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shared-mime-info package

  1. Bug #23272
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 23272

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: nautilus/totem no longer recognises '.m3u' files

The 'EXT' stands for 'Extended' and denotes an extension to the normal "format".
 m3u itself is just a "simple list of files/URLS" (aka a playlist) and does not
have the extra metadata that extm3u adds, hidden in the comment lines:

  http://www.schworak.com/programming/music/playlist_m3u.asp

I have not yet come across a downloadable playlist link that has contained this
information. As there appear to be more 'normal' m3u files than ones containing
extensions I would like to reopen this bug.