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MP3 songs playlist
File type: Settings, options, themes or skins file
Files with m3u extension can be usually found as playlists, typically for a group of .mp3 files or whole folders.
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
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.
The 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, it can include UTF-8 unicode characters.
MIME types:
audio/x-mpegurl
audio/x-scpls
uadio/scpls
Nowadays most media players should be able to handle .m3u files.
Generic M3U playlists may be converted to a media player specific format. This is done with loading the .m3u file and saving it to the new format in your media player.
Software applications that can open m3u files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Google Android
Software applications that can edit m3u files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving m3u files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Apps designed for playing m3u files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create m3u files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Software apps that import m3u files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that export m3u files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that burn m3u files to disc:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that handle other tasks involving m3u files:
Microsoft Windows