m3u8 files are basically unicode-friendly versions of .m3u playlist files.
The different (AFAIK) between m3u and m3u8 files is: m3u is ANSI  m3u8 is UTF-8 files compatible with foreign languages.

-stisev (September 05, 2011, 12:35 AM)

In my experience you can save m3u files as UTF-8 and they still work with the likes of Winamp or AIMP2.

I have written a tiny command-line utility to create a file called playlist.m3u from an alphabetically sorted list of all mp3 / ogg / wav files in a folder. The resulting file extension is m3u, but the file is encoded as UTF-8 if any of the filenames contains trans-ASCII characters. I use it with Total Commander, because it lets me easily execute a command-line program in a specific folder. Let me know if it is something you could find useful!

-tranglos (September 05, 2011, 12:18 PM)

Hi tranglos,
yea, I would assume winamp would take m3u as UTF-8. It's too bad I don't use TC.  I used it a while back but gave it up for the best file manager yet -- XYplorer.

Plus, I would need the following criteria:


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UPDATE:rofl
 
answered my own request, BUT we could still use a program like create3mu that does this seamlessly.  With this script, I have to open m3u tag, load up ALL of the folders into mp3tag (takes a long time).


One can use mp3tag using the following export configuration to do exactly what I want:
1) Relative file name
2) m3u8 or m3u file extension
3) -directoryname-.m3u8 (or m3u) file naming structure
4) 1 in each folder, respecting folder structure
5) UTF-8 format

UPDATE:rofl
 
answered my own request, BUT we could still use a program like create3mu that does this seamlessly.  With this script, I have to open m3u tag, load up ALL of the folders into mp3tag (takes a long time). 


One can use mp3tag using the following export configuration to do exactly what I want:
1) Relative file name
2) m3u8
3) -directoryname-.m3u8 file naming structure
4) 1 in each folder
5) UTF-8 format