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Line termination in m3u playlists

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Lear:
A rename isn't enough. Non-ASCII characters are encoded differently in an m3u8 file.

Using a plain m3u file should work, if you choose the right codepage setting in Rockbox (it must match what you have on your PC - or rather, what Amarok writes).

pwabrahams:
Where is the codepage setting in Rockbox?  The only relevant thing I can find is that both m3u and m3u8 are acceptable playlist formats.  Amarok doesn't seem to have a codepage setting either.  Does Windows Media Player?

Or is there something else I can do to get Amarok and Rockbox onto the same page?

bluebrother:
Since Linux distributions default to utf-8 encoding these days (at least as far as I know) I suspect the file to be utf-8. I'd try renaming it from m3u to m3u8 and see if it works -- I wouldn't be surprised for Amarok to use the default encoding, so an m3u could very well be utf-8.

Apart from that, try file to figure the encoding.

In Rockbox, see General Settings / Display / Default Codepage.

pwabrahams:
I tried renaming one of my playlists from m3u to m3u8, and now it works as it should.  The renaming might conceivably introduce other problems, but so far I haven't seen any.

Thanks for the pointer!!

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