Your Limewire MP3 files may be saving as M3U because M3U is a playlist format that contains references to audio files rather than the actual audio data. When you download music, LimeWire might be creating a playlist file that points to the location of the MP3s instead of saving the MP3 files themselves. To resolve this, check your download settings or the file types you're downloading to ensure you're saving the actual audio files.
Short answer: You can't. mp3 is a music file format, m3u is a playlist file format. What this means is that m3u files are plain text files that contain a list of mp3 (or other music files) to be played. They are typically created by winamp or other media players. Have a look at http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html for a full description of the format of the m3u playlist.
An M3U file is a playlist file for maintaining a certain order of playing audio files, like MP3's. M3U's can also point a media player to an online streaming audio source. M3U's are the most popular format for playlist files other than .PLA files.
I'm not sure but I think it can
I think wpl and m3u are data files not actually songs carrying data about tracks e.g. song name.
An .m3u is a plain text file that lists sources for audio files (.mp3s or .pls audio streams) which can be played in audio playing software such as iTunes. To create a .m3u playlist open TextEdit and type in the sources - http://www.example.com/music.mp3 http://www.yourhost.com/sounds.mp3 http://www.example.com:8000/listen.pls etc. Save the file as a plain text file with the extension .m3u for example - playlist.m3u Opening the playlist.m3u in iTunes will play the files listed in the playlist.
A .m3u file is a playlist file - it does not contain any actual media. It simply serves as a pointer to several different media files. In order to open a .m3u file, all the media files that it points to must be in the location the file points to. Without having the actual file, it would not be possible to tell you which files need to be where. Assuming the media files being pointed to are in the correct location, media players such as Windows Media Player, Winamp and VLC Media Player should all be able to play them, assuming the file types of each file are supported by that player.
ok ,this was a big problem for me...but i have figured it out. ok ,to let you know when you download a song from limewire it is actually a m3u file not a mp3 file..... 1.to get around this you have to do a search on google for "itunes" and download it for free and put it onto your desktop. 2. once you have downloaded itunes , go back into limewire and select all the songs you would like and Enqeue them ...create a folder on your desktop and select "saveas" and put all those songs into that folder. all the song that you have selected are all m3u files. 3. once you have done that, open up itunes and in the top left you see "file" click on it and scroll down and select import.. import all the songs that you have saved to the folder to itunes, this will change all the songs from m3u to mp3 file..i know it sounds stupid but this was the only way i could get it to work. 4. once all the songs are in itunes , create another folder on your desktop so that you can transfer the songs from itunes to the new folder.. minimise itunes so that you can see the folder as well.. once in itunes high light all the songs you want, then drag the mp3 files into the new folder..this will allow you to put all the songs into your zen. 5. once you have completed transfering all the songs . close all icons. hook up your zen to your computer and make sure it is docked. click on the icon for your zen. look down and click on "add audio file" you should now look for the songs that you have put into folder from itunes, add the song ...this will now transfer all songs to your zen... it is a huge pain but its the only way i can get it to work good luck
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because different formats play of different machines for example a mp3 will work on almost Anything but a wml might not work on cd or mp3 players and only other computers and stuff like that and other file types like ogg only work for games