music-player

A simple music player using python and vlc

Requirements

• Python 3.11 or higher (if running from source code)
• VLC Media Player installed on your system

Troubleshooting

When creating this app, i ran into the following errors (can only be seen from terminal output but will slowdown startup times by 3-5 seconds):

[000002b64bb7dd80] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins\access\libaccess_concat_plugin.dll
[000002b64bb7dd80] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins\access\libaccess_imem_plugin.dll
[000002b64bb7dd80] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins\access\libaccess_mms_plugin.dll
[000002b64bb7dd80] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins\access\libaccess_realrtsp_plugin.dll
[000002b64bb7dd80] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins\access\libaccess_srt_plugin.dll
[000002b64bb7dd80] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins\access\libaccess_wasapi_plugin.dll
[000002b64bb7dd80] main libvlc error: stale plugins cache: modified C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins\access\libattachment_plugin.dll
...

So the way i found to fix this was to run the following command in a admin terminal:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc-cache-gen.exe" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68246840/how-to-avoid-main-libvlc-error-when-using-the-python-vlc-package