The following playlist does not work for me (contents show as [Empty] ):
playlist1.m3u:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:434,Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67: Allegro Con Brío
Lubov Orchestra\Beethoven- Symphonies No. 5 And 8\01 Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67_ Allegro Con Brío.mp3
Notice the accented ‘i’ in ‘Brío’.
Now the following playlists, which use UTF-8 encoding, all *do* work:
playlist2.m3u (UTF-8 encoded, still with ‘.m3u’ file extension):
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:434,Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67: Allegro Con BrÃ-o
Lubov Orchestra\Beethoven- Symphonies No. 5 And 8\01 Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67_ Allegro Con BrÃ-o.mp3
playlist3.m3u8 (same as #2, but with ‘.m3u8’ extension):
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:434,Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67: Allegro Con BrÃ-o
Lubov Orchestra\Beethoven- Symphonies No. 5 And 8\01 Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67_ Allegro Con BrÃ-o.mp3
playlist4.m3u8 (with ‘.m3u8’ extension and leading Byte Order Mark):
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:434,Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67: Allegro Con BrÃ-o
Lubov Orchestra\Beethoven- Symphonies No. 5 And 8\01 Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67_ Allegro Con BrÃ-o.mp3
[I believe #4’s success is new with 01.01.15; I think it failed with earlier firmware. Note: I had to fudge the above UTF-8 sequences to get them to appear on this web page as they do in my text editor. The actual byte values for the accented ‘i’ are x’C3AD’.]
I’m glad to see UTF-8 supported with the .m3u8 extension, but shouldn’t the .m3u extension imply the file is *not* UTF-8 encoded and assume ISO encoding?