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Hello, I would like to play shows that are in folders one by one, like this

Show 1 Ep 1
Show 2 Ep 1
Show 3 Ep 1
Show 1 Ep 2
Show 2 Ep 2
Show 3 Ep 2
Show 1 Ep 3
Etc

Is there any way to splice folders together like this? To simulate a real TV station alternating between different shows?

Can you not better explain your problem?
What are "shows"?
What is "Show 1 Ep 1"?
What do you mean by "splice folders"?
What are you saying with: "... splice folders together like this"?

What I mean is

Say I have 2 folders, both with episodes of a TV show. How can I make VLC alternate between playing episodes of them.

Show 1 Ep 1
Show 2 Ep 1
Show 3 Ep 1
Show 1 Ep 2
Show 2 Ep 2
Show 3 Ep 2
Show 1 Ep 3

You can manually prepare such playlist or write a VLC Extension Lua script that would generate it for you.

Is there a way to do it automatically? I don't know how to LUA script, how would I go about learning? Can any other players do this?

If you use plain playlist structure (no playlist tree) and all episodes have the same title format (filename or metadata title tag), then you just sort items by title and you can recognize them by their URI. I doubt there is a player with such a specific feature. You can help yourself with Lua in VLC:
Forum Scripting VLC in Lua, pinned topic Getting started?
Check some VLC Extensions what/how they do: Resume Media, Sampler (PG), Add Similar Files From Folder.

Do you have any more assistance outside of me learning Lua? It seems crazy that NO player can do this, isn't there just a way to alternate between episodes from seperate playlist files?

Thankyou

The Extension: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 67#p430609