Questions tagged [playlists]
A playlist is a list of media files (usually audio or video) to be played back in a user-specified order (e.g. random, by name, by artist).
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How do I reorder the playlist items in the VLC playlist window?
In the VLC playlist window, I can't seem to drag the items around to change their order. Is that normal? In every other media player I've used before, this is possible.
At the moment I'm resorting to ...
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Is that possible for Windows to play format playlist.m3u8 which made fully support on iOS or Mac?
There are live TV and radio channels which the file format is playlist.m3u8 and this file can be played on iOS as well as Mac OS X.
I wonder if there is any workaround or way to make it play on ...
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Where does Songbird stores the playlists?
Songbird is not working right on my machine, i'm trying to recover my playlists...
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AIMP 3 Repeats One Track In Playlist
When I'm trying to play a playlist, it plays the first track and then repeats it. How to make it play the next track instead?
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How to fix VLC sorting playlist wrongly?
Scenario: VLC 3.08, the playlist have more than 20 tracks and is sorted as follow
1. VideoA
2. VideoB
(...)
11.VideoX
12.VideoY
(...)
20.Video Z
(...)
Problem: The sorting by title ends up like this
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VLC - Sort by multiple columns, e.g. Artist, then Year, then Album
A two part question, related to playing music in VLC:
Can you sort by multiple columns? For example, Artist > Year > Album > Track Number.
Is there a way to get VLC to show the year in the playlist?
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Load M3U in Windows Media Player
I've got an m3u file which only has one line (C:\Users\James\Documents\Music). When I load this in Windows Media Player, I get an error saying "the selected file has an extension (.) that is not ...
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iTunes creating playlists on its own
Why does iTunes create a new playlist and start playing a few seconds from each one when I try to add albums to my library?
It means deleting about 400+ playlists, and having to wait a few hours for ...
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Is it possible to store playlists in music file metadata?
I have been trying to think of a way to store my playlists completely independently from any one music player, and I think that one way to do this would be to use each song's tags to store the list of ...
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Restrict iTunes smart playlist to audio only
I have a smart playlist of my favorite podcasts which I use for commuting -- it's mostly a simple collection of "Album contains This Week in Tech" or "Album contains Croncast", etc.
The feed from The ...
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How to add images to m3u8 playlist entries?
I'm assembling a m3u8 playlist of TV live streams. The streams themselves are m3u8 files on the web. I would like to add icons the the entries of the playlist. Unfortunately I was not successful in ...
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Open file with VLC without adding to playlist?
When I open WAV files individually from Windows Explorer to open in VLC, it adds each newly open file to the VLC playlist instead of simply discarding the previous file and playing a new one.
How do ...
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Playlist file format for video segments
Is there a playlist file format listing segments of files instead of entire files?
For example it would start playing a file jumping straight to 3'12", play it untill 5'42" and switch to the next ...
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How to display current playlist/track list in Windows Media Player 12?
On my work computer, Windows Media Player 12 is installed: Version: 12.0.7601.17514. I'm not able to get the currently queued tracks or playlist to display like in previous versions.
Here's what I'm ...
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How do I delete songs not in playlists in iTunes?
I have lots of music in iTunes, but there's tons of crap I never listen to just taking up space. Is there a way I can easily delete all songs not in a playlist?
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