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Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby seasoned_geek » 20 Nov 2018 20:46

All,

I've searched and search and fould lots of references to VLC actually having this feature (The __ONLY__ reason I installed it on Windows 10 because the Windows Media Player on this machine cannot remember a playlist or position) Then I found links to plugins which might have worked at one time. So far I find nada which causes VLC to remember an Audio (don't care about video, I'm listening to mustic and Podcasts at work) playslist and the position in that list when VLC was exited.

This sounds like a very simple thing. At some place in VLC it knows this information, but doesn't appear to write it to any permanent storage. I've been writing software over 30 years, so this "sounds" simple to me. Especially on Windows were applications have a directory to store such things in.

https://www.windows10themes.net/guides/ ... indows-10/

Am I just missing something?

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby Hitchhiker » 20 Nov 2018 21:53

Here you go.

  1. Click Tools ---> Preferences and checkmark the radio button at the bottom of the menu to enable the Advanced options.
  2. In the Search bar at the top, type: QT and then double click the Qt menu,
  3. Checkmark "Save the recently played items".
  4. In the "Continue playback?" menu, change "Ask" to "Always" via the dropdown menu.
  5. Click "Save" and then close and restart vlc.
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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby unidan » 23 Nov 2018 09:37

Hi,

What you want doesn't exist yet (except for the last position). You can check if there is a feature request on https://trac.videolan.org/vlc or create one if none exists.

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby seasoned_geek » 26 Nov 2018 16:48

Here you go.

  1. Click Tools ---> Preferences and checkmark the radio button at the bottom of the menu to enable the Advanced options.
  2. In the Search bar at the top, type: QT and then double click the Qt menu,
  3. Checkmark "Save the recently played items".
  4. In the "Continue playback?" menu, change "Ask" to "Always" via the dropdown menu.
  5. Click "Save" and then close and restart vlc.
Here's a screenshot.


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Just did this on a Windows 10 machine and no-worky.

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby vwmantom » 18 Aug 2020 00:22

[Checkmark "Save the recently played items".]
That option does not appear on the version I just downloaded. Your instructions were in 2018. Now it is 2020 and things seemed to have changed. Does anyone know of a way to make this work? Thanks

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby Lotesdelere » 18 Aug 2020 10:46

[Checkmark "Save the recently played items".]
That option does not appear on the version I just downloaded. Your instructions were in 2018. Now it is 2020 and things seemed to have changed. Does anyone know of a way to make this work? Thanks

Tools -> Preferences -> Interface
At the bottom, in the Privacy/NetworkInteraction section.

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby vwmantom » 20 Aug 2020 00:33

Tools -> Preferences -> Interface
At the bottom, in the Privacy/NetworkInteraction section.
I have that box checked but it still doesn't work.

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby shape5 » 27 Nov 2020 21:47

I opened a feature request for this here: Restore playlist state when re-opening app

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby suxscribe » 24 Apr 2021 19:43

+1

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Re: Remember Audio Playlist and Position on exit then reboot

Postby mdarh411 » 14 Sep 2021 12:52

Yes! I also need this feature on exit or reboot. I also check the "Save the recently played item". But it's not work for me.
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