Talk:M3U

message: This article speaks of Winamp, but Winamp isn't the only Media player that uses M3U files at all. I am wondering how this can be adjusted? Roddyboy 02:32, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems bit like an advertisement.  Apple iTunes, Microsoft Windows Media Player, WebTeh BSplayer Pro, JetAudio and I believe most PC-DVD players are capable of playing a .m3u file (I have about 6 different PC-DVD players but haven't tested all of them).   Dprabon 04:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  As it is stated *.m3u was originated by Winamp. It was subsequently used by other programs for playlisting. Therefore one cannot classify it as an advertisement for Winamp—Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.177.1.210 (talk) 18:30, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is not stated so. Check the references: they say "WinAmp (?)". Moreover I'm about to publish my own findings that prove the opposite. The name M3U is probably older than the name MP3.  Therefore perhaps one can classify it as an advertisement for WinAmp.—6birc (talk) 22:32, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

text: Cool.  Do we cite it as source and create a circular reference? —138.100.74.81 (talk) 17:17, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winamp 

message: The article asks for citation of the M3U8 file format. I am not sure what is a suitable source reference for this, but it is mentioned in the following pages:
* HTTP Streaming Architecture FAQ
* MP3 Playlist File (UTF-8)
There are also a number of discussion forums that make reference to it. The encoding of this 'unicode' version of M3U is UTF-8 without a Byte-order mark (BOM) from what I can see. There is no definitive page on the format but the convention appears to be accepted based on multiple sources (validate with a search engine). --AJ Mas (talk) 04:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  M3U8 

message: Will M3u have image links added? If so what is the code to add your own images?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.170.59.228 (talk) 02:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: M3u with album art/ image

message: Please tell me if I am making this comment in the right location, this is my first venture into wikipedia interaction (i.e. "long time listener, first time caller")
I find the "Linux" instructions in the "How To Create" section overly complex, and not so portable
The example combines invocation of 'find' and 'sed'
 find . -iname '*' -print | sed -n -E -e 's/.*mp3/&/p' -e 's/.*wav/&/p' -e 's/.*wma/&/p'
The 'find' command specifies to look in current directory, match all file name (ignoring case), and print the results all of those could be just satisfied with a simple 'find', with no parameters:
* If no "path" is given, the local directory is used
* -iname '*' just tells you to find all files, which is the default if you didn't specify any expression
* -print seems superfluous here as well, as 'find' will do that by default
Yes, my issues with the above "find" are somewhat nit-picky, my main beef is with the 'sed' portion:
* The "-E" option to sed is not portable (It is not my "Linux"'s sed, so the rest of my sed comments assume no '-E') ... I assume that it specifies extended regexp (which, as far as I can see, is not called-for in this command)
* The culmination of all the '-e' expressions seems to WANT to filter just the files with the right extensions, but it will in-fact match all files with these anywhere in the name (including "nicewaves.png" & "howto.mp3.txt").  Using a "$" at the end of the match would go a long way to remove the wrong files.
The safer, more portable alternative would be to use "find" the way it was intended, with expressions that actually do the work:
 find -iname '*.mp3' -o -iname '*.wav' -o -iname '*.wma'
Where we OR (-o) multiple case-insensitive matches on the file names.  Note that here the match syntax is a matching pattern and not a regexp, making this a bit more obvious to the novice
Please note that I am just commenting here on file-selection for playlists, not on the actual playlist syntax 
--Quarternose (talk) 13:47, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How To Create 

message: The examples of extended directives do not match the given syntax.
For example, EXTINF is defined here as:
#EXTINF - extra info - length (seconds), title
or
#EXTINF - extra info - length (seconds), artist '-' title
However, the examples are written as:
#EXTINF:123, Sample artist - Sample title
#EXTINF:321,Example Artist - Example title
etc.
In other words, while the syntax is written as using " - extra info - ", the examples use ":".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by G a adams (talk • contribs) 17:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Syntax and/or Examples 

message: nt - 75.161.78.59 (talk) 23:37, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: how do you create it with VLC?  • Sbmeirow • Talk • 07:40, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about ''#EXTVLCOPT'' that VLC seems to add? 

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