Playlists in Windows Media Player

September 12, 2005 by Oliver
Filed under: Languages, PHP, Programming, Technology, Web Programming 

Windows Media Player will only play .m3u playlists two levels deep…

You can include a playlist inside another playlist and it copes fine. If you include a playlistsinside a playlist inside a playlist, the innermost one doesn’t get played.

Why do I tell you this? I decided to try and create a Pimsleur-style CD for Finnish. But to save on effort and increase modularity everything is done in bits and joined together with .m3u files. Since Windows Media Player can’t cope with the nesting though, I had to write a PHP to dump them all in one file (I’m expecting to hit a limit on the amount of songs in a playlist soon).

By the way a .m3u (playlist) is really complicated… it’s a list of URLs seperated by newlines…

music, Pimsleur, Finnish, Windows Media Player, playlists, m3u

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5 Comments on Playlists in Windows Media Player

  1. Stacey on Tue, 13th Sep 2005 1:11 am

    2. Get iTunes and save yourself a lot of trouble.

  2. Oliver on Wed, 14th Sep 2005 8:48 pm

    3. Unfortunately I can’t tell everyone visiting a page with the content on to get iTunes…

  3. Ryan on Thu, 15th Sep 2005 9:17 pm

    4. But iTunes doesn’t read .m3u files at all does it?

  4. Oliver on Thu, 15th Sep 2005 9:39 pm

    5. Dunno… Save a text file with a list of song files in with a .m3u extension and see if it will open it :)

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