Comments on: How do I turn a text file list of artist & song titles into an iTunes playlist?

Question: How do I turn a text file list of artist & song titles into an iTunes playlist?

mabelstreet — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:22:01 -0800

A friend just posted a list of well-nigh every song they played at the dance club we went to as teenagers, exported from his iTunes. I'd love to somehow be able to have that as a playlist in my iTunes, so I could listen to the collection (at least those in the list that I have on my computer). Already checked this AskMe response, but it doesn't really answer. If there's some better way (e.g. if iTunes has some kind of "send a playlist" option that I don't know about), please tell me that. Thanks!

By: zippy

zippy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:39:43 -0800

Possible solution: iTunes export.

If your friend can export the playlist as an m3u, you can read it in.

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:18:45 -0800

Assuming you have the exact same artist, album and title tags as your friend's list, you could create a .m3u file. (You could use either a good text editor's search/replace and copy/past functions, or a perl/python/etc. script to write the playlist for you.) Here's a sample .m3u file.



#EXTM3U



#EXTINF:song title1

C:\path\to\library\artist1\album1\title1.mp3



#EXTINF:song title2

C:\path\to\library\artist2\album2\title2.mp3

I put "C:\" because you didn't specify which OS. If your on a mac, then it'd be something like "/Users/mabelstreet/Music/...".