{"id":135,"date":"2006-06-07T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T09:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2006\/06\/07\/the_quickest_wa\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T09:22:45","slug":"the_quickest_wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2006\/06\/07\/the_quickest_wa\/","title":{"rendered":"The quickest way to make an MP3 playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M3U files, at the very, <em>very<\/em> minimum, are text files listing MP3s in a particular directory. Most of my playlists are located with their MP3s, so they don&#8217;t mess with file paths. There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/hanna.pyxidis.org\/tech\/m3u.html\">M3U<\/a> specification, but I tend to be lazy.<\/p>\n<p>How lazy?<\/p>\n<p>I open up a command prompt in my directory of MP3s and type:<\/p>\n<p><tt>dir \/b *.mp3 &gt; &quot;playlist.m3u&quot;<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>I then edit the resulting M3U file in Notepad, if I need to change anything around. Usually, my files are named in a way to put them in their proper track order.<\/p>\n<p>This technique applies to Windows. Not sure what other operating system users do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><tt>dir \/b *.mp3 &gt; \"playlist.m3u\"<\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technophilia-aural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-2b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}