applescript to play videos in vlc
Hello I am trying to run an applescript that will launch VLC media player and play all the files in a folder whenever a new file is added. It seemed to work fine initially then I restarted my computer and not it wont run. I am running the script as a folder Action. please see attached script. What am I missing?
on adding folder items to theAttachedFolder after receiving theNewItems
-- Get the name of the attached folder
-- Get List of files in folder
set the_files to get every file of theAttachedFolder
-- open vlc using files in folder which should result in a vlc playlist
of all files in folder
tell application "Finder" to open {the_files} using application
file "VLC.app"
end adding folder items to
Any help will be greatly appreciated, I'm pretty new to this. Thank you.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "VLC"
set thePlaylist to "file:///Users/Smokestack/Desktop/For Vlc" -- substitute with your own actual folder path to the folder action folder following the format “file:///“
OpenURL thePlaylist
end tell
end adding folder items to