WinAmp 5.51 stores its playlists in its
Plugins\ml directory, which will usually be
C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\ml. The individual playlists
will be in .m3u8
files with names like plfxxxx.m3u8
and plfE454.m3u8 where
xxxx is a combination of letters and numbers, e.g.
plf7501.m3u8. The mapping between the name you give the list
and those names is in a playlists.xml file in the same directory.
Sample Playlists.Xml File
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<playlists playlists="2">
<playlist filename="plfE454.m3u8" title="Xmas - Hilary Duff - Santa Claus Lane" id="{C0112AC9-0575-422F-B216-9A104962C563}" songs="11" seconds="2200"/>
<playlist filename="plf7501.m3u8" title="Xmas - The Time-Life Treasury Of Christmas" id="{3463FBFD-C77E-44BD-BC13-6044D2E6BEE7}" songs="45" seconds="8327"/>
</playlists>
So, if you want to copy your playlists from one system to another, copy
the .m3u8 files and the playlists.xml files from
the first system to the second system.
But what if the music files, e.g. your .mp3 files, are not in the same directory
on the second system as the first system? Then you will need to edit each
.m3u8 file and update the reference to the actual location
of the music files. E.g. if the files were on drive C:\MP3s on the
first system, but drive D:\MP3s on the second system, you will
need to do a global search and replace on C:\MP3s substituting
D:\MP3s for it. You can use any text editor, such as
Notepad, which comes with Windows, since the .m3u8
files are just text files.
References:
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Lost playlist
Posted on July 30, 2006
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