I cannot import m3u playlists

I agree with you entirely: requiring users to rewrite all of their playlists is not acceptable and needs to be fixed.

I'm an avid Linux user, and since I need to convert from Linux to Windoze anyways, it was easy for me to change my script to have all 60 files start with the file://localhost/... stuff. So, as a test, that's what I did.

Without re-explaining the whole thing again, I was trying to say that I ended up with an empty iTunes playlist even though the M3U playlist was accepted. My tip is: if you're trying to get iTunes to read your (modified) M3U's and you end up with an empty playlist: that may be because iTunes already 'knows' that playlist.

I do not have WinAmp installed, but I did notice that Windoze Media Player accepts the file://localhost/... format as well. Maybe, for the time being, conversion isn't totally bad. Consider using Notepad+ (an open source editor that will allow you to search and replace all of your 30 playlists in one go).

12 okt. 2012

Itunes 10.5 fixed this bug....now we are all happy like a dog with 7 d....

I've upgraded an hour ago to 10.5 and the bug is still there. I'm still getting an empty playlist when importing a winamp playlist... %^%$^^%&%^& 😠

I reverted back to iTunes 10.3.1.55 by using my trusty Ghost image 😉

hmm. Its working perfectly for me (Win7) - at last!

Not in Windows XP SP3...

XP SP3 not working in 10.5.

It's a shame for apple not fixing this issue.

At the moment I make two playlist. One for winamp and one for iTunes.

Also Mediamonkey doesn't work together with iTunes 10.5.

M3U import appears to be fixed in iTunes 10.5 as far as I can see, but anyone still having problems under Windows can try my script ImportM3U.

tt2

Thanks for your scripts. It seems that there will be a lot of usefull tools.

But sorry, your script doesn't work on my Vista notebook. **** Vista.

I will give it a try later on my desktop with XP.

Bah! Vista is like the thing one does with boiled sweets. Turning off UAC would probably fix it. I'll test it out on a Windows 7 box at some point later...

tt2

Not UAC for once. I realised I'd only tested the script on playlists exported from iTunes which have absolute file paths. I've updated it to cope with relative links which I'd hazard a guess is the reason it wasn't working for you, particularly since you didn't mention any error messages.

tt2

I have been messing around for hours to get my M3U winamp playlists into itunes and eventually stumbled upon a remedy which helped me. I have itunes set to manually manage music to my ipod.

I right clicked on my M3U Winamp playlist and set it to open with Itunes - the playlist opened in itunes playlists without crashing and I simply dragged the playlist to my device and it synced all the songs over including all the artwork etc.

I have just done this on 8 folders of playlists on Windows 7 using the very latest Itunes 10.5.0.142 without issue.

I hope this helps a few people as I was about to throw the towel in

ps My device is an Ipod Touch 4

All the best !!!

@tt2

Sorry, but your script doesn't work for me. Even on my old XP it says:

"0 items were imported into the playlist "......:", xx bad entries were ignored."

Just one more thing. UAC is the first thing I switch off on every Vista I worked with.

OK, I've updated the script so that it reports the path of the file it can't find - hopefully there is some obvious discrepancy that will become apparent.

If the m3u file has absolute paths then have you moved the library? Has the library been restructured? Or, in the case of relative paths, have you moved the playlist to a new location before attempting to import it?

Just look at the first entry that gets reported and compare it with the true location of the file. It should be easy enough to put a "correction factor" into the script.

tt2

The report helps a lot and now I think we got it.

My multimedia files are stored in different folders on drive H:\.

My playlists are in H:\Musik\Playlists.

Here is an example on the first three rows of an new playlist:

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:221,aaa-bbb

\Musik\Top100\2011\aaa-bbb.mp3

Your script report:

Cannot find a file to import at:

H:\Musik\Playlists\Musik\Top100\2011\aaa-bbb.mp3

The first \Musik\Playlists is wrong.

I'm sure you can correct this.

ralvi

Ah, I see, your paths are relative from the root of the current drive. The M3U spec. I was reading talks about absolute paths and paths relative to the folder in which the playlist is. I can add another tweak to match your scenario, but I won't be able to do so for an hour or so. In the meantime if you place the playlist in H:\ and then drag it onto the script it would work.

tt2