Upon launching the VLC player, you will notice that the interface at the bottom, displays its traditional look i.e., a classic block of buttons designed to control the Media stream Play/ Pause ...
Open VLC, and then click on Tools > Preferences (Ctrl + P) > Interfaces Then uncheck the box that says — Allow only one instance. Then click on the Save button. If you do not have this option ...
Once the app has loaded the first song (and it correctly loads the first one, unlike VLC that often and strangely loads the last one for me) you can’t see anything but the interface I mentioned above.