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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 to create really random smart playlist in iTunes?

How can I create a smart playlist which would contain really random songs? Is there any hint how to do it? I've tried to set up in the "Match the following rule" chars like *****, / or ., ...
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What a correct playlist.m3u8 should contain, or should look like?

24/06/2024: [Presentation of the problem] I had dowloaded some videos from the Internet, few years ago. I obtained many files: a series of files in .ts a single file playlist.m3u8 In my example: A ...
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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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How to prevent automatic jumping to the next track?

I need to play a list of mp3 files one by one. I mean I need to go to the next track manually. I tried to do so in PotPlayer, WMP and VLC. All of them jump to the next track after playing the current ...
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Specify output device for multiple files in playlist

I'm running Windows 10 (10.0.19045.4170) which has the ability to forward sound from specific applications to specific audio devices (Settings -> System -> Sound -> App volume and device ...
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Can someone tell me how to remove or completely disable the playlist function altogether in Pot Player?

I only want to play one single video that I have selected to play from my listing in Download or other file location. I don't want to be presented with a list of other videos that I have watched in ...
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VLC Playlist with random selection from folders

I would like to make a simple playlist in VLC where the first file is loaded randomly from folder "A", then the second one randomly from folder "B", then loop from beginning and load different files ...
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How can I get a video URL list (e.g. YouTube playlist) as a playlist file (for media players)?

Following these steps has gotten me almost all the way: I can get a text file of YouTube URLs from a YouTube playlist by using this https://thetubelab.com/get-all-urls-of-youtube-playlist-channel/ ...
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How to get playlist title with yt-dlp?

I want to get the playlist title of a youtube playlist and store it in a variable in a bash script. I have already tried these things: -e flag but it lists only the video titles -o flag and --get-...
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Expose video streams from M3U playlist through DLNA

Is it possible to somehow expose or share an M3U playlist file via DLNA? I have a playlist in the standart M3U format, like this: #EXTINF:0 tvg-rec="0",Name of channel #EXTGRP:France http://...
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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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PotPlayer playlist Issue

Whenever I play a video in Potplayer, it automatically creates a playlist from all the video files present in the same Folder. That's fine with me, but problem is it always plays the last Video in the ...
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iTunes Smart Playlist w/podcasts - not picking up all episodes

Using iTunes for Windows from Microsoft Store. Would rather not use 3rd party programs if there's a way to do what I need with Podcasts. Summary - I have a lot of mp3 files (~1000) from different ...
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How do I download ONLY the YouTube playlist, NOT the files therein?

In youtube-dl, I'm trying to get only the playlist content (should be 600+ entries) from a URL, thus: youtube-dl -i -v --flat-playlist --skip-download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNotezuR73g&...
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Disabling subtitles within M3U playlists

I have hundreds of playlists, some days-long, that run on my media machine. But if there are MKV files with subtitles VLC is displaying the subtitles all the time. It is distracting and I have to ...

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