M3u playlists in to iTunes. ...is it possible?

Is there a way to convert m3u playlists to iTunes playlists?
I DJ with a program called Traktor. One feature I use is it's ability to export a "history" file as an iTunes playlist. This means I can keep a log in iTunes of what I've played on specific nights.
I'm just trying out another DJing program by M-Audio called "Torq". This also creates history files, but they are in the "m3U" format.
So.... is it possible to get these m3u playlists in to iTunes?

I've just tried the "import" command from within iTunes.
This adds the playlist to iTunes, but the playlist then has nothing in it.
.....think I need to speak to the guys at M-Audio.

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Winamp m3u playlists imported into iTunes are empty

I've switched from Winamp (PC) to iTunes 9 for Mac. I'd like to import my old playlists, which are in m3u format. I select Library > Import Playlist, navigate to the desired playlist, and iTunes adds it, but when I click on it in iTunes there are no songs listed.
For example, here are the first five lines of a m3u playlist I'd like to import:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:139,Elliott Smith - Say Yes
\MP3\Artists\Alternative\Elliott Smith\Either_Or\Elliott SmithEither_Or_12Say Yes.mp3
#EXTINF:120,Neutral Milk Hotel - The King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1
\MP3\Artists\Alternative\Neutral Milk Hotel\In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea\Neutral Milk Hotel_In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea01The King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1.mp3
Once imported, I open "iTunes Music Library.xml" and the entry for the imported playlist is just this:
<dict>
<key>Name</key><string>Favorites</string…
<key>Playlist ID</key><integer>125770</integer>
<key>Playlist Persistent ID</key><string>8D0C647DF52FC8B8</string…
<key>All Items</key><true/>
</dict>
I thought this may be because the songs themselves are on an external drive, so I tried manually editing the paths in the m3u file, but none of the variations I've tried have made any difference.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Okay, I got this to work. Here's the format that did it:
/Volumes/Maxtor/MP3/Artists/Alternative/Elliott Smith/Either_Or/Elliott SmithEither_Or_12Say Yes.mp3
Notice that I had to switch from \ to /. I also had to include the /Volumes reference.
iTunes tolerates the "#EXTINF:139" types of tags, but it screws up the title names. I'll just write a script to remove all those lines and reverse the slash orientation.
Thanks to all for your help.

Converting WinAmp (M3U) Playlists Into iTunes (XML) Playlists

Hi. I was wondering if someone could help me out with suggestions on converting my old WinAmp (.m3u) playlists into usable iTunes (.xml) playlists?
I have Windows XP Pro (with the latest Windows updates), and a brand new iPod 160 Gig Classic.
I have used WinAmp as my media player for the longest time. The reason that I haven't created playlists in iTunes is because:
It took me years to customize these Winamp playlists exactly how I want them (you know how that is).
iTunes is a huge program that tends to takes up too many system resources on my PC. I have an older PC, and don't have the time or money to invest in a new system, copy files, set it up, etc.
iTunes somehow modifies an mp3 whenever it is played in iTunes ( I can see that it has been modified in the "Date Modified" column, where my mp3 files are located).
Historically - up until the last year or so, iTunes has not had too much of a problem faithfully importing my Winamp playlists into iTunes (to be transferred onto my iPod).
So, I just got off the phone with Apple Technical Support, Tier 2. I told him that I had the latest version of iTunes (version 10), installed yesterday.
I successfully imported my 90 Gigs of mp3's into the iTunes "Music Library" without a problem.
The problem arose today when I tried to import one of my WinAmp (.m3u) playlists into iTunes, so that I could copy the playlist over onto my iPod. I've done this dozens of times. I've already tried uninstalling and then reinstalling iTunes.
Like I said, I really want to keep these playlists it took a long time to customize the occurrence and frequency of favorite mp3's into those playlists.
The technician said that the latest release of iTunes won't work with Winamp (m3u) playlists. I asked him if he thought it would work again if I downloaded an older version of iTunes. He said that with the new iPod Classic that I have, it will not work with older versions of iTunes (I have no idea why), so that's out. He suggested Googling an "m3u to xml file converter."
I checked on Google and saw a lot of programs that will convert xml files to m3u file format (for reasons unknown to me), but I haven't had any luck online finding a file converter that will faithfully convert my WinAmp (.m3u) playlists TO iTunes (.xml) playlists to use instead, and make iTunes run smoother. Any suggestions?*
* Keep in mind that I'd really prefer to convert my m3u playlists, rather than create all new iTunes playlists from scratch.
Thanks.

