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nieroster:
Winamp uses another file extension for UTF8-playlists (.m3u8)

Why doesn't Rockbox use the same file extensions to distinguish between ASCII (.m3u) and UTF8 (.m3u8) formatted playlists?

It would be nice to have a compatibility mode to read old playlists.

bluebrother:
because Rockbox switched to utf-8 and playlists use Rockbox' encoding, which is utf-8. Recently the extension m3u8 got added for utf-8 encoded playlists. There was some discussion about changing this but it hasn't been addressed yet.

Converting a playlist isn't really hard.

nieroster:
The problem is if I leave the extension to m3u Winamp doesn't read the playlist correctly anmore.

But if I have to change the extension anyway why not let Rockbox read all the "old" playlists in ASCII?

bluebrother:
because nobody has implemented it yet?
Talking of pure ASCII playlists: the lower part of ASCII (i.e. up to 0x7f) is identical for utf-8 and ASCII. So as long as you don't use any extended characters (like umlauts) in your filenames there is no difference, and winamp should read those files without any problem. Possibly Winamp breaks because Rockbox uses a / as path delimiter, but that's a different story. In that case, try the iriverify plugin.

heze:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on October 04, 2006, 06:56:01 PM ---because nobody has implemented it yet?
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--- End quote ---

If so, why did it work until months ago?
That means, it already was implemented, but was removed. Why?

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