Open An App Multiple Times

While doing some video encoding for content creation, I wanted to compare different encoding qualities using VLC.

The problem? VLC on macOS only really supports playing 1 video at a time. Also, macOS doesn’t really allow you to open an app multiple times. It’s basically a singleton pattern 😅

While you can’t change VLC, you can at least work around the macOS enforcement. It’s builtin and not hacky.

$ open -na /Applications/VLC.app

That way you can open as many instances of an app as one wishes. Yay!