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There didn’t seem to be an easy way to get the now playing info from VLC when using OBS so heres a thing for ppl who dont wanna install another music player.

In VLC. View -> Add Interface -> Web.

http://pastebin.com/ubyMkhnf

Paste the above code into text file and name it .vbs
Run it and it will create a text file that will keep updated with whatever is being played in VLC. If you want to stop the script kill the wscript.exe process in taskmanager.

I love you so much for writing that script, it works like a charm.

http://pastebin.com/PL6HXLgD

Updated for the newer versions of VLC which forces authentication on the web interface.

In VLC:
Tools -> Preferences -> All -> Main interfaces
Tick the Web box and under the Lua tab set password to “password”

If you want to choose your own password you can use http://www.base64encode.org/ just stick a semi colon in front of whatever password you have chosen, encode it and paste it into the script.