# Questions about M3U8, Unicode, Windows Media Player & Stuff
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/questions-about-m3u8-unicode-windows-media-player-stuff/5828
**Category:** Export
**Created:** [December 2, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/questions-about-m3u8-unicode-windows-media-player-stuff/5828 "2007-12-02T13:59:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Solon](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Solon)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/questions-about-m3u8-unicode-windows-media-player-stuff/5828/1 "2007-12-02T13:59:39Z")
Well, well. I played around with the export of MP3Tag the last few days, choked Google for a complete solution, but I'm still stranded.
I "just" need a playlist for unicoded MP3s. That was quite simply done with this MTE:
```
$filename(m3u8,utf-8)#EXTM3U
#EXTART:%artist%
#EXTALB:%album%
$loop(%track%)#EXTINF:%_length_seconds%,%artist% - %title%
%_filename_ext%
$loopend()
```
This is more or less the UTF-8 version of the playlist MP3Tag writes as M3U, that one would be exactly
```
$filename(m3u)#EXTM3U
$loop(%track%)#EXTINF:%_length_seconds%,%artist% - %title%
%_filename_ext%
$loopend()
```
Right so far? At least it looks like it generates the same M3Us as MP3Tag and the UTF-8 export works fine within Winamp and Foobar, but Windows Media Player does not recognise M3U8 at all.
BTW, I couldn't find any really useful information about the M3U8 format, just the regular stuff about M3U from [Winamp](http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=65772). OK, M3U8 is M3U with UTF-8, but what about the header #EXTM3U? Do I have to write #EXTM3U8 instead or is this obsolete now?
And is there any unicoded playlist I could export to, that works with at least the most important players on any platform?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/questions-about-m3u8-unicode-windows-media-player-stuff/5828/2 "2007-12-16T20:38:51Z")
The m3u8 format is not specified somewhere. It's supported by Mp3tag and foobar2000 and it's basically the same as M3U but encoded as UTF-8.
Regarding Unicode playlists you might have a look at [XSPF](http://www.xspf.org/). It seems to be supported by a lot of [applications](http://www.xspf.org/applications/).