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Posted: **21 Mar 2015 01:52**

I organize my media in the 'My Videos', 'My Music', 'My Pictures' directories into folders for organization. Currently, I need to 'play' a directory in order for VLC to open it and let me access the media within. This isn't really a big deal if I'm just looking for one album/song. But if I'd like to put my entire music collection on shuffle then it quickly becomes unrealistic to open up all the directories.

I know that one solution is to just put my entire music in a playlist, BUT there are two problems with this. One, playlists are static whereas the 'My Computer' directories mirror the actual directories. Anytime I add or delete music from my collection not only would I have to add it to my 'My Music' library on disc, but I'd have to update the collection playlist which is a little annoying. Two, (more of a personal preference really) I like the structure folders bring (the folders are destroyed when they're expanded in the playlist).

I'd really appreciate the development of an option to auto-instantiate the folders recursively for the 'My Computer' directories so that shuffling works properly.

Posted: **12 Apr 2015 20:22**

Hi, here's a forum post that explains this better than I did: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=103925

In vlc/modules/services_discovery/mediadirs.c

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static void *Run( void *data )
{
        ...

        input_item_AddOption( p_root, "recursive=collapse",
                              VLC_INPUT_OPTION_TRUSTED );

        ...
}

I tried changing the recursive option to "recursive=expand", but this didn't appear to have any effect. Could a seasoned vlc dev point me in the right direction?

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