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VLC Media Player – Create and Save Playlist

How to create and save playlist on VLC Media Player in order to be able to play audio or video based on your preference and saving
A Playlist is a list of audio or video files which can be played sequentially or in a shuffle. They are a group of selected audio or video by a user.
VLC media player can be used to create and save playlist, although other audio or video players can perform this task or function.

How to create and save playlist on VLC Media Player (PC and Mac)

1) Launch the VLC Media Player.
2) Press Ctrl + L on your keyboard to go to VLC Media Player Playlist OR Click on View and Select Playlist
VLC Playlist Window
3) Go to the location of the Audio or Video files, drag and drop on the Window OR on the left pane go the location of the audio or file files and select the folder.
VLC Drag and drop Playlist
NOTE: Remember that you can drag and drop any audio or video file from any location and from more than one location.
4) After selecting that is, after dragging and dropping or loading all the audio and video, you want in the playlist.
5) Press Ctrl + A on your keyboard to select all the audio or video files, then Right Click on the selected audio or video file and then click on Save Playlist to File

OR

Right Click on the the Playlist window without selecting the file and click on Save Playlist to File.
Saving Playlist on VLC
6) A window will appear, Save Playlist
VLC Save a Playlist
7) Go the location where You want to save the Playlist, Enter the playlist name, the select the format (default is XSPF playlist, but you could also select either M3U, M3U8 or HTML playlist as Your default format, then click on Save.
8) Thus, You have created and saved a playlist Using VLC Media Player.
9) To launch and listen or watch the playlist, Close the VLC Media Player, Go to the location where the playlist is saved, launch the playlist, and it will begin to play.

How to create and save playlist on VLC Media Player (Android)

1)   Launch VLC android app. (it will search for all audio and video files on your device).VLC Android Menu
2)  Press on the menu and go to Audio, select, press “Add to Playlist”.VLC Android Add to Playlist
3) A window will open, enter the name you want to call the playlist and press or touch OK.VLC Android Playlist Name
4) You can go to playlist to check the created playlist.
Hope with this, You have been able to create and save playlist using the VLC Media Player.
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  1. James M Grisby says

    August 16, 2021 at 7:19 am

    Can I rename a playlist in VCL for Android?
    I have created a number of playlists so that when i tap Add to Playlist not all playlists are visible, the popup keypad covers the list and I can’t scroll down – if I just type the name of the playlist it creates a second one with the same name,
    can you help me, please
    https://jamesmgrisby.mystrikingly.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-ship-a-bike

    Reply
  2. Bernard Damian says

    June 21, 2021 at 4:43 am

    I really thank you that your information help me a lot. I search many site to know about create and save playlist on VLC Media Player but I didn’t get the information I needed. I saw your site and I read it.
    I got some new information from here. I think some of your tips can be applied to those too! Thank you so very much for such informative and useful content. You may like this post on Fix VLC No Valid Processing Key Found in AACS Config File

    Reply
    • Timothy says

      June 21, 2021 at 8:59 pm

      Thanks for the great input.

      Reply
  3. CB says

    September 8, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    I have put in a lot of time making playlists, but they keep on getting erased for reasons I do not understand. If I could save the playlist to a backup file and reinstall the backup each time Android erases it would be helpful.
    Thank you for a fantastic app. CBjazz

    Reply
    • Tim says

      September 10, 2020 at 4:41 pm

      Please are you sure the problem might not be from your storage media?

      Reply
  4. Spaceman Spiff says

    January 26, 2020 at 7:21 am

    I would love to be able to create playlists on my PC and then transfer them to my phone.

    Playlists for me tend to be over 100 songs, so fingering through them is unrealistic.

    One way this could be possible is for VLC to make mp3 files saved on phones so that they can be dropped into the PC Player. Thus, when the playlist is made, it links to the files on the phone. So long as you made the playlist files compatible with the android version, you could drag and drop the files into the playlist folder (…Android\data\org.videolan.vlc\files\medialib\playlists) (I’m assuming this is the appropriate folder?

    Unless this is somehow possible? Cause I am literally going through app after app trying to find one that does this.

    Reply
    • Tim says

      January 27, 2020 at 11:54 am

      Yes,
      The problem with this is due to location problem,
      Android and PC have different location format. Thanks
      But will check out to see

      Reply
      • Spaceman Spiff says

        January 28, 2020 at 11:59 pm

        Rereading my post, I am not sure I was clear, though I think you got what I was saying. Just to be safe ’cause, damn, I want my friggen playlists and I hate Apple:

        I was saying that the obvious problem is that the paths for files on the phone are not the same as paths on the computer. The solution I am suggesting is that you could create a setting which lets the program know which library they want to reference before the user starts working on the library/playlist: the one on the phone or the one on the computer. This would allow the user to work on playlists on their computer which are for their phone.

        Just fyi, that’s totally, literally, a million dollar idea ’cause, while perusing the various app forums looking for someone who does it, I found a lot of people asking for it and not a single app that does. Stick to the man and make sure you copy-left it when you get the code going. Shouldn’t be too hard.

        Stay awesome VLC.

