1. M3u Playlist Maker

There are many different types of music playlists that are used by a myriad of music player applications on Windows and other platforms. Out of these playlists file types PLS, M3U and M3U8 are the most popular. Actually M3U8 playlist is exactly the same as M3U except that M3U8 supports unicode characters. Not only M3U playlists supported by a large number of media players such as VLC, WinAmp, and XMMP but it is also the easiest to create. Actually the M3U playlist file contains only the filenames of the music files with one filename per line.

Here is how you can quickly create an M3U playlist for your music files:

Open the micro SD card folder in Windows Explorer, drag the music folders and files that you wish to add to the playlist, and then drop them onto the M3U Dropper menu. When dragging any folders, the dropping menu will appear. You can use the default option settings and simply click OK. M3uEdit is a robust m3u playlist creator/editor. Open one or more m3u files (optionally through the context menu) and drop filenames on them to add, drag the files into any order, or drag-n-drop between different m3u files. Playlist Creator is a free playlist maker software for Windows. With the help of this freeware, you can create your own playlists and save them at a user-defined location on your PC. Songs can be added to a playlist either by adding a folder or by adding files. M3U Playlist Converter simple way to convert your m3u files for the playback on different devices Standalone utility that helps you manage the various connected devices. M3u playlist creator free download - M3U Playlist Creator, Playlist Creator, Myradus Playlist Exporter-iTunes-to-Tivo M3U, and many more programs.

1. Launch Windows File Explorer and open the folder where your music files reside.
2. Press Alt+D, type cmd and press Enter to launch command prompt with that folder as the current directory.
3. In the command prompt give the following command: DIR /B /ON *.mp3 > myplaylist.m3u
4. This is it, now you have the playlist file named myplaylist.m3u in that folder. You can try opening this playlist in any music player such as VLC or XMMP.

The above command puts all the MP3 files in the playlist. If you have music files of other types such as FLAC or WMV, then you can also put them into the playlist using the same syntax. The /ON switch in the command is not really necessary but it creates the list in the alphabetical order which looks much more neat.

M3u Playlist Maker

You can open this playlist file in any text editor such as Windows Notepad and view or edit it yourself. But creating this file using the command above is much faster and also error free. If you create the same file by typing the files by hand, then you might make some mistakes (human error). But using the above command all these human errors can be avoided and your precious time is saved.