So as you all know I purchased a Zune two or three months ago.

I love the Zune however since the last great Firmware/Software
update the playlist system has become a overly big time waster. I was able to work with the old playlist system fairly quickly(meaning make and distribute playlists with ease).

So after some research(mostly dumb luck) I found that the Zune software will and does respect the m3u playlist structure. Woo hoo or something like that.

So the next adventure was to create m3u playlists. I knew that winamp created these  types of playlists. However being very picky and not liking crapware(unless I have no choice (zune player software ring a bell))

So after hours of googling and trying a way to create m3u’s without winamp. I found a simple solution.

@echo off

dir /o:n /b *.mp3 > Playlist.m3u

Open a text file. Copy and paste the two lines above and save as Playlist.bat yes

this will make the file a batch file. 

Go to the folder in which you have the Mp3’s you would like in a playlist.

**Of course you probably want to change the "playlist" name in the batch file and the batch file itself.

Other software you can use:

Playlist Creator

Itunes Playlist to M3u converter

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