solgar wrote:
Tried the plug-in with Apple Technical Support. This WinAmp plug-in unfortunately does absolutely nothing.
I went back an read some of the comments and it sounds like it only works with older versions of WinAmp.
Try this http://www.topdownloads.net/software/m3u-to-xml-xspf-converter_2_39472.html
or this python script http://users.musicbrainz.org/~matt/xspf/m3u2xspf
or http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Convertors/M3UtoXSPF.shtml
Not sure this one will work since it is looking like the latest iTunes no longer supports m3u file sbut worth a try see http://www.burroak.on.ca/m3u2itunes.html

.m3u / playlist & itunes madness

Here's something that I thought would be rather straight-forward but has consumed me for the last several days...
As a small holiday gift, I gave people a mix CD of music I made in GarageBand, something I've done every year. But this year I got the bright idea to give out a DVD of the mp3 files or in some cases a .dmg/.zip so A) I didn't have to burn a bunch of discs and B) thought it'd be easier for recipients just to import the tracks into iTunes.
What I didn't expect was, even with the tracks numbered sequentially 01-30 before the file names, they would not import in the proper order. So, I did some research and realized .m3u playlists were the key - not knowing iTunes can't natively export playlist files and most of the scripts/applets I found didn't work due to age/compatibility.
So... created a .m3u playlist file with all the file names, double-click that but it still only imports 25 out of the 30 mp3s into the LIBRARY and does not create a playlist in the sidebar! Which means, my non-tech savvy recipients will have to be coached into grouping the tracks or by using smart playlist by date added -- now we're getting in way over the heads of my friends and if I ever want them to listen to the music I created, I have to make this super, one-click easy for them.
Why is this so complicated? I just want to give music files to friends, have it import into itunes in the correct desired order, and make it a playlist in the sidebar!
I'm also frustrated that my homemade .m3u playlist file only imports 25 out of the 30 tracks for some reason. I can find no logic as to why it leaves out five.
Can anybody out there offer advice/solution(s)? Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!

Here's something that I thought would be rather straight-forward but has consumed me for the last several days...
As a small holiday gift, I gave people a mix CD of music I made in GarageBand, something I've done every year. But this year I got the bright idea to give out a DVD of the mp3 files or in some cases a .dmg/.zip so A) I didn't have to burn a bunch of discs and B) thought it'd be easier for recipients just to import the tracks into iTunes.
What I didn't expect was, even with the tracks numbered sequentially 01-30 before the file names, they would not import in the proper order. So, I did some research and realized .m3u playlists were the key - not knowing iTunes can't natively export playlist files and most of the scripts/applets I found didn't work due to age/compatibility.
So... created a .m3u playlist file with all the file names, double-click that but it still only imports 25 out of the 30 mp3s into the LIBRARY and does not create a playlist in the sidebar! Which means, my non-tech savvy recipients will have to be coached into grouping the tracks or by using smart playlist by date added -- now we're getting in way over the heads of my friends and if I ever want them to listen to the music I created, I have to make this super, one-click easy for them.
Why is this so complicated? I just want to give music files to friends, have it import into itunes in the correct desired order, and make it a playlist in the sidebar!
I'm also frustrated that my homemade .m3u playlist file only imports 25 out of the 30 tracks for some reason. I can find no logic as to why it leaves out five.
Can anybody out there offer advice/solution(s)? Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!

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.

How to transfer library with play count and top 25 playlist to another itunes library?

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I would like to transfer all my music, with the play count and top 25 most played and other playlists to another iTunes library on a Mac. How would I go about doing this?

What exactly are you trying to do? You already have another library on the computer and wish to add items from another library? This is not easily done and meeting all the requirements you have posted. While it is possible to transfer play count I think it is one of the things that requires Applescripting knowledge.
If you are just wanting to move a library from one place to another that is possible, though still tricky because you start encountering user permissions.

