

* Includes guide to hand-coding m3u files. This is the same file as above, saved as sample.m3u in C:Documents and SettingsIMy Music #EXTM3U #EXTINF:123,Sample title Sample.mp3 #EXTINF:321,Example title Greatest HitsExample.oggThis format in an M3U allows you to copy it to another device for playback, if you copy all files and folders it refers to. This method is more compatible as it doesn't rely on the file path staying the same. The M3U file is placed in the same folder as the music, and directories must be preserved when moving the playlist to another device if subfolders are used. Here is another example, in relative format. After starting up, the media player will play all contents of the folder: C:Music The m3u file should contain only one string: the path to the folder.
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#SAMPLE M3U FILE HOW TO#
#EXTM3U #EXTINF:123,Sample title C:Documents and SettingsIMy MusicSample.mp3 #EXTINF:321,Example title C:Documents and SettingsIMy MusicGreatest HitsExample.oggThis example shows how to create an m3u file linking to a specified folder (Flash drive, CD-ROM, for example).
#SAMPLE M3U FILE MAC OS X#
On the Mac OS X and Linux platforms, Unix paths are used. The value after the length is the title to be shown, which is generally the same as the location of the file which is on the second line. A length of -1 may be used when the media file is a streaming file, as there is no predefined actual length value possible. Sample.mp3 and Example.ogg are the media files.
#SAMPLE M3U FILE WINDOWS#
Here is an example of an extended M3U file on the Windows platform. * B4S (file format) Winamp3 XML based playlist format

Many applications can treat a m3u file as UTF-8, however. "m3u" files properly use the Latin-1 charset, the unicode version of "m3u" is "m3u8", it can include UTF-8 unicode characters. The file is saved with the "M3U" or "m3u" filename extension. The created file provides easy access to that stream and can be used for things like downloading from a website or for emailing, or for Internet radio listening. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a playlist file that contains a single entry pointing to a stream on the Internet.

In extended M3U, "#" also introduces extended M3U directives. The file can also include comments, prefaced by the "#" character. The locations can be either absolute or relative local pathnames (e.g., "C:My MusicChanson.mp3" or "Chanson.mp3") or they can be URLs. It was originally implemented in Winamp, although it is now supported by many applications.Īn M3U file is a plain text file that contains the locations of one or more media files that the mediaplayer should play. tvg-shift=-2 - support EPG offset (supported in fw 4.2.M3U ( Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator, MP3 URL) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. channel-number=10 - Channel number to be displayed to user (numbers are generated, by default from 1) (supported in fw. refresh=“3600” - playlist refresh period tvg-logo=“ - URL to channel in PNG format tvg-name=“Channel” - channel name in EPG file group-title=“Favorite” - favorites (groups of channels) format=“auto” - stream format for better player setup can be: auto - use auto detection, mpegts - use MPEG-TS demuxer, hls - use HLS demuxer, other - use FFMpeg demuxer.
