Any way of packaging up a playlist (with the appropriate mp3 files) and
sending to friends? Be cool if you could send it to people and they just
could add it to their player.

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:01 -0800, Duke
<Duke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Any way of packaging up a playlist (with the appropriate mp3 files) and
>sending to friends? Be cool if you could send it to people and they just
>could add it to their player.

Sure - you can use an M3U playlist format. That's supported by media
player and pretty much every other player out there.

If you took a while to look at this page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

You can create and edit that file in Notepad, then save as
playlist.m3u

Let's assume you have 3 files in a folder, one is in a sub folder -

Folder1
track_1.mp3
track_2.mp3

SubFolder
track_3.mp3


Creating a playlist in notepad it would look like

#EXTM3U

track_1.mp3
track_2.mp3
SubFolder\track_3.mp3

Pretty simple. You can actually save a playlist in WMP (click the
playlist name then Save As and choose M3U as the playlist type instead
of WSX or ASX)

That file will contain the actual folders on your PC, which won't be
the same on the recipients PC, so you'd need to search and replace to
get a folder structure like we did above. It's simpler if they're all
in the same folder, just replace e.g. C:\My Music with (nothing)

You can then put the M3U playlist into Folder1. Right-click Folder1
and choose Send To Compressed (zipped) folder

Send the created ZIP file to your friends. They should Unzip that
first to a 'real' Folder1 at their end, then double-click the M3U
playlist to play back the files in the order you chose.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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