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I searched around and didn't see this question answered elsewhere. If it has been answered, please point me in the right direction. Thanks.

I use VLC as a standalone player to play songs on my college radio show. I launch a new player for each file by loading the file from its directory. However, VLC has the unfortunate feature of starting playback as soon as a file is loaded. I need to start the songs manually after loading them.

How do I set VLC only to cue a file when loaded instead of starting playback automatically?

Thanks for your help.

--playlist-enqueue, --no-playlist-enqueue
Enqueue items to playlist when in one
instance mode (default disabled)
When using the one instance only option, enqueue items to playlist
and keep playing current item. (default disabled)

http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help

You either enable it from VLC or you can add it to context menu startup options by editing the registry.

Thanks for your help!

Sorry for being a NB, but how would you modify the registry to make VLC not autoplay video/music files? What key and command-line option would you use?

I tried looking for an option in the regular VLC interface, but couldn't find the option to turn off autoplay. Help please?

You would have to add --playlist-enqueue to each filetype in registry.

Thank you kindly!