well, I checked that so it wouldn’t keep p[laying the same songs over and over again. I’ll experiment some more. > On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:27 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmm, there just has to be a reason why it is stopping instead of continuing > to play; you shouldn't have to be manually moving it on to the nextsong. > Maybe get rid of the stop when done - probably not exact wording but i'm not > looking at it at the moment. > > -- > 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 9, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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? I wrote the name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I >>>> missing? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> Lorie >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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