Hi, by using below command you can made VLC play the playlist, here in my case the PL tbbt-s6.xspf is placed on Desktop. Its actually The Big Bang Theory (TBBT) [email protected]:~$ /usr/bin/vlc –started-from-file /home/navdeep/Desktop/tbbt-s6.xspf VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80) [0000000002406148] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface.