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I love VLC but would love it even more if I could get the media library to watch a folder so it updates when new movies download. Is there a way to do this?

I'm on a mac.

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    May I recommend taking to the VLC forums for this, the answer may much quicker than here.
    – user88311
    Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 16:39
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    I would, but the VLC forum is such a hideously designed mess that it is impossible to find any information there.
    – mynameisnotallowed
    Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 21:25
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    You should just code the feature yourself
    – Jeremy Thompson
    Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 6:25

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At least in the Windows version of VLC you can play a folder. And it will automatically detect new files on file change.

To open a directory use either the menu Media -> open folder or the Shortcut. On windows it's Ctrl+F

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  • I just tried "Open Folder" with VLC 2.2.6 for Windows, and it didn't detect when files were added to the folder. Is there a trick to making it work?
    – Chad von Nau
    Commented Aug 29, 2017 at 21:29
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I've created a tiny open-source app for macOS and Windows called VLC Scheduler which does exactly that. It watches the folders specified in its configuration file (vlcscheduler.yaml) for new media files and adds them to VLC. Minimal configuration for macOS:

sources:
    - path: /Users/<username>/Movies/VLC/
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