I cannot import m3u playlists

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

Strike!

You made it.

Works like a charm, even in BAH Vista.

ralvi

Great 🙂

tt2

I've developed an alternative workaround to the problem with Winamp playlists for the script-averse:

• Install Notepad++
• Drag & drop or otherwise open the playlist with Notepad++
• Select Search... Replace... choose the extended search option and replace\n\ with \n<Media Drive Letter>:\ e.g. \nC:\ if your media is on C:
• Use the menu option Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM
• Save
• Import the playlist into iTunes

See this thread for the background...

tt2

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.

so if i do that, itunes will be able to properly do the import?

Bingo! That worked perfectly. Thanks for the tutorial!

Yes. Previous posts in this thread describe this in more detail.

In an emergency situation, VLC software can be used to import the m3u.

This will not get the playlist into itunes, but you can see the playlist order and use it to rebuild the playlist in itunes.

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!!!