VLC Media Player - Stopping it from reopening it's window after minimizing

Situation:

VLC plays the video I want, without issues, I minimize the video so I can focus on other things while listening to the audio. The video ends and when I press the multimedia key to play the video again, the VLC window opens up and gets on top of all the other windows as the video starts playing. Is there a way to prevent this behavior? I'd much rather just stay with the minimized icon on the systray on Windows 7 and only have the window open when I click it.

Note: the issue also happens when I stop the video with my multimedia keys and try to play it again, so I suspect is something that happens when the "Play" command is given.

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