I cannot import m3u playlists

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 😉

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

Nearly all of my m3u are created with winamp. I wonder why they are not in the right spec.

But copy the m3u to H:\ and then drag to the script works perfect.

Thanks a lot!

No need for hurry, take the time you need for a new version.

ralvi

Importing Playlists from Winamp (mp3): The key is m3u8. Below is what worked for me.

From Winamp:

Export Playlist to a folder, when asked to rename it, do so and SAVE AS m3u8 (on the arrow options just below where you named the playlist)

Into iTune Software:

Music (top left column); Library, Import Playlist, Browse to the folder you made above to hold playlists; Click and there it is (on the iTune Software)

Into iPod:

From the left column drag the playlist upto your iPod. Presto, all is happy.

I did over 30 playlist in an hour.

That worked for me. I store my music at D:\Data\Music so I had every \Data replaced with D:\Data and iTunes loaded the file 😉 Thank you! It was a big problem for me as I have lots of music using Unicode and it made the biggest problem.

I'm running itunes 10.6.1.7. Has anyone else come up with a fix for this for the kind of user that has not idea how to "run a script?" I tried importing the playlists from all three formats in which winamp lets one save them. none have worked. the playlist name comes over to itunes but none of the tracks within the playlist.

boss2909: You can do it without scripts. You need to open the m3u playlist in notepad, then do a find and replace all for:

\Users to C:/Users

AND

\ to /

The scripts just do all that for you in one step instead of you having to do it yourself in multiple steps.

check this site out listfix.sourceforge.net and download list fix. What listfix does is it fixes broken M3U files and pairs the music files to the playlist wherever they are located. In the new itunes you can simply drag and drop your m3u file into the library. The music that is related to your playlist has to be in the itunes library in order for this to be successful. I just finished moving one of my playlist to itunes after using my listfix and it worked like a charm! Good Luck!!!

I think we all need to report it, then. We shouldn't be forced to waste our time with workarounds for this new issue, just because our preferred music player isn't iTunes.

I agree with scarlet23. Prior to the version 10.4, it was working flawlessly and importing m3u into iTunes was a piece of cake.