I think there may be solutions for you’re problems. 1. VLC stopping. I think this may be because you have a screensaver/energy settings set up which will interfere with the playing of VLC. In my case I addressed this by putting all these settings onto an hour rather than the default and VLC works fine for that time at least. There may be another work around and I wish VLC ignores the energy/screensaver settings but that seems not to be the case. 2. I think you can do what you want to do with VLC in terms of playing multiple sub ,folders but it would take a little setting up. A one off investment of effort would be necessary. To deal with the issue with your sub folders you could do the following. Just how feasible this is depends on the number of sub folders I guess. a. Open VLC by going to Finder and locate the first sub folder and pressing command A and command down arrow to create the temporary playlist as normal. b. Press space in VLC to pause the playing. c. command tab back to Finder and then open and then add the next sub folder to your temporary playlist,. Repeat the process. Now continue to press space to pause VLC playing as each folder is added then command tab back to Finder to add each sub folder and sub folder to the growing temporary playlist you have created. d. Eventually you will have a giant temporary playlist which will include all your sub folders. Finally add all the individual tracks you want to the mega temporary playlist. Again just opening them from Finder whilst VLC is open will add them to the temporary playlist VLC is creating. E. The final step of course is to save this playlist as a real Playlist with Command S,. Give it a name , ;and location and opening this single playlist file in future should allow you randomised access to all the music you require.
David Griffith folder y > On 10 Jan 2015, at 05:33, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: > > some of the folders I want to play have subfolders. what happened when I did > the command-a and then command-down arrow is that each subfolder opened in > its own window. the thing I’m trying to do is to get vlc to radom or shuffle > a large folder with subfolders in it. in windows I did this using the context > menu and basically “open with” although sometimes it would say “play in”. > your suggestion worked great for the folder that only had individual songs in > it but the folders with the subfolders appear to drive it crazy. it stops a > lot too and I have to manually tell to go to the next track. I have random > checked and also stop when everything has been played although technically > that would never happen because it’s too large for everything to be played in > the time I have to listen. >> On Jan 9, 2015, at 4:20 PM, David Griffith <daj.griff...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have not really been following this thread but I am not sure why you are >> having to use Terminal. There may be some reason you want O take the >> Terminal route that I have not picked up on. however I do not have to use >> Terminal to play folders of music with VLC. Whatever the folder size if I >> want to play a folder of music in VLC, I simply press command A in the >> Finder folder window and then command down arrow to open the selected files >> as a temporary playlist in VLC. This assumes that VLC is the default player >> for the files you want to play. >> Alternatively just open VLC, press command O, highlight the folder and press >> return and this will do the same thing. >> >> David Griffith >>> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:43, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I got the terminal commands to work with VLC last night. it started playing >>> right away but it stopped often and I would have to tell it to go to the >>> next track. it staid stuck in the same album and wouldn’t wander around as >>> I wanted it to. it’s a pretty big folder probably 25 or more artists and a >>> lot of them have more than 1 album. is there some setting I can change to >>> get it to do what I want or do you think maybe the folder’s just too big? >>> >>> TThanks. >>>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you >>>> open terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the >>>> directory. For instance from my home directory: >>>> >>>> open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical >>>> >>>> I made this up but this should give you an example. >>>> >>>> If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an >>>> exact example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you >>>> can tab to have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can >>>> probably tab and it will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after >>>> that and no space so you would have to space before typing the directory. >>>> The same with /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should >>>> compete /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can >>>> start VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to >>>> know what you are doing. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Cheryl >>>> >>>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>>> thrown in the trash! >>>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>>> And now, every day: >>>> "This I call to mind, >>>> and therefore I have hope: >>>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>>> never ceases; >>>> his mercies never come to an end; >>>> they are new every morning; >>>> great is your faithfulness." >>>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions >>>> about how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not >>>> exist”. it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax >>>> incorrectly as far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before >>>> that? 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