Import and export m3u playlists

Subject says it all. I've put some work into playlists in Winamp and I want to get them into Spotify.
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Feature-request-Import-M3U-playlists/m-p/196104#M17697
Thanks

Should work with Soundiiz, because you can upload/drag & drop .m3u files there as well. Another one would be PlaylistConverter, UseSpotify and Ivy which can import plain text lists as well as iTunes playlists and CSV files. I admit that I did not test this myself though, but here are the necessary links:
http://soundiiz.com/#/converter
http://www.playlist-converter.net/#/
http://usespotify.com/
http://www.ivyishere.org

M3U Playlist format/encoding

I have been trying to get a m3u playlist that I created to work properly with Strobe Media Playback, but have run into a small issue. All of my files reside on my Amazon AWS S3 bucket. I've created the F4M files for each file, but I received the following comment from a support team member at Amazon.
"Most of our customers have good experiences with jwplayer or flowplayer but in this case the issue I think is the format specification of the M3U files which might lend to bad URLS, if you can modify strobe code, you can have it write to a textbox all the points and where it is failing as like I said I am not a strobe expert."
Is there a specific encoding that must be used when creating these playlists, or is it enough to simply begin with #EXTM3U?
Mine looks like:
#EXTM3U
http://mymcneillfamilymedia.s3.amazonaws.com/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf?src=rtmp://s1pzw55vb9 pxdi.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/mp4:bulletsinthegun.mp4&urlIncludesFMSApplicationInstance=true
http://mymcneillfamilymedia.s3.amazonaws.com/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf?src=rtmp://s1pzw55vb9 pxdi.cloudfront.net/cfx/st/mp4:californiagurls.mp4&urlIncludesFMSApplicationInstance=true
Thanks in advance for any possible insight!
Tim

Hi Silviu,
Strange, my email return did not come through...
I created a new distribution last night, trying to get this working.
The generated code is:
Preview Code
<object width="640" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://mymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com/strobeplayer/src/player/StrobeMediaPlayback/bin/St robeMediaPlayback.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="src=http%3A%2F%2Fmymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fvideos%2Fplaylist.m3u&urlInclu desFMSApplicationInstance=true"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="wmode" value="direct"></param><embed src="http://mymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com/strobeplayer/src/player/StrobeMediaPlayback/bin/St robeMediaPlayback.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="direct" width="640" height="390" flashvars="src=http%3A%2F%2Fmymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fvideos%2Fplaylist.m3u&urlI ncludesFMSApplicationInstance=true"></embed></object>
Embed variable
Source Swf: http://mymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com/strobeplayer/src/player/StrobeMediaPlayback/bin/St robeMediaPlayback.swf width: 640 height: 390 src: http://mymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com/videos/playlist.m3u
urlIncludesFMSApplicationInstance: true
SWF - http://mymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com/strobeplayer/src/player/StrobeMediaPlayback/bin/St robeMediaPlayback.swf
M3U Playlist - http://mymcneillfamily.s3.amazonaws.com/strobeplayer/src/player/StrobeMediaPlayback/bin/pl aylists/playlist.m3u
Here is the official response from Amazon AWS:
"Hi Tim,
An M3U file is not the correct way to implement server-side playlists for Adobe Flash Media Sever (which CloudFront streaming distributions are based on). If you need to implement a server-side playlist, this article may help you: http://blogs.kranich.org/karl/2010/08/11/jw-player-amazon-cloudfront-and-playlists/ It looks like we've gone several different directions on this case, and I'm really sorry for all the confusion. I'd like to try to make this simpler for you. I suggest we start by testing the basic functionality of your video files with CloudFront, and other things, like your preferred player or playlist functionality, can be looked at once we know the basics are working. I suggest you make sure your videos are uploaded to the mymcneillfamily bucket (which is the bucket that your streaming distribution points to). Once your videos are where they can be streamed, we have a diagnostic tool we suggest you try: http://d1k5ny0m6d4zlj.cloudfront.net/diag/CFStreamingDiag.html Put the name of your distribution and the name of the video in the text boxes and press play. If the files are compatible, you'll see the video displayed in the tool; if they aren't, or if something else is wrong, the tool will give an error message. If you need help interpreting the error message, let us know and we can assist you. Once you know the individual videos work, you can work on getting your player and playlist to work. I want to be up-front about the fact that Premium Support is for support with the AWS tools themselves and we don't have training in Flash player support or in features like playlists, but we'll do the best we can to guide you. Regarding the suggestion about the text box, I'm afraid I'm not sure what Vincent was getting at either. However, I think we can leave that aside, as he suggested that in order to help debug the issues here (and I think we have a simpler way to try to do that)."
So, now I'm really not sure how to proceed.
Thanks fr the help!

M3u Playlist Importing

Just downloaded itunes for the first time and now need to import all my playlists into it.
They were created mostly using WinAmp and are in m3u format, when I right click them and select itunes to play, nothing happens. If I drag and drop them into the itunes Playlists section, the name of the playlist appears, but nothing more happens and if I click on it it just allows me to change the name.
The playlists are all linked to mp3s on my PC.

