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VLC plays one song then when the next song starts it doesn't - it just keeps showing me that it's loading but it never actually plays the song. I tried restarting my Windows laptop but it still has the same issue. This started after I was adding files to the VLC playlist. At first, I thought it was because I was out of space but now that I have space it's still doing this. I noticed that it only happens when I use "open file"/"add file" and play files from within VLC instead of windows explorer.

VLC version 3.0.12 Vetinari on Windows 11

I attached a link to the VLC messages text file.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19mxJE8 ... share_link

Update to the latest version of VLC, v3.0.18 as of today.

It stills has the issue. I even uninstalled and it still has the exact same issue

I found this in your log:
I'm not sure what it is about so you should create a new report ticket on the VLC Trac with your above report including the link to your messages log file, the link to your playlist file and the link to this thread:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues

download and run the VLC version 3.0.3 setup and when it tells you if you want to downgrade? say yes and let it do it's thing, because I've had a lot of problems once I installed and upgraded to VLC 3.0.18.

First off 3.0.18 has got some major shuffle issues I explained my story about it in this thread
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=161386