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Does anyone know what "M3U" actually stands for as an acronym? ~ Irrel 19:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
M3 is MP3, U is URL (It's the web location where the MP3 can be found.)
—The preceding
unsigned comment was added by
68.73.200.130 (
talk •
contribs) 06:49, January 22, 2006(UTC).
Alternatively, the term layer might well have been originally used to distinguish between video and audio "layers" of an MPEG data stream, as in "MPEG-1 audio layer, version 3.0".
Both lines of reasoning give us one more, indirect hint that M3U was not originated by WinAmp, being itself possibly older than the term MP3. It also matches my other finds, which I intend to publish in the main article shortly.
– 6birc ( talk) 22:23, 9 April 2010 (UTC)This article speaks of Winamp, but Winamp isn't the only Media player that uses M3U files at all. I am wondering how this can be adjusted? Roddyboy 02:32, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Evidence that Winamp is not the originator of M3U:
The nearest thing to a reference that has ever happened is "A survey of playlist formats" by Lucas Gonze (written in 2003, that is before the first edit on M3U in Wikipedia), which states "Winamp (?)" as the originator of this playlist format.
Quite clearly, M3U was not implemented in the first-ever edition of Winamp. But even if it was...
— 6birc ( talk) 04:50, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Now there is a ietf draft that refers to this Wikipedia article stating "The M3U Playlist format, originally invented for the Winamp media player". http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-08#ref-M3U 189.34.34.41 ( talk) 23:12, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for this. I found a reference for M3U's origins in Winplay3 buried in an archive of winamp.com's site. I added it to the article. I will notify the author of the IETF draft so he can delete the Winamp mention. — mjb ( talk) 08:01, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
The article asks for citation of the M3U8 file format. I am not sure what is a suitable source reference for this, but it is mentioned in the following pages:
There are also a number of discussion forums that make reference to it. The encoding of this 'unicode' version of M3U is UTF-8 without a Byte-order mark (BOM) from what I can see. There is no definitive page on the format but the convention appears to be accepted based on multiple sources (validate with a search engine). -- AJ Mas ( talk) 04:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Will M3u have image links added? If so what is the code to add your own images? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.170.59.228 ( talk) 02:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
The article contains paras that say (1) `The file is saved with the "M3U" or "m3u" filename extension, and - if edited in a text editor - must be encoded in the Windows-1252 format in order to be understood by media players,' and (2) `"m3u" files properly use the Latin-1 charset.'
I don't know which is right, but it can't be both Windows-1252 and Latin-1 (Sunday name ISO-8859-1). (I'm not a guru, or I could edit the page and my question would go away.)
PS: just to be pedantic, "if edited in a text editor" ... why only if created that way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyresider ( talk • contribs) 18:04, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Please tell me if I am making this comment in the right location, this is my first venture into wikipedia interaction (i.e. "long time listener, first time caller")
I find the "Linux" instructions in the "How To Create" section overly complex, and not so portable
The example combines invocation of 'find' and 'sed'
find . -iname '*' -print | sed -n -E -e 's/.*mp3/&/p' -e 's/.*wav/&/p' -e 's/.*wma/&/p'
The 'find' command specifies to look in current directory, match all file name (ignoring case), and print the results all of those could be just satisfied with a simple 'find', with no parameters:
Yes, my issues with the above "find" are somewhat nit-picky, my main beef is with the 'sed' portion:
The safer, more portable alternative would be to use "find" the way it was intended, with expressions that actually do the work:
find -iname '*.mp3' -o -iname '*.wav' -o -iname '*.wma'
Where we OR (-o) multiple case-insensitive matches on the file names. Note that here the match syntax is a matching pattern and not a regexp, making this a bit more obvious to the novice
Please note that I am just commenting here on file-selection for playlists, not on the actual playlist syntax
--
Quarternose (
talk) 13:47, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
The examples of extended directives do not match the given syntax.
For example, EXTINF is defined here as:
#EXTINF - extra info - length (seconds), title
or
#EXTINF - extra info - length (seconds), artist '-' title
However, the examples are written as:
#EXTINF:123, Sample artist - Sample title
#EXTINF:321,Example Artist - Example title
etc.
In other words, while the syntax is written as using " - extra info - ", the examples use ":". — Preceding unsigned comment added by G a adams ( talk • contribs) 17:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
nt - 75.161.78.59 ( talk) 23:37, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Example:
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=28
video.mp4
Source: "How to Play Certain Sections and Part of Video and Audio in VLC" [1]
I don't know of any method of doing this in VLC without using an extension. I just edit the the m3u file directly in notepad and VLC interprets it correctly.
