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M3U File (What It Is and How to Open It)

M3U File (What It Is and How to Open It)

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Summary by Lifewire • Unknown Source on Youtube • Published 13 years ago

This article describes what M3U files are, how to use them to queue music in a compatible player, and how to convert them to another playlist format that will work with your media player.

An M3U file is an audio playlist file which stands for MP3 URL and as such is not an actual audio file.

An M3U file simply points to audio (and sometimes video) files so that a media player can queue them for playback. These text-based files may contain URLs and/or absolute or relative pathnames to the media files and/or folders.

M3U files that are UTF-8 encoded are saved in the M3U8 file format.