Create music playlists for Android mobile phones
The music player of Android (at least the earlier version) has a big problem is that users cannot add many MP3 to the playlists at onece. It’s very inconvenient to add them one by one. In fact, there is a simple solution: since the music library of Android can search m3u play lists automatically just as search MP3. So users can just create m3u playlists manually or with music players on PC, and then copy them to the memory card.
Here is a brief instruction:
A. Create m3u playlist for Android phones with music players on PC:
1. Run the music player, for example the MPlayer, on PC, draw MP3 on the memory card to MPlayer;
2. Click playlist under play menu and save as m3u format;
3. If some names of MP3 contain non-ASCII characters, then use the NotePad to open the m3u file just created, choose file -> save as -> choose UTF-8 encoding -> save;
4. Copy the m3u file to memory card.
B. Create Android playlists Manually
1. Create a new txt file, put a MP3 filename in each row, For example, create “Classic Music.txt” with content as below:
旅立ち（「はるかな旅」ストリングス·ヴァージョン）.mp3
Bamboo Dance.mp3
Summer.mp3
2. Save as utf-8 encoding format;
3. Rename “Classic Music.txt” to “Classic Music.m3u” and copy it to the memory card.
Here are several hits:
1. Android doesn’t need explicate path names in playlists since the system will scan all audio files and map them by name to the playlist automatically;
2. There is no restriction of the path to put m3u files, though the music directory would be better for organizing;
3. The name of m3u file can have either upper or lower letters;
4. m3u files need to be utf-8 encoding to support MP3 with names including non-ASCII characters.
5. Delete the playlist in the music player of Android will delete the m3u file correspondingly;
6. If there are two MP3 with the same file name, the Android music player will get confused with a m3u file containing that file name.
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Seems to not working with Android 1.6.
Can Android play .m3u playlists that link to files on the internet and not on the device? I listen to a recorded radio show that posts .m3u files for download. These playlists link to files on his server. Thanks
Sorry, I don’t know
Thanks so much – this .m3u trick is quite handy. I was trying to create playlists for audiobooks where track order is very important. To very quickly create the playlist, I used the command prompt to do a dir on the directory, which gives you a alpha-sorted list of all tracks (>250 in this case, all properly named so they’ll sort e.g. “001 – Book name – Track Number”). I then copy pasted the command line text into notepad and saved the file as playlist.m3u directly into the directory on my droid. Then I open the playlist using the standard droid music player and everything was ordered perfectly. Total time was less than 5min after reading your post. Thanks again!
- Brad