Furthermore, changing an item in one mode can cause changes to occur to seemingly unrelated items present the other, unseen mode-again, without warning.Īlso, as far as I know (unless a recent nightly build has re-enabled the option), skins aren't customizable in MacOS and haven't been for years. Plus, annoyingly enough, the prefs window closes when you do save your changes, and re-opening it always opens in Basic mode. Otherwise, your changes won't be retained-and there's no warning this is the case. I'll alert you to a potential hazard: It's mandatory to save any changes you make to VLC's prefs before moving from one preference area to another, much less between Basic and Show All modes. window will enable a great deal of additional customization, but it's challenging to anticipate or even recall which features are available in Basic, Show All, or both modes. Clicking the Show All button which appears at the lower-left corner of the Preferences. You can add (but not change the positions of) some media play buttons like Previous, Next and Show Equalizer to the interface toolbar using Preferences.