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After browsing through my set of mp3s with my command prompt I typed the following:

C:\ ... \ > VLC *.mp3

and I got the error message: "*.mp3" not found when pressing play (why should I have to press play when I already invoked the function from the command prompt?!?) WTF!? I repeat; WT-bloody-F ?!?

Doesn't VLC parse and recognise Wildcards/Regular Expressions? I also tried #?.mp3 but that didn't work either.

When using wildcards in Media Player Classic or mplayer, i.e. launching the following at the command prompt:

C:\ ... \ > mplayerc.exe *.mp3
C:\ ... \ > mplayer.exe *.mp3

It adds all the files in the current directory that matches the wildcard expression into its built-in playlist and automatically starts playing the top/first item.

AFAIK VLC doesn't support wild cards.

access_directory error: *.mp4: No such file or directory
access_file error: cannot open file *.mp4 (Invalid argument)
main error: open of `*.mp4' failed: could not create access: no suitable access module

Any now known updates or workarounds regarding this matter?
I would still like to see VLC being able to handle wildcards for command-line.

wildcard are expended by shell, not VLC.