How do I stop VLC from starting playlists in shuffle?

[OneTimeUser]

I know this has been asked before, but the answer I saw did not apply to me. I open a playlist, and it's already in shuffle mode, even though when I created the .m3u, it was not in shuffle.

Anyone?

Thanks!

[Lotesdelere]

Make sure the Random button is not pressed down.

[OneTimeUser]

Anyone else?

[zcot]

The playlist is not in shuffle mode.

.m3u doesn't have any specification for playlist modes, so it's not relevant on how it was created. It's simply a list of files.

vlc will restart each time in the same mode you had selected when you closed it last time.

Another thing to check is under Tools -> Preferences, tick Show setting - All at the bottom. Now select Playlist option. If it shows Play files randomly forever, then uncheck that, then click Save.

also you could start vlc with a command like

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vlc --no-random playlist.m3u

[OneTimeUser]

How do I activate that command? I really like this idea. Thanks,

[zcot]

The easiest thing is to do this, and then vlc will not shuffle.

check under Tools -> Preferences, tick Show setting - All at the bottom. Now select Playlist option. If it shows Play files randomly forever, then uncheck that, then click Save.

But if you want to run it under a command prompt then just use the --no-random switch. Open a command prompt in the vlc directory, or cd to it, or add to your PATH environment variable, then type something like this:
start vlc.exe --no-random D:\MEDIA\facesplitter.m3u

maybe you just want to make a batch file in your media directory and then make a shortcut to that .bat on your desktop or start menu...

If I were going to be using vlc from the command line then I would definitely create an appropriate shortcut to command prompt in the vlc directory. And I would probably add that path and D:\MEDIA\ to my PATH environment variable.