VLC trick for those who are overwhelmed by fields and for playlist micromanagement

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#1

Hello!

I have recently discovered a way to only play a section of the field in vlc before moving on to the next field

Steps.

  1. make a playlist in vlc
  2. Save it as .m3u
  3. Open the .m3u with any text editor
  4. Add these 2 lines before any field for which you want a custom duration
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=0
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=10
  1. Change the stop time to your liking. They are in seconds so 600 seconds for 10 minutes 900 for 15m
  2. Save the file after modifying it.
    Now when you launch the playlist it should work

Here’s an example of a .m3u file. The first audio will play for 11 seconds, the second 12 seconds, the third 13 seconds

#EXTM3U
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=0
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=11
#EXTINF:159,Sapien Medicine - Enpp6 Enzyme
Enpp6%20Enzyme.mp3
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=0
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=12
#EXTINF:159,Sapien Medicine - Enpp6 Enzyme
Enpp6%20Enzyme.mp3
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=0
#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=13
#EXTINF:159,Sapien Medicine - Enpp6 Enzyme
Enpp6%20Enzyme.mp3

To my knowledge this is only doable on pc, I only tried it on windows, I can edit this post if any Mac/Linux user tells me it works or not

Will update this post if I see anything for phones

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#2

Users of time packing fields rejoiced :slightly_smiling_face:

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#3

Wow! Thank You Very Much for THIS VERY Useful Thread and Info! :pray:

Choosing how much time should be alloted to each field, especially when listening passively or sleeping, always seemed to be an issue (maybe a smaller one, since, for most fields it’s not a problem, but still; for those longer fields, it might be a problem, if you want to give/play 10 minutes for each/all fields, without being bothered to change the field every 10 minutes).

Edit: I can’t claim to fully get it, unless I see a video tutorial or images, at the very least. :video_camera::sweat_smile:

#4

So you can edit the playlist on PC. Do you happen to know if this edited playlist works on the phone app?

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#5

From what I have seen you can’t use .m3u formats on phone vlc. All of them are .xspf or whatever they are named.
I have yet to look on how to make it work with this extension.
They use xml so I believe it definitely should be possible, I just don’t have enough free time to look it up atm

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#6

i remember reading we have to listen to an audio for 10 minutes at a time before our subconcious really atunes itself to the audio for it to start working from there. Or does anyone know if thats not the case?

#7

It depends on the technique heavily, definitely not something to say about fields.

#8

Or you can trim the audio to the duration of your liking and use it. I’m doing it for some of the long ones.

#9

I can’t tell if running ffmpeg through a file would change it’s energetic content or not, so I opted to this non-invasive method