not seeing any feed back information after clicking button to suggest that anything happened...


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