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VLC Media Player – Create and Save Playlist

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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. 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…

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

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  3. 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?

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  4. 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.

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    • 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).

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      • 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.

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        • 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.

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  5. 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…

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  6. 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.

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

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    • 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

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