You want to save it as an extended m3u fall; it should end in .m3u. At least that's how I always save them.
-- 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 11:27 PM, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: ok. sorry. I just saw this. I did have it set on random. I’ll try opening it from the already created playlist and see if that helps any. there were several different ways to save it. I hope I picked the right one. lol. > On Jan 9, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hey, that's great! congrats on getting the commands in and working! > > Hmmm, I have a lot of large folders within other folders and it doesn't stop > between songs for me so I'm not sure what the problem might be. It also > shouldn't get stuck in one album though it will play things in order so > everything in one album will be played before it moves on to another album. I > don't know if it might quit pausing between songs if you go ahead with making > it an actual playlist and then open from the playlist file instead of running > directly from terminal but you might try that. If what you are wanting is > shuffling, I haven't done that but somebody else on the list may be able to > tell you whether or not this is possible. > > -- > 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 2:43 PM, 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? 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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