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Topic: Can I delete all playlist.m3u files? (Read 7996 times) previous topic - next topic
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Can I delete all playlist.m3u files?

I'm on a Mac, until recently only using iTunes. 

Someone on this forum said that iTunes doesn't need playlist.m3u files and that I can throw them out because all relevant info is embedded in the music files.

But he said that specifically about iTunes.  Now I'm discovering Vox and VLC and other music file players and I'm wondering if I'm ever going to regret throwing out those playlist.m3u files.

Is there any reason at all to keep these things?

I've already tossed out quite a few of them.  I hope I didn't make a mistake.  But I haven't noticed anything wrong so far.

Can I delete all playlist.m3u files?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Juha on
Are you out of storage space or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U


I always keep them out because when using XBMC it lists the files and the M3U links separately. So you see all the files twice. If you put all your albums in 1 folder it could be handy to have M3U files pointing to the right files, but I use normal folders for that. I play FLAC files only b.t.w. but the effect is the same.

Can I delete all playlist.m3u files?

Reply #3 –
I've never ran into a situation where I needed an .m3u file for my albums. Any music library management software (iTunes, foobar2000, WMP, etc) will use the files' ID3 tag or equivalent to index and sort the songs.

Programs like VLC are really just about playback and don't provide functions to manage a library. VLC seems to be more focused on video anyway.

Can I delete all playlist.m3u files?

Reply #4 –
So I've too been searching for a simple way to delete all my .m3u files. And the easiest method I can recommend is to use the terminal.

Everything is explained here: http://superuser.com/questions/241333/mac-...-directory-tree

Here is the command. You simply need to replace /path with the actual folder path you want.

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find /path -name '*.m3u' -delete

It worked for me.

Can I delete all playlist.m3u files?

Reply #5 –
Couldn't you just use Windows Explorer to search for *.m3u, select all and delete?