Importing multiple m3u playlists and automatic adding

I just bought a new ipod so i'm trying to get my media player library to itunes. I create a lot of playlist, all in m3u format and i want them to be compatible with itunes. The only thing I managed to do is to import 1 playlist at a time, selecting them all doesn't work. Moving them from explorer to itunes doesn't work either.
is there a way to get all my playlists in Itunes in 1 go? Also is there some sort of 'watch folder' option that automaticly adds new playlists? As a die hard WMP user I kind of assumed that this was standard..

A playlist is simply a list of songs.
In order for iTunes to put a song on a playlist, it must be in the library.
I don't quite understand what you mean. But iTunes does put the songs in an imported m3u playlist in the library and create an iTunes playlist. The problem is that there is no way to import multiple m3u playlists at the same time while keeping the lists separeate. Right now, it merges the lists into one.

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Importing multiple m3u playlists to iTunes

Hi,
I just downloaded the new iTunes 7. I was hoping that now I can import multiple m3u playlists to iTunes. I have a big collection of mp3 and m3u files and the lack of a way to import the playlists makes iTunes pretty much unusable and the prospect of buying an iPod remote.
The Import dialog allows me to choose only one file. If I drag and drop more than one m3u files to iTunes, it just merges the playlists into one (this is a VERY stupid design if you ask me.)
I am dissapointed that it seems this is unchanged in the new version.
Please someone tell me that there's a way to do this.
Windows XP

A playlist is simply a list of songs.
In order for iTunes to put a song on a playlist, it must be in the library.
I don't quite understand what you mean. But iTunes does put the songs in an imported m3u playlist in the library and create an iTunes playlist. The problem is that there is no way to import multiple m3u playlists at the same time while keeping the lists separeate. Right now, it merges the lists into one.

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mltwitz wrote:
I imported all of my PC-based .m3u playlists into the MediaSource Organizer. The playlist names now appear under "My Playlists" in the Organizer, but I can't import them into the player! When I double click an imported playlist nothing happens and when I trie to drag and drop them to the player's playlist folder it freezes up for 30 seconds but nothing happens.
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is there any way to add multiple .m3u files to itunes library so they result in multiplay playlist instead of a big playlist? thanks

I haven't done it, but the approach to try would be to CTRL-click them, so that multiple of them are highlighted, and them drag them to the word PLAYLISTS. Try it with two and see if it works before you do it with more.

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hello!
I've managed to get automator to retrieve (and save to hdd) an .m3u playlist from a radio's website that broadcasts a program I like in mp3.
inside this m3u playlist is the link an actual mp3... both the m3u and the mp3 change every week.
If I drag the m3u to TextEdit it opens up and I can see the 3 lines of "source code" of which the last line is the full url of the mp3 file (http://www.thatradiosurl.com/audio/shownumber.mp3)
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Hi!
You might have seen this post in the Automator part
of the forum... but I might have posted it in the
wrong place (got no interest:( )
I've managed to get automator to retrieve (and save
to hdd) an .m3u playlist from a radio's website that
broadcasts a program I like in mp3.
inside this m3u playlist is the link to an actual mp3
file... both the m3u and the mp3 change every week.
If I drag the m3u to TextEdit it opens up and I can
see the 3 lines of "source code" of which the last
line is the full url of the mp3 file (http://www
.thatradiosurl.com/audio/show-shownumber.mp3)
You already got the playlist into a text file, you have two options:
1. use Automator's 'Get Link URLs from Webpages' action to extract the URL. 'Get Link URLs from Webpages' is under Safari lib.
2. run Automator Python script from 'Get Link URLs from Webpages' in AppleScript. The script below with get your mp3 URLs:
set playlist_file to "/path/to/playlist/file.txt" -- change to your actual playlist file path
set _URLs to do shell script "/System/Library/Automator/Get\\ Link\\ URLs\\ from\\ Webpages.action/Contents/Resources/links file://" & quoted form of playlist_file
set mp3_URLs to ""
repeat with _URL in paragraphs of _URLs
if _URL contains ".mp3" then set mp3_URLs to mp3_URLs & _URL & (ASCII character 10)
end repeat
mp3_URLs is the list you want you extract.

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I have exported my ipod play lists in "m3u" format.
How do I import them back?
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I found the answer to this, but not on these forums. I found it somewher eout there in intenet-land.
I can now import M3U files. The way to do this is to not 'import' them, nor 'add' the mto your library from within iTunes. The way to do it is to bring u pthe finder and drag the M3U file into the 'playlists' section of the iTunes GUI.
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How can I import an m3u playlist into iTunes that intentionally contains duplicate tracks? I want the duplicates in this case.

For instance, if my M3u file looks like the 2 lines below, only one copy of the mp3 file is imported. I'd like the same track to be imported twice.
Back To Black.mp3
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btw, the reason I'd like this to work is that I use a separater track in playlists between groups of similar tracks. This separater is not being imported correctly as is being unhelpfully recognised as an unwanted duplicate.
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I just did the following.
Created a m3u file with a series of tracks with one entry duplicated.
Made a new empty playlist in a test iTunes library which did not contain the files and dragged the m3u file to that playlist.
It created a duplicate playlist entry for that one duplicated track but of course it points to the same file. If you really want iTunes to duplicate the file you will have to trick it into thinking it is a different file. Using your library management preferences (which are identical to mine) you will have to duplicate the file in Finder so you really do have two files and add it again. Perhaps if iTunes was managing the media it would not behave that way and might add the file twice since dragging to iTunes with default preferences settings just places a copy on the iTunes folder and leaves the original in place, so you'd be dong hte equivalent of dragging twice (I'd have to test to check this since I don't use default settings either). With your settings it just refers to the original wherever it is. Hopefully I've phrased that well enough.

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How do i stop Itunes auto creating playlists and auto playing imports?

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I'm struggling with this problem as well. The "file://locahost/m:" prefix works for me. (All my music is on Linux machines and is made available by Samba to my last Windoze PC (which I must keep for iTunes).)
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Hi Pieter,
I am sorry for delay in response.
As the issue occurs randomly and cannot always be reproduced, I would like to explain that we may take a long time to troubleshoot and narrow down the issue.
I think the issue can be caused by two factors:
1. The Outlook add the specific recipient to To/CC list when submit the message to Exchange Server
2. The Exchange server add the specific recipient to To/CC list when process the message.
As when the issue occurs, the specific recipient can be located in the message in the Send Items folder of the sender. I suspect the issue may related to Outlook Client. I suggest we attempt the following steps on a problem sender client which the issue occurs mostly frequently to troubleshoot the issue:
Step 1: Disable Outlook 2003 third-party Add-ins
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1. Launch Outlook application.
2. Click Tools --> Options, click Other tab.
3. Click Advanced Options.
4. Click COM Add-Ins button.
5. Uncheck All Add-ins.
6. Backup these registry entries and then delete them one by one.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Extensions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Addins
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Extensions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Addins
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Step 2: Clear corrupted Rules by using MFCMapi tool:
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You can refer to following article:
How to delete corrupted and hidden rules from a single mailbox in Outlook 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924297/en-us
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3) Run Process Explorer as administrator, accepted license.
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In addition, please enable message tracking on the exchange server (I assume that you have only one Exchange server in the environment).
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PS: Would you please let me know how often the issue occurs normally?

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