"Import" your .m3u8 playlist

[Hornet]

EDIT: It appears that, so far this only seems to work with iTunes, since that seems to be the only program I've found so far that exports .m3u8 files in a format steam agrees with. I'm doing a little bit of research into this, and so far I've come up with the following:

Playlists exported directly from iTunes work
Playlists exported from Foobar 2000 do not work
Playlists exported from Winamp
Playlists that properly import from other players into itunes, then exported from iTunes work.

Okay, so there's no option anywhere to import a playlist, but I've discovered a way to effectively do just that.

All the playlists in Steam do, is add music to the music player queue. The first time you do this, a file will be created called "queue.m3u8" For most people, this will be in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\music\_database"

This .m3u8 file acts as a temporary playlist for whatever music is in the queue at the time... I'm sure some of you know where this is going, so here's what you need to do:

Step 1: Close Steam if it's running. You don't have to do this right now, but you'll have to restart steam later if you don't close it now.

Step 2: Open up your music player of choice, and export your playlist. Make sure it's a .m3u8 playlist file, and make sure you name it "queue.m3u8"

Step 3: Place your newly created playlist file into the appropriate place in your steam folder
again, that's "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\music\_database" for most of you. If there's a queue.m3u8 file already there, you can overwrite it.

Step 4: Launch Steam, or restart Steam if you still have it running, and go to your music player. You should see all of the songs that you had in your playlist now in your music player.

Step 5: right click somewhere in the music list in the music player and click "create playlist"

This will create a playlist of whatever songs were in your queue, in this case, that's the contents of the playlist you wanted to import.

I hope this helps some of you... if you have any questions just ask.

[Xnaker Eyes ⭐⭐⭐]

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[Hornet]

Thanks, your +1 means everything to me

[sac]

Doesn't work for me. Once I restart Steam, the queue.m3u8 file is overwritten and goes from a 109KB file to an 8 bytes file. I even made the queue.m3u8 file read only and although it wasn't overwritten, the player didn't display a single song :(

[Jogo Detonado]

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[Xnaker Eyes ⭐⭐⭐]

Originally posted by sac:

Doesn't work for me. Once I restart Steam, the queue.m3u8 file is overwritten and goes from a 109KB file to an 8 bytes file. I even made the queue.m3u8 file read only and although it wasn't overwritten, the player didn't display a single song :(

did you try it in offline mode?

[ColdVergil]

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[sac]

Originally posted by Tag JuampyXnaker:

Originally posted by sac:

Doesn't work for me. Once I restart Steam, the queue.m3u8 file is overwritten and goes from a 109KB file to an 8 bytes file. I even made the queue.m3u8 file read only and although it wasn't overwritten, the player didn't display a single song :(

did you try it in offline mode?

Just tried it now in offline mode. As soon as I restart Steam, even in offline mode, same thing happening. Queue.m3u8 is overwritten with a blank queue list. I have another 4 files in the folder and I'm not sure if that matters:

musicdatabase_0010.db
musicdatabase_0013.db
queueinfo.vdf
rules.vdf

I'm also using Win8.1 and not sure if that's relevant.

[Hornet]

I did this in Windows 7, but I can't imagine why it would matter. I didn't do anything with the other files in the folder. None of my computers are running Windows 8, so I can't try to duplicate this. Does anyone else have issues getting this to work with Windows 8?

EDIT: It appears that, so far this only seems to work with iTunes, since that seems to be the only program I've found so far that exports .m3u8 files in a format steam agrees with. I'm doing a little bit of research into this, and so far I've come up with the following:

Playlists exported directly from iTunes work
Playlists exported from Foobar 2000 do not work
Playlists exported from Winamp
Playlists that properly import from other players into itunes, then exported from iTunes work.