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Good day:

I opened a stream using the "open location from clipboard".
The location is an M3U file of 22-30 mp3 files.

What will happen is after 3 minutes (or so) of a song, the player will skip to the beginning of the next song in the m3u playlist.

Is there a way to correct this so that the player will play the entire song before going to the next entry in the playlist?
thanks,
DarkStarHarry

Note: using VLC 2.1.5 ricewind on a Windows 10 computer.

You should try with a newer version of VLC.

using version 2.2.4 weatherwax.
Same issue.

Please advise.
thanks,
DarkStarHarry

You opened a stream. The location is an M3U file. Is this M3U file on your computer?
Can you provide an example of such a stream?

The M3U file is on my desktop.
I can provide the text of the file if you'd like (as to avoid having to Dropbox it, or similar file transfer)

You have written:

The location is an M3U file of 22-30 mp3 files.

Where are the 22-30 mp3 files?

here's the address to the M3U file...

https://archive.org/download/gd79-01-10 ... nf_vbr.m3u

You wrote: "The M3U file is on my desktop."
"https://archive.org/download/gd79-01-10 ... nf_vbr.m3u" is a network address!

I have tested this MRL. There were 23 MP3 files with a total playing time of 2 hours, 56 minutes and 58 seconds.

All pieces were played without interruption until the end.

Reset all settings for preferences and cache as described here:
https://wiki.videolan.org/Reset_Setting ... s_from_VLC

No luck.. still happening.
Is there a buffer setting (or something else) I can change that might fix this?

This typically occurs when the server terminated the HTTP connection before the end of the file. There is (probably) a setting to fix this - but that would on the server side.

You can try VLC 3.0 nightlies which attempt to work around the problem by reconnecting.

This typically occurs when the server terminated the HTTP connection before the end of the file. There is (probably) a setting to fix this - but that would on the server side.

Yes, that's for sure.
It is peculiar, however, that there was not a single interruption in my case.