can you tell me where those energy saver settings are? are they in VLC or somewhere else? > On Jan 10, 2015, at 12:37 AM, David Griffith <daj.griff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? 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. >> 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.
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