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Saving and opening m3u playlist files with foobar2000.

Dear friends, I am relatively new with foobar2000 and have a number of problems.

Let's say I want to open a playlist (m3u) file from the Directory where my playlist files are stored at. When I try to open it with foobar, it doesn't open the relative playlist, but it adds the contents of the m3u to the playlist I played last before opening that m3u, thus deleting that playlist's contents. Of course I can always ctrl-z and bring them back, but I wonder why does that have to happen?

But why should you ever try to open a playlist file that way, instead of doing it straight through playlist manager, you may ask. This brings us to another problem I am facing. I know that playlists are automatically saved in the directory C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\foobar2000\playlists. However, they are not saved with the names I give them, but in a numerical order. Moreover they are fpl files, while I'd prefer m3u. I read somewhere that there is now the option "save all playlists" somewhere in foobar. I cannot find it for some reason, except if I activate "playlist tabs" and right click on them, but I do not want to have my playlists in the form of tabs, I prefer using the playlist manager.

So my questions are:

1)Whether I can open a playlist file with foobar without deleting the contents of the previous playlist I played.
2)Whether I can somehow make foobar 2000 automatically (or even manually) save all my playlists in m3u form, with the names I want them to have, and in the directory I want. 

I hope I've managed to express my questions clearly enough, and hopefully somebody will be able to help me with this.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Saving and opening m3u playlist files with foobar2000.

Reply #1 –
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I read somewhere that there is now the option "save all playlists" somewhere in foobar. I cannot find it for some reason

Hold Shift key, then click on the File menu.

Saving and opening m3u playlist files with foobar2000.

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I read somewhere that there is now the option "save all playlists" somewhere in foobar. I cannot find it for some reason

Hold Shift key, then click on the File menu.


Thank you very much lvqcl, that was really helpful!

Saving and opening m3u playlist files with foobar2000.

Reply #3 –
But I still wonder why, when I try to open an m3u file, instead of opening the relative playlist, foobar just opens the last playlist that I played and adds the m3u's contents to it. Any help with that issue would be greatly appreciated.

Saving and opening m3u playlist files with foobar2000.

Reply #4 –
file>load playlist.

or if you have playlist tabs or a playlist manager panel active in your layout, drag/drop the file into an empty space on them.

Saving and opening m3u playlist files with foobar2000.

Reply #5 –
Thanks a lot marc2003!

Saving and opening m3u playlist files with foobar2000.

Reply #6 –
I have a question directly related to Saving and Opening Playlists... so I will add it here in case someone cant help.

I "Save All Playlists..." all the time to my central RAID. And I "Load Playlist" (then Select All my .FPL (or .M3U) files) and load them back constantly to my various foobar instances on various machines for centralized playlists consistency.

Question is: Why are the playlists loaded back in seemingly random order ? Why can't I order the playlists by Name in the UI ?

I can see:  [Playlist Name | Iems | Total Size] but I cannot order my playlists using any of these column headers.

Note that the function "Add to existing playlist" DOES take into account the alphabetic order. My Foobar version is 1.1