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I know this has been asked before, but the answer I saw did not apply to me. I open a playlist, and it's already in shuffle mode, even though when I created the .m3u, it was not in shuffle.

Anyone?

Thanks!

Make sure the Random button is not pressed down.

Anyone else?

The playlist is not in shuffle mode.

.m3u doesn't have any specification for playlist modes, so it's not relevant on how it was created. It's simply a list of files.

vlc will restart each time in the same mode you had selected when you closed it last time.

Another thing to check is under Tools -> Preferences, tick Show setting - All at the bottom. Now select Playlist option. If it shows Play files randomly forever, then uncheck that, then click Save.

also you could start vlc with a command like

How do I activate that command? I really like this idea. Thanks,

The easiest thing is to do this, and then vlc will not shuffle.

check under Tools -> Preferences, tick Show setting - All at the bottom. Now select Playlist option. If it shows Play files randomly forever, then uncheck that, then click Save.

But if you want to run it under a command prompt then just use the --no-random switch. Open a command prompt in the vlc directory, or cd to it, or add to your PATH environment variable, then type something like this:
start vlc.exe --no-random D:\MEDIA\facesplitter.m3u

maybe you just want to make a batch file in your media directory and then make a shortcut to that .bat on your desktop or start menu...

If I were going to be using vlc from the command line then I would definitely create an appropriate shortcut to command prompt in the vlc directory. And I would probably add that path and D:\MEDIA\ to my PATH environment variable.