It doesnāt have a dedicated ānext fileā button like mpc-hc but itās scriptable, so I added a simple one-liner so that shift+right or shift+left open the next or previous files in the folder, works great :)
On the rant subject, Iām with you. I had the exact same journey on my path to find an mpc-hc replacement. Itās fine for the VLC devs to not accept a request, theyāre doing all the work after all. But itās wild that they dismiss it completely and say there is āno use caseā and you should just āmake a playlistā
The very fact that lots of people are asking for it is clear evidence that there IS a use-case thatās not covered by existing functionality, or people wouldnāt be asking!
You donāt sit down at the PC and think āOkay Iām going to watch a few episodes, letās create a playlist!ā No - you sit down, double click a file, watch it, and then as the credits roll you think āI want to watch anotherā
Every streaming service on the planet figured out this is how people want to watch, not to exit back out and go to the menu (or in the OS case the folder) to find the next one.
Itās only the difference of a few seconds, but when youāre accustomed to having that functionality, itās painful when itās missing.
āI wrote a script to handle loading videos because nothing already existed with a good UI and the devs of the biggest project in the space insist their way is better than 20 years of their users requesting another wayā is the most Linux thing Iāve ever heard of.
There is a kinda kludge of a workaround with a plugin, but then thereās no way to get plugins to auto-load whenever a video is first loaded, so you still have to go through the menus to create āautomaticā folder playlist. And thatās nearly the same amount of friction as making a playlist.
On Linux I use mpv.
Also switched to it as my player of choice on Mac (and Windows too, when I was still using Windows)
https://mpv.io/
It doesnāt have a dedicated ānext fileā button like mpc-hc but itās scriptable, so I added a simple one-liner so that shift+right or shift+left open the next or previous files in the folder, works great :)
On the rant subject, Iām with you. I had the exact same journey on my path to find an mpc-hc replacement. Itās fine for the VLC devs to not accept a request, theyāre doing all the work after all. But itās wild that they dismiss it completely and say there is āno use caseā and you should just āmake a playlistā
The very fact that lots of people are asking for it is clear evidence that there IS a use-case thatās not covered by existing functionality, or people wouldnāt be asking!
You donāt sit down at the PC and think āOkay Iām going to watch a few episodes, letās create a playlist!ā No - you sit down, double click a file, watch it, and then as the credits roll you think āI want to watch anotherā
Every streaming service on the planet figured out this is how people want to watch, not to exit back out and go to the menu (or in the OS case the folder) to find the next one.
Itās only the difference of a few seconds, but when youāre accustomed to having that functionality, itās painful when itās missing.
āI wrote a script to handle loading videos because nothing already existed with a good UI and the devs of the biggest project in the space insist their way is better than 20 years of their users requesting another wayā is the most Linux thing Iāve ever heard of.
I donāt mean this in a good way.
Thatās honestly probably the play.
There is a kinda kludge of a workaround with a plugin, but then thereās no way to get plugins to auto-load whenever a video is first loaded, so you still have to go through the menus to create āautomaticā folder playlist. And thatās nearly the same amount of friction as making a playlist.