m3u playlist no special characters - problem

[Number_1]

Hi all,

problem as mentioned in the subject line
I have a workaraund for it but want to know where the problem is.

steps to reproduce:
- put some songs to a winamp playlist (some songs with äöüøå or similar unusual characters for example)
- export playlist
- copy songs + playlist to mobile phone (android)
- open sony music app, open playlist
- all songs with special characters are missing in the playlist.


First I´ve tried to create m3u file with "Yar-matey!_Playlist_Copier_v1_12".
Next I exported m3u file directly from winamp . (had to delete the full path of every song so that it can be played on another device) - both the same problem...

Workaround1 is to open the m3u file with windows editor, safe with utf8 coding and copy to the mobile phone.
Workaround2 ist to crate m3u playlist from windows media player and copy it to the mobile phone.
But I´d like to know if it is a winamp or a sony music app problem. (if its sony i could write them a mail...)
Any ideas??

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specs: win10, winamp5.666, sony xperia z3c, sony xperia m

[DJ Egg]

Hi

You need to save as unicode .m3u8 in Winamp

The only problem there being that Android might only support .m3u not .m3u8...

(so you'll probably need to rename the .m3u8 to .m3u first)

[Number_1]

Thanks a lot

exactly - the Sony Android player seems to not support m3u8. Thats a problem too. So the only way is m3u which causes the issues.

[Number_1]

Hi again,
I forgot to say that renaming .m3u8 to .m3u doesn´t work. (not recognized in Android player)
Do you have any idea which app causes the issue?