I've seen many questions about this matter over the years, and thought I'd been lucky. Every link containing a .m3u file opened in my media player, WACUP. However ... aft… (閱讀更多)
I've seen many questions about this matter over the years, and thought I'd been lucky. Every link containing a .m3u file opened in my media player, WACUP. However ... after an update to version 143 it suddenly didn't. .m3u links opened as a text file in the browser window.
We have five windows 10 workstations in the home, and this happened with all of them.
I write webpages for a family intranet, and several thousand tracks are available for playing, so that was messed up too.
These are the steps I followed - unsuccessfully:
- Bulleted list item Checked file association settings in Windows 10. .m3u was associated to WACUP, my media player.
- Bulleted list item Checked file actions in Firefox. .m3u files set to open in WACUP.
- Bulleted list item Added the type="audio/mpgurl" in the anchor link for webpages I make.
- Bulleted list item Changed the default download panel in FF settings to "Ask". I could then get it to ask me to save or open. "Open" worked, as it this is tied to the system default audio player - nothing to do with FF.
- Bulleted list item A few other frustrating, but eventually inconsequential solutions that were in the realm of "I wonder if ...?"
So ... after all of this and a lot of investigation I noticed something interesting: All my playlists were in the format with just a listing of the filename, which as mentioned had been working for years:
Example "01 Queen - We Are The Champions.mp3".
Yet a playlist made in VLC had a different format: example,
"#EXTM3U
- EXTINF:-1,01 The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda.mp3
01 The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda.mp3 "
SOLUTION
Having far too much time on my hands, I experimented with this, dissecting the various components of the playlist, and eventually found when adding "#EXTM3U" as the first line in the playlist, Firefox opened the playlist in WACUP once again when the link was clicked.
New playlist entry:
- EXTM3U
01 Queen - We Are The Champions.mp3
02 ...
03 ...
etc.
I've left the "type='audio/mpegurl" declaration in the link.
I don't know why this happened, but I hope somebody finds this useful in the future.
So now I have several thousand playlists to edit, although Notepad++ will make this easier, but by no means quick.