Extension 'm3u'? iTunes Playlist? Whatizzit?
I've found an online radio site that I'm interested in listening to. Trouble is, when I click any of the streams, it downloads a file to my desktop with the extension 'm3u'. The icon shows as an iTunes playlist, but when I open it in iTunes (4.0.1) nothing happens.
The site made some mention of WinAmp on the front page. Is this a WinAmp file? If so, is there any way to play a WinAmp stream on a Mac?
Thanks for any help.
The site made some mention of WinAmp on the front page. Is this a WinAmp file? If so, is there any way to play a WinAmp stream on a Mac?
Thanks for any help.
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iTunes connects to streams very well. If it wouldn't connect, there migth have been a problem with the actual stream.
Originally posted by MCQ
I thought m3u was also the extension of a Winamp playlist in general, not sure though.
It's possible, afterall - everything seems to be coded with PCs in mind, but I have never had a problem with SoundJam & iTunes in MacOS 9 or iTunes in MacOS-X playing streams from a .m3u playlist file.
Here's the link to the first radio stream:
http://www.soulwax.com/radio/playlists/radio01_high.m3u
It dl's as an iTunes playlist for me too. When I click on it after, iTunes opens and the radio station is added to my Library, but it doesn't play. Even double clicking on it in the Library is useless. Perhaps the stream IS broken somehow?
Originally posted by VanDeWaals
Hmm...weird.
It dl's as an iTunes playlist for me too. When I click on it after, iTunes opens and the radio station is added to my Library, but it doesn't play. Even double clicking on it in the Library is useless. Perhaps the stream IS broken somehow?
Same here. Strange. The playlists that I've got that work are .pls files. somafm.com and wunc.org's playlists both work fine and give me all the track info. I'll try it on a PC and see if the .m3u file works.
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Radio Soulwax - 1 (Powered By URGent)
http://cleo.rug.ac.be:8000/soulwax-1
As you can see it is just meta data and an URL (in this case). Putting the above URL in directly gave me a connection refused error so I assume that is why it won't work (on any platform).
WM
Originally posted by VanDeWaals
Hmm...weird.
It dl's as an iTunes playlist for me too. When I click on it after, iTunes opens and the radio station is added to my Library, but it doesn't play. Even double clicking on it in the Library is useless. Perhaps the stream IS broken somehow?
I just tried to open the stream with WinAMP on my PC at work - it will not connect. The host must not be working properly.
Big thanks to everyone for their help.