Found 1 file type for the .M3U file extension
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Software that works with m3u file extension
File extension M3U - MP3 songs playlist file
File extension M3U description:
M3U (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator, MP3 URL) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It was originally implemented in Winamp, although it is now supported by many applications, including VLC media player, XMMS, foobar2000, JuK, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, iTunes, QuickTime Player, Yahoo! Music Engine, JetAudio, RokuLabs SoundBridge, Spider Player, and PlayStation Portable.
An .m3u file is a metafile playlist that references .mp3 files and provides additional metadata for the items in the playlist. Each song and its location has its own line. The locations can be either absolute or relative local pathnames (e.g., "C:\My Music\Chanson.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.
One common use of the M3U file format is creating a playlist file that contains a single entry pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and can be used for things like downloading from a website or for emailing, or for Internet radio listening.
The unicode version of M3U format is M3U8 format, it can include UTF-8 unicode characters.
MIME: audio/x-mpegurl, audio/x-scpls, uadio/scpls
The default software that works with m3u file format:
Company or developer:
Nullsoft, Inc.
Winamp is very popular media player for Microsoft Windows operating system. Winamp can playback many popular audio files, such as MP3, FLAC, AAC WAV, M4A, OGG as well as video files in AVI, MKV, WMV, FLV, MP4 file formats etc.. Winamp is extensible with other plugins and skins.
List of software associated to the .m3u file extension
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that can be done with the file: like open m3u file, edit m3u file, convert m3u file, view m3u file, play m3u file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
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- Open m3u file
- Play m3u file
- Create m3u file
- Burn m3u file
- Others m3u file
Programs that open m3u file - MP3 songs playlist file
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Microsoft Windows platform:
Main software associated with m3u file by default:
Winamp
Other suggested software:
KMPlayer
Microsoft Windows Media Player
Apple iTunes for Windows
VLC media player
MediaMonkey