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Does anyone know what "M3U" actually stands for as an acronym? ~ Irrel 19:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
M3 is MP3, U is URL (It's the web location where the MP3 can be found.)
—The preceding
unsigned comment was added by
68.73.200.130 (
talk •
contribs) 06:49, January 22, 2006(UTC).
Alternatively, the term layer might well have been originally used to distinguish between video and audio "layers" of an MPEG data stream, as in "MPEG-1 audio layer, version 3.0".
Both lines of reasoning give us one more, indirect hint that M3U was not originated by WinAmp, being itself possibly older than the term MP3. It also matches my other finds, which I intend to publish in the main article shortly.
– 6birc ( talk) 22:23, 9 April 2010 (UTC)This article speaks of Winamp, but Winamp isn't the only Media player that uses M3U files at all. I am wondering how this can be adjusted? Roddyboy 02:32, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Evidence that Winamp is not the originator of M3U:
The nearest thing to a reference that has ever happened is "A survey of playlist formats" by Lucas Gonze (written in 2003, that is before the first edit on M3U in Wikipedia), which states "Winamp (?)" as the originator of this playlist format.
Quite clearly, M3U was not implemented in the first-ever edition of Winamp. But even if it was...
— 6birc ( talk) 04:50, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Now there is a ietf draft that refers to this Wikipedia article stating "The M3U Playlist format, originally invented for the Winamp media player". http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-08#ref-M3U 189.34.34.41 ( talk) 23:12, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for this. I found a reference for M3U's origins in Winplay3 buried in an archive of winamp.com's site. I added it to the article. I will notify the author of the IETF draft so he can delete the Winamp mention. — mjb ( talk) 08:01, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
The article asks for citation of the M3U8 file format. I am not sure what is a suitable source reference for this, but it is mentioned in the following pages:
There are also a number of discussion forums that make reference to it. The encoding of this 'unicode' version of M3U is UTF-8 without a Byte-order mark (BOM) from what I can see. There is no definitive page on the format but the convention appears to be accepted based on multiple sources (validate with a search engine). -- AJ Mas ( talk) 04:27, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
Will M3u have image links added? If so what is the code to add your own images? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.170.59.228 ( talk) 02:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
The article contains paras that say (1) `The file is saved with the "M3U" or "m3u" filename extension, and - if edited in a text editor - must be encoded in the Windows-1252 format in order to be understood by media players,' and (2) `"m3u" files properly use the Latin-1 charset.'
I don't know which is right, but it can't be both Windows-1252 and Latin-1 (Sunday name ISO-8859-1). (I'm not a guru, or I could edit the page and my question would go away.)
PS: just to be pedantic, "if edited in a text editor" ... why only if created that way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyresider ( talk • contribs) 18:04, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Please tell me if I am making this comment in the right location, this is my first venture into wikipedia interaction (i.e. "long time listener, first time caller")
I find the "Linux" instructions in the "How To Create" section overly complex, and not so portable
The example combines invocation of 'find' and 'sed'
find . -iname '*' -print | sed -n -E -e 's/.*mp3/&/p' -e 's/.*wav/&/p' -e 's/.*wma/&/p'
The 'find' command specifies to look in current directory, match all file name (ignoring case), and print the results all of those could be just satisfied with a simple 'find', with no parameters:
Yes, my issues with the above "find" are somewhat nit-picky, my main beef is with the 'sed' portion:
The safer, more portable alternative would be to use "find" the way it was intended, with expressions that actually do the work:
find -iname '*.mp3' -o -iname '*.wav' -o -iname '*.wma'
Where we OR (-o) multiple case-insensitive matches on the file names. Note that here the match syntax is a matching pattern and not a regexp, making this a bit more obvious to the novice
Please note that I am just commenting here on file-selection for playlists, not on the actual playlist syntax
--
Quarternose (
talk) 13:47, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
The examples of extended directives do not match the given syntax.
For example, EXTINF is defined here as:
#EXTINF - extra info - length (seconds), title
or
#EXTINF - extra info - length (seconds), artist '-' title
However, the examples are written as:
#EXTINF:123, Sample artist - Sample title
#EXTINF:321,Example Artist - Example title
etc.
In other words, while the syntax is written as using " - extra info - ", the examples use ":". — Preceding unsigned comment added by G a adams ( talk • contribs) 17:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
nt - 75.161.78.59 ( talk) 23:37, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Example:
#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=28
video.mp4
Source: "How to Play Certain Sections and Part of Video and Audio in VLC" [1]
I don't know of any method of doing this in VLC without using an extension. I just edit the the m3u file directly in notepad and VLC interprets it correctly.
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