How to create M3U Playlist option

[Ashish Goenkar]

I was wondering if there is a way on how to create m3u playlist option in context menu of mp3 files and when you click it then the m3u file gets placed in the folder of MP3's automatically? Is there any DOS based script that can be able to do the same? I am using Windows XP with Service pack 3. Thanks for any comments.

[Viceman]

There are many free tools / softwares that are freely available online for example Foobar that can be used to create m3u playlists with. This is a well known Audio player. Though it doesn't have a fancy interface, it has a better quality than any other player, it also supports gapless playback, and plays practically any format. Download Foobar2000 0.9.6.9

[JAMES_911]

Run Mp3 Tag Assistant Professional or Music Tag Editor.


Add necessary MP3 files to the Selection List (these files will be added to M3U playlist). Read more...


Mark necessary items in the Selection List.

Hint: you can use the standard Windows keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+A, Shift or Ctrl with mouse click.

Hint: you can use a mode "Change all items" also; changes will be applied to all items if this mode is used.


After marking items in the Selection List, you can create M3U playlist for selected files. You should input M3U playlist name and change playlist parameters if it is necessary.

Hint: you can use Templates if you want to create a name of playlist (or path) automatically.


To create M3U playlist you should click on the "Generate!" button.

Source: assistanttools.com

[Team Leader]

This is pretty simple, just open Windows Media player then go to File>Save Playlist As....>and then select Simple Playlist - Mix Info Is Lost (.m3u). There is also a script to create .m3u playlists on the fly for mp3 dowloads.

#!/usr/bin/python

# Create an m3u playlist file on the fly
# Use the query string in the URI to create the file name in the playlist
# This python script's extension is .m3u instead of .py, to fool the browser into opening an MP3 player
# Despite its extension, the top line in this script makes it executable as a python script

# Davide Andrea, KGNU 2/24/06

import cgi

AudioPath = 'http://kgnu.net/audio/%s_%s.mp3'


def Main():
#------------------
# Main procedure
  print "Content-type: text\n"	               # Note that its not text/html, as it would be for a web page
  uriQuery = cgi.FieldStorage()                # Get the query string from the URI
  showCode = uriQuery.getfirst('show','')      # From it, get the show name
  recDate = uriQuery.getfirst('date','')       #  and the date
  filePath = (AudioPath % (showCode, recDate)) # Assemble the file name and path
  print filePath                               # This is the content of the "file" served, that the MP3 player will see


#------------------
# Main
Main()					# Do the main procedure

More information here.