this appears to be a bug that i never remember previously
when i have multiple pieces of media open in their seperate VLC windows, no matter if i disable "remember audio level" or "always set level to this" it still starts what ever window reaches the end and either starts a new media or is looping the same media, it then starts with the audio level and video settings that the other one has
i remember distincly having something loop endlessly at 1 specific audio level, another at something else, same goes for video settings which i dont even see an option for yet, if i have something set a different playback speed, everytime i open something else it starts at that speed.
VLC 2.1.4 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS