# Playlist generation problem
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-generation-problem/2633
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-generation-problem/2633 "2005-12-14T12:27:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Lay\_Zee](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lay_Zee)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-generation-problem/2633/1 "2005-12-14T12:27:00Z")
Ok, here goes my problem. Recently I have updated my Mp3Tag from 2.31 to 2.34a. I mostly use it for playlist creation. I used to use Ctrl+P combination to create a playlist from all files in directory.
I live in Russia, but most of my mp3 files have English tags. Yesturday I have tried to create a playlist from some mp3s with Russian tags and filenames. Tags were in ANSI. Now I have faced the following two situations:
1. If I have checked "Decode ISO-8859-1 tags using system codepage", then Mp3Tag reads tags correctly. Filenames are displayed correctly too. But when I create a playlist it does not contain any filename or Title/Artist information, it looks like this:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:336,#EXTINF:183,#EXTINF:275,... etc
playlist file name is in Russian and it reads correctly in Explorer and Far Manager
2. If I uncheck "Decode ISO-8859-1 tags using system codepage", then Mp3Tag displays some garbage instead of tag fields, but still displays filenames correctly. But now it creates a playlist with garbage instead of playlist. I can't view/open this file with Far Manager, Winamp refuses to open it too. I can open it with Notepad though. The contents reads like this:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:336, Artist\_Name\_In\_Russian - Title1\_In\_Russian
#EXTINF:183, Artist\_Name\_In\_Russian - Title2\_In\_Russian
#EXTINF:275, Artist\_Name\_In\_Russian - Title3\_In\_Russian
So this playlist does not contain any filenames in it, and useless.
I have tried to uninstall v2.34a and reinstalled previous v2.31 and it worked like a charm.
I have also tried the above scenario on my second PC with the same result, so it does not my Windows XP installation flaw.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2005, 10:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-generation-problem/2633/2 "2005-12-17T10:50:03Z")
With the current [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de) I've changed the encoding of playlists back to the system codepage.
This should fix the problem.
Best regards,
~ Florian
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/playlist-generation-problem/2633/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:33Z")