B4S vs M3U

[Kieran Walker]

I'm curious about something.

Winamp3 had the B4S playlist filetype, from what I read. I've never personally used it (only tried a later beta of Winamp3 and decided to stick with 2), but evidently this format couldn't be read by Winamp 2/5 out of the box.

My question was, what was the actual -difference- between the B4S playlist filetype and the typical M3U filetype? Was it just a different file extension, or was there some difference in the way the information was stored (IE, not just a text file like M3U)?

[Koopa]

As I remember, the b4s playlist is some kind of xml file. The M3U playlist is just a text file.

Most players and other tools have support for m3u playlists. So this is the best choice. :)

Winamp3 is dead, so the b4s playlist type, too.

There are two plug-ins, to load old b4s playlists and convert them.

Winamp 5 Media Library Import/Export Plug-in (http://bluemars.org/ml_impex/wa5-ml_impex1.3.exe) and B4S Loader (http://nunzioweb.com/daz/files/gen_b4s2m3u_v0_7.zip) by Dro.

[billyvnilly]

yeah i think b4s used

<entry Playstring="file:C:\mp3\file.mp3">

while m3u uses

#EXTINF:###,id3tags
C:\mp3\file.mp3