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So as you all know I purchased a Zune two or three months ago.

I love the Zune ZunePlaylists however since the last great Firmware/Software
update the playlist system has become a overly big time waster. I was able to work with the old playlist system fairly quickly(meaning make and distribute playlists with ease).

So after some research(mostly dumb luck) I found that the Zune software will and does respect the m3u playlist structure. Woo hoo or something like that.

So the next adventure was to create m3u playlists. I knew that winamp created these  types of playlists. However being very picky and not liking crapware(unless I have no choice (zune player software ring a bell))

 

WinampCrap

So after hours of googling and trying a way to create m3u’s without winamp. I found a simple solution.

@echo off
dir /o:n /b *.mp3 > Playlist.m3u
 
Open a text file. Copy and paste the two lines above and save as Playlist.bat yes
this will make the file a batch file. 
Go to the folder in which you have the Mp3’s you would like in a playlist.
**Of course you probably want to change the "playlist" name in the batch file and the batch file itself.
 
Other software you can use:
 
Playlist Creator
Itunes Playlist to M3u converter
 
posted on Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:47 PM

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# re: How to make a .M3U playlist 12/26/2007 11:19 PM Barney Pfife
I can't get Zune to recognize my m3u files as valid playlists if they are like those created above (which they are). Instead Zune wants this syntax: #EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,

Whaddya make of that?!

# re: How to make a .M3U playlist 12/27/2007 1:31 AM mikedopp
@Barney,
I have not run into this issue. However I will try to break mine to get that issue. Thanks for the heads up. I will find the fix and post it promptly.

Your friend in the war against bad playlist design(No I am not talking about itunes again).
~mike

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