Playing a playlist with an intent (from tasker) disables shuffle mode, starts playlist from same song

Description

This is perhapes related to another issue I am having, but this time rather then using a shortcut I am using an intent. When I send an intent using tasker like so:

action: android.media.action.MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH 
category: DEFAULT 
extra: android.intent.extra.focus:Audio.Playlists 
extra: query:MyWeirdPlayListNamez 
package: org.videolan.vlc
target: Activity 

The playlist always starts from the same song, and it disables shuffle altogether. That is to say, the orange double crossed arrows at the bottom of the UI go from being orange to greyed out.

Expected behavior

What I want to happen is that when the task executes for the relevent playlist, a random song is played from the playlist.

Actual behavior

playlist starts with the same song always, but and shuffle is disabled.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create send intent task in tasker with values set as above
2. Launch task

Context

Details obfuscated for privacy

App version

3.5.xxx

Android version

10+

Device model

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App mode

Smartphone

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