Exporting playlists in iTunes

Got a new iMac, downloaded Yosemite, used Migration Assistant to transfer data from my old computer twice, but it did not transfer all my iTunes playlists to my new computer. Any idea how I can do this?

.m3u8 should be the same as .m3u but with slightly different handling of Unicode characters that fall outside of the standard set of ASCII symbols. iTunes can import and export all three formats but .m3u is probably the one your car stereo will be looking for. iTunes will export a playlist with absolute file paths for each track however for your purpose what you probably need is all of the tracks placed in the root of the drive and to edit the .m3u file to exclude all but the filename so that a relative link from the same folder as the .m3u identifies the file.
I wrote a Windows only script for this task a while back, as discussed here: Re: Copying playlist to USB ?
This might also be useful: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/m3unify.php
tt2

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    I wrote a Windows only script for this task a while back, as discussed here: Re: Copying playlist to USB ?
    This might also be useful: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/m3unify.php
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