If VLC is active and a song is playing, why can't I double click on one of my playlists and interrupt it?

[Jayinem]

If I double click a playlist it just adds it to playlists as <playlist>.xspf, but doesn't actually play. Is this a matter of just how VLC is made or is there some setting I can change, or could I use command line?

I've even figured out scripts using autohotkey scripts to run different playlists just by hitting different keyboard keys, I can pause stop go to next song or previous song while VLC is completely minimized using my keyboard, but the only thing I've not been able to figure out when it comes to just playing whatever playlist I want if VLC is active at all, doesn't matter if minimized, fullscreen or windowed if I play a playlist it will not play it which seems odd to me, if VLC is not active it runs perfect. I can run a script to kill VLC.exe and then run the playlist all in one script which if I have to settle for that I will but I would prefer if I could seemlessly change to a different playlist if I prefer to? I have only figured out how to write the script to where VLC activates then closes so it flashes, then VLC activates when playing the playlist then it minmizes, if I could do it all minimized that'd be fine but haven't figured out how. I could post my script if it helps.

It just seems like a weird thing that you can't just start a new playlist away from VLC by double clicking and it takes over the song or video unless there's some setting I need to change which is what I'm hoping or some command line I need to run. I looked at the command line documentation as much as I could but couldn't find anything.

And yes I prefer to use only one instance of VLC, if I allow multiple instances it will play the playlist I click on while the other is still playing, not really ideal and who wants multiple windows of any app.