Creating m3u files

[kirkmc]

Anyone conversant with these?
I've been making them in notepad - just adding each filename and Path on a new line and saving as xx.m3u.
Then d-click it and the tracks all play in Winamp.
So when one failed it took me a while to figure it out. Problem ended up being a space in the folder the m3u was saved in.
So I Googled to get some more info, and found things like "#EXTINF " which I'd never used.
What/how is that used ? And is any way to get around the space in the folder name?
Thanks for any info.

[Subtitles]

Plenty of information if you do google search.
As to your question about the space, just enclose it like this:
"URL Folder BlaBla"

[kirkmc]

Yes, quite a bit on Google but none of it particularity useful or well-explained (that I could find).
What you said is a bit hard to follow. What is "it" that you enclose in quotes ? Inside the m3u text file is a list of mp3 file specifications. Enclosing them in quotes made no difference. It's saved to a location but that address isn't used anywhere (where you might enclose it in quotes) you just d-click the file.
What show "URL" ? Is that significant in any way?
Do you have any links or more details ?

[Subtitles]

Yes, quite a bit on Google but none of it particularity useful or well-explained (that I could find).
What you said is a bit hard to follow. What is "it" that you enclose in quotes ? Inside the m3u text file is a list of mp3 file specifications. Enclosing them in quotes made no difference. It's saved to a location but that address isn't used anywhere (where you might enclose it in quotes) you just d-click the file.
What show "URL" ? Is that significant in any way?
Do you have any links or more details ?

Please read this article
https://dj.studio/blog/m3u-playlist-maker

[thecoalman]

Personally I have just used a media player to create playists and don't know shit about them other than that. However looking up this issue it appears some software may require URL encoding presumably even for local file paths. This i something I know a lot about. Space character is not a valid character in URL and if for example you type one into browsers address bar it will convert it to %20 before making the request to server.

Try adding %20 for the space. If you have multiple instances and there is a pattern you can use find and replace in editor like Notepad++, e.g. find /some folder/ and replace with /some%20folder/