        Reply
  5. Dieter says

    September 26, 2019 at 4:40 pm

    Topic: How to create and save playlist on VLC Media Player (Android)
    The explanation for adding a single audio file to a VLC playlist (Android) is obvious and straight forward.
    However the suggested procedure is not useful when you have MANY (small) MP3 files and you want them to be put into a playlist in ascending order (with respect to filenames).
    I wrote a bash script which does the job and transferred the M3U8 file to the SD card (volume name: “1234-5678”) of my mobile phone.
    The entries have the form:
    #EXTM3U
    #EXTINF:5121,Text,more text
    /storage/1234-5678/path-to-MP3-file.mp3
    When opening the file /storage/1234-5678/path-to-MP3-file.mp3, VLC complains that the requested file
    “Location fd://59/storage/1234-5678/…” does not exist.
    Questions:
    1. Why does VLC add “fd://59″ before the file name”?
    2. Is there a program / script to create VLC playlists thus avoiding manual intervention?
    3. Does anybody know a open source media player which accepts playlists created in the way described above?
    4. What is the layout / format of VLC playlist for Android devices?
    Any hints appreciated!
    Regards
    Dieter

    Reply
  6. Dee Hasson says

    September 24, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    can I rename a playlist in VCL for Android?
    I have created a number of playlists so that when i tap Add to Playlist not all playlists are visible, the popup keypad covers the list and I can’t scroll down – if I just type the name of the playlist it creates a second one with the same name,
    can you help me please

    Reply
    • Tim says

      September 25, 2019 at 5:17 am

      Yes, Playlist can be renamed

      Reply
  7. Allan says

    March 12, 2019 at 12:15 am

    All sounds good, but in Samsung A5 “Audio” does not show on the line as Artists, Albums…
    Personally I suspect it is Samsung trying to divert users to Vodaphone…

    Reply
  8. PIERRE-OLIVIER MAILLIARD says

    August 10, 2018 at 6:06 am

    honestly i like this software, but play list shit, is really shit. impossible to find how with only 3 buttons

    Reply
  9. Liz Cunningham says

    June 28, 2018 at 9:04 pm

    If I create a playlist and save it to an external drive, is there a way to play it on another computer with that same external drive?

    Reply
    • Tim says

      June 28, 2018 at 9:05 pm

      If the songs are on the external disk, the songs will play.

      Reply
  10. Alan says

    March 13, 2018 at 4:32 am

    I installed the VLC app on my phone and it was able to access the music I have on my sd card that I’ve added to my phone and, after much experimentation and head scratching, I am finally able to create a playlist of different songs by going to each one and selecting, “Add to Playlist”.
    However, I found that if I try to create a second playlist and start adding songs to it, all of the songs on the first playlist simply disappear! Apparently it won’t allow more than one playlist. I just don’t get it. Unfortunately, there is no android or google app for either Windows Media Player or Sony Media Go that can be added to either a Chromebook or Android phone.
    I find both Windows Media Player and Sony media Go to be so much simpler to use when putting a playlist together and they both allow you to create playlists, even when some of the same songs are used or a song is included more than once in the same playlist, and all this without messing up or deleting anything from previously created playlists. If either one comes out with an app for Chromebook or Android, I’ll certainly add them to my devices.

    Reply
    • Tim says

      March 13, 2018 at 8:15 am

      Please I will be updating the tutorial to teach on how to create playlist on VLC android version, this is for the windows OS version (PC).

      Reply
      • Peggy says

        April 20, 2018 at 9:04 pm

        Yes, I need to know how to copy a video so that it actually stays in the video tab. Now it will play it, but I cannot figure out how to save it for viewing later in the newest version for an android tablet.

        Reply
        • Tim says

          April 21, 2018 at 11:20 am

          Please I do not understand the question.
          But a Video cannot be added to a playlist, only audio files can be added to a VLC Media Player Playlist.

          Reply
  11. IMTanuki says

    November 29, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    It seems counter productive to save a playlist and then to have to invoke it from outside VLC.
    What’s needed is a function to:
    – Save playlists from within VLC to a default directory that can be specified in preferences.
    – Display a list of all playlists within VLC.
    – Select and play.
    This is standard on any media player…even WMP has had this forever…

    Reply
    • Tim says

      November 30, 2017 at 1:22 pm

      Yes you can save it, all you have to do is launch to access all the content of the playlist

      Reply
  12. Dissapointed says

    August 28, 2017 at 6:58 am

    Sorry, this does not work on the latest version of VLC 2.2.6. player, after creating the playlist and ‘ctrl-clicking’/right clicking to get save options – no save options appear.
    The options that come up are: Play, Delete, Select all, Expand Node, Sort Node by Name, Autor, Media information, Preparse, Download cover art, Reveal in Finder.
    The End. No Save to Playlist.

    Reply
    • Dissapointed says

      August 28, 2017 at 7:01 am

      All has dissappeared but good old shortcut Ctrl-S did work in the Playlist window after creating the playlist.

      Reply
    • Tim says

      August 29, 2017 at 12:37 am

      Please which OS are you using, because it is present on Windows OS, you will “save playlist to File”, clicking on save playlist to File will ask you for the location you want to save the playlist and then it can be saved. Thanks

      Reply

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