M3U

M3U ( .

An M3U file is a plain text file that contains the locations of one or more media files that the mediaplayer should play. Each location is placed on a new line. The locations can be either absolute or relative local pathnames (e.g., C:My MusicChanson.mp3 or Chanson.mp3 ) or they can be URLs. The file can also include comments, prefaced by the # character. In extended M3U, # also introduces extended M3U directives.

The file is saved with the M3U or m3u filename extension.

=See also=

PLS (file format), an alternative playlist file format

=External links=

*[http://www.scvi.net/pls.htm Definition of basic M3U format. Also includes PLS.] *[http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html Definition of the extended M3U format.]

=Radio=

M3U is also used for online radio stations as it supports most media player s.