I think you're going to have to try something like M3U2iTunes
I haven't tried it personally, since I don't have any m3u playlists to import into itunes; but from the description of your issue, this should do the trick. Since it always names the playlist the same ting every time, you'll have to rename it on import, I think...but still a lot faster than building them by hand in iTunes.
Here's another one I found, from a regular poster here on AD:
itunesadd_m3uplaylist
http://mysite.verizon.net/teridon/itunesscripts/index.html
Good luck, and let us know whether one of those works!

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hello,
I tried searching the forums for a related questions but didn't find any. if it exists let me know.
i have a iphone 5 (ios 6) and a ipod 2g (ios 4.2). I use itunes on windows and manage both devices manually for music and videos. Now I have a playlist in WMP which I exported as a .m3u file.
In itunes, I can import the playlist and it shows up under the 'playlists' correctly. Now I wanted to transfer this playlist to my ipod and iphone (note: my ipod and iphone already have all the songs in the playlist plus many others. I never use them in 'sync' mode).
I was under the impression that a playlist is just a list of pointers to songs and not songs themselves. So when I drag the playlist into the ipod within itunes, it creates a new playlist with that name on the ipod and correctly transfers the pointers onto the ipod. the playlist works perfectly on the ipod and there and no duplicate songs.
now with the new iphone 5 and new ios 6, something seems to be different. when i drag the playlist into the iphone, it does create a new playlist but it copies all the songs again, even though the exact songs (all metadata identical since they're from the same physical source on my harddisk - album, artists, art, title, etc). so it creates duplicates of these songs.
now the still tougher part. I tunes apparently has a find duplicates feature. But it onyl seem to work for music imported into itunes library. It is greyed out if you click on the iphone and then try to find duplicates (if iphone is set to manually manage music.)
so is this expected behaviour? I think this is a bug in the new ios since the drag drop playlist manually works perfectly in ios 4.2.
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Unfortunately, you'll need to 'start fresh,' as it were. However, you could transfer your library from the old computer and sync. This MAY keep you from having to erase everything. Worst case scenario, if you transfer your library, though, would be to wipe it and then load the same content right back on.
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Hello,
I had a disaster occur a few hours ago and am struggling and hoping to get it back quickly.
First, I have 160GBs of Music (including movies, 90gbs of music) and possibly hundreds of playlist. My iTunes crashed while creating another playlist and when I brought iTunes back up, all of my playlist, preferences as well as library appeared to be deleted.
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If your iTunes Music Library.xml file is intact it may be possible to recereate your library using the following method:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
If that doesn't work...
Have you upgraded to iTunes 8 recently? If so you should have a backup library in the Previous iTunes Libraries folder, in the iTunes folder.
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If you have a reasonably recent backup you want to use, with ITunes closed, drag iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml out of the iTunes folder to the desktop. Then COPY the backup library into your iTunes folder and rename it iTunes Library.itl.
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M3U Playlist doubles the song

Hi, I used to save playlist from Winamp in M3U format.
When I slide my playlists in iTunes one by one, iTunes adds all of the songs again to my library. The playlist are based on songs all contained in my library. My library contains all of my 7600 songs and I use playlists to filter those down.
I have tried figuring out this for a couple months now... I can't believe I am the only one stuck with this problem!
I noticed that when I slide the playlist into iTunes, it would populate the Name field with $artist$ - $title$ sort of format instead of simply $title$. All of my tags are correct and are displaying correctly in iTunes except for those "dupe-added" from M3U playlists
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I'm just moving over to iPod/iTunes from Windows Media player and another mp3 player. I have all my playlists in .m3u format. There are 1000's of songs in some of them so deleting the duplicates isn't an option. I also tried the method suggested on this post - Preferences, Advanced, "Copy files to iTunes music folder..." and unfortunately this didn't work either.
When I import m3u files into iTunes, it creates duplicate entries in my library. If I close and then re-open iTunes, the imported playlist will lose every song in the playlist and give me a message: '+The song "Song name" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?+' Sure I could locate every song but when there are 1000's this isn't an option.
I'm hunting around for a solution but are yet to find one.
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I haven't tried this yet as it might take a while.
I'll look around for other solutions and report back if I have some luck.
If anyone has any suggestions or has solved a similar problem let me know
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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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