I want to be able to send people legible playlists derived from an m3u file. Is there a simple way to turn an m3u file opened in a text editor into a usable list by stripping all but the ID tag info and leaving a numerical sequence? Or is there a player that will open the list and save it as a "plain" text file?

Much tia.

Ron

You mean like this?



I did that in Foobar2000 by selecting some Michael Jackson tracks and Right Click -> Copy Names and then pasted them into a text editor. I believe you can also customize the way the tracks are copied (%artist% - %title%).

That format there is:

Playlist No. Artist - [Directory] Title [Track Length]

[storm-shadow] makes sense.

To change the way the copy command formats the text go to "Preferences" and select "Display > Default User Interface > Title formatting" from the left-hand tree, and then select the "Copy command" tab on the right.

Take a look "titleformat_help.html" in the foobar directory to work out how to format the string exactly as you want - or post the format you want here and some nice user may help you write the string you need.

E.g.:

<track> - <title> - <artist>, <album>

Very helpful suggestion. I usually use Winamp because I'm used to the interface, but I had a feeling foobar could do something like this.

Thanks,
Ron

OK, I can't easily master that tag language so this is what I'd like TIA:

<artist> - <album> - <title>

With appreciation,
Ron

If your files don't all have the necessary tags you could try something a little more "robust", like: