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I'm kinda stumped on this and my Google Fu has failed me.

My setup:

Samba server with all my music + m3u playlists (which have been created by VLC)

IOS devices with VLC on the same network as the Samba server

I pull up the playlist via network stream using smb://<IP/hostname>/playlist.m3u or browsing to it using File Servers part of the Network tab. Doesn't seem to make a difference.

When I try to play the m3u playlist only the first song in the playlist will play. So say I have a playlist of:

• Song 1
  
  Song 2
  
  Song 3

Only Song 1 will play in iOS.

If I modify the playlist to be:

• Song 3
  
  Song 2
  
  Song 1

Only Song 3 will play in iOS.

I have no problems with any of these playlists using desktop VLC over Samba they will play all the songs. I do not have an Android to test this on either. I tried this on my Apple TV and it behaves as expected and plays all the songs.

Seems to be an iOS limitation, so I asked a possible workaround in this Stack https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/439810/421125
also to reproduce the error I created an example play repo https://biker-elegant.github.io/Stackoverflow-m3u/

Is "play next item automatically" enabled in the Settings section of VLC on your iPhone?

I'm also having this issue. I'm connecting via SMB on my iPhone. I get the exact same issue on my iPad too.

An example of the contents of an m3u file I'm using: VLC just plays the first track, but won't allow me skip to any other tracks (unlike when I play the FLAC files from the folder directly).
However if I set shuffle, it skips to the next playlist file, not the next item in the playlist.

A fix for this would be much appreciated, as a big reason for sharing my files via SMB was also to share my playlists.

My system details:
iPhone 11 Pro
iOS 15.5 (19F77)
VLC iOS 3.3.7 (432)

Is "play next item automatically" enabled in the Settings section of VLC on your iPhone?

I forgot to mention, I can confirm this setting is enabled on my iPhone.