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pwabrahams:
What is the line termination convention for playlists?  Are they expected to use the DOS LF/CR termination or the Unix LF termination?  Or is either acceptable?

I'm having a problem with playlist entries not being recognized even though they look correct, and I'm wondering if a line termination issue might be the cause.

bluebrother:
As far as I know there is no requirement for line terminators to be Unix or DOS. How exactly do those unrecognized entries look like? Do they possibly include non-ASCII characters?

pwabrahams:
Here are the first few tracks in the playlist in question:

--- Code: ---#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:208000,01. Sinfonia
MUSIC/Cantata 021/01 - BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - 01. Sinfonia.ogg
#EXTINF:263000,02. Coro: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis
MUSIC/Cantata 021/02 - BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - 02. Coro- Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis.ogg
#EXTINF:289000,03. Aria (S): Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not
../MUSIC/Cantata 021/03 - BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - 03. Aria (S)- Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not.ogg
#EXTINF:98000,04. Recitativo (T): Wie hast du dich, mein Gott

--- End code ---
And here's the directory listing:

--- Code: ---pwa@pwa-K60IJ:/media/0123-4567/MUSIC$ ls Cantata\ 021 | head -n 3
01 - BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - 01. Sinfonia.ogg
02 - BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - 02. Coro- Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis.ogg
03 - BWV 21 - Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - 03. Aria (S)- Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not.ogg

--- End code ---
I only have this problem on a few albums, not on all of them.  And some of the ones that work have German track titles like these.

bluebrother:
Is the playlist m3u or m3u8? The latter is a m3u file with utf-8 encoding, while the former uses the codepage setting. So depending on the encoding of the working playlists and their file extension the umlauts are your problem :)

The best way is to save the playlists with utf-8 encoding and use m3u8 as file extension.

pwabrahams:
Is it sufficient to rename the playlist from Play1.m3u to Play1.m3u8, or do I need to do more than that?  I'm generating my playlists in Amarok, and it doesn't seem to have a way to specify UTF8 encoding.  I don't know about other playlist-generating programs.

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