jevans Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 I have Widows Media Player Version 10 and have tried to download sample music files from some web sites. The download files are in the form of "filename.m3u" which I understand is a Widows Media Player playlist. However when I try to play these file using Mmedia Player I get an error message saying there is a probable server fault.Is there a method to use to configure Media Player or use the download file?Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 M3U EXTENSION WILL START MY NERO MIXERJEFFwhen i save a playlist using nero mixer i have 2 choices *.m3uor*.pls i believe -- i never use nero playeri save as m3u and then open it with editpad and save as a txt filenotepad will also open it if you set up xp to do sohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3uken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevans Posted October 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 M3U EXTENSION WILL START MY NERO MIXERJEFFwhen i save a playlist using nero mixer i have 2 choices *.m3uor*.pls i believe -- i never use nero playeri save as m3u and then open it with editpad and save as a txt filenotepad will also open it if you set up xp to do sohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3ukenSorry Ken,Not sure what you mean. I go to a site and select a download to sample. This brings up a .m3u file which Windows Media Player tries to open. However an error message appears saying that there is something wrong with my proxy server settings. Have tried altering these in Mmemdia Player to no effect. cannot see what I would do with a .txt file conversion.Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 post the site you are going to and i will see what you are gettingm3u is a txt file -- see the wikepedia descriptionken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevans Posted October 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 post the site you are going to and i will see what you are gettingm3u is a txt file -- see the wikepedia descriptionkenKen,Here is the site link. http://www.emusic.com/playlists/playlist/c...p=sep&lid=1This shows a list of music. When I click on the "listen" icon, a m3u file is offered to be opened by Windows Media Player. Then I get the eroor message.Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 well that is a queer oneFinlandia: Finlandia, Op. 26 when i opened the m3u in a txt editor it gives thishttp://samples.emusic.com/s/LV8hKbn-83OzTI...andia_Op_26.mp3by copying this to your browser address bar the music will download to your system and playvery short piece tho'750 kbam sending via emaila mp3 can be opened with winword -- notepad is limited tp 65kb i believeken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 to add more confusion to the mix'tho on my system m3u's are associated with nero player or mixer by default install of nero, my ati card software -- player will also detect it -- when the download started, the ati player icon id'd the file, but when the m3u was on my system it was a nero iconhere is a screen shot of the ati help fileand what m3u fileslook like on my systemJeff you have opened another can of worms ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevans Posted October 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 well that is a queer oneFinlandia: Finlandia, Op. 26 when i opened the m3u in a txt editor it gives thishttp://samples.emusic.com/s/LV8hKbn-83OzTI...andia_Op_26.mp3by copying this to your browser address bar the music will download to your system and playvery short piece tho'750 kbam sending via emaila mp3 can be opened with winword -- notepad is limited tp 65kb i believekenKen,Yes that works ok. Also I find that I cna use Nero Media Player. However Windows Media Player refuses to recognise the m3U file. Anyway I can get it to work now, even if I do not know why. ThanksJeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 Jeff if you go to tools options of wmp you will see no file m3u type ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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