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How To Make A M3U File

An M3U file is a plain text file that contains a list of file paths or URLs pointing to multimedia files, allowing multiple files to be played in a playlist. It supports both local file paths and online URLs. The file uses the .m3u or .m3u8 extension and each entry is on a new line, with optional comments prefixed by #. M3U files are supported by many media players and can be used to easily share playlists between users.

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How To Make A M3U File

An M3U file is a plain text file that contains a list of file paths or URLs pointing to multimedia files, allowing multiple files to be played in a playlist. It supports both local file paths and online URLs. The file uses the .m3u or .m3u8 extension and each entry is on a new line, with optional comments prefixed by #. M3U files are supported by many media players and can be used to easily share playlists between users.

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A M3U music file is really like a link that can be played by Windows Media Player.

This is a tutorial on how to create m3u files in Notepad. (Yes, I said Notepad.
m3u music files are TEXT.)

Wikipedia wrote:
M3U (MPEG Version 3.0 URL [1]) is a computer file format that stores multimedia
playlists. It was originally implemented in Winamp, although it is now supported
by many applications, including VLC media player, XMMS, foobar2000, JuK, Real
Player, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Yahoo! Music Engine, JetAudio, and
Playstation Portable.

An M3U file is a plain text file that contains the locations of one or more media
files that the mediaplayer should play. Each location is placed on a new line. The
locations can be either absolute or relative local pathnames (e.g., "C:\My
Music\Chanson.mp3" or "Chanson.mp3") or they can be URLs. The file can also
include comments, prefaced by the "#" character. In extended M3U, "#" also
introduces extended M3U directives.

One common use of the M3U file format is creating a playlist file that contains a
single entry pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy
access to that stream and can be used for things like downloading from a website
or for emailing, or for Internet radio listening.

The file is saved with the "M3U" or "m3u" filename extension.

Ok. On to the format. As the Wiki quote says, the link to the music file can be
either online(WWW) or offline (C:/)

Here is the basic format. Song is the song name. The song in the example is on
your C drive.

Code:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:153,Artist - Song
C:\Song.mp3

As you can see, very simple--yet very powerful. You can distribute your music
easily by giving people m3u files, yet they do not have your music (often on a FTP
server or such) to edit, etc. They also do not have to download the music
outright, only later.

Note: C:\Song.mp3 can be http://www.nystic.com/song.mp3, etc.

Anyway, that is how you create m3u files. Very simple, very useful.

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