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This issue does not reproduce with dev preview 4.

Closing this issue as per comment #2 from reporter.

Please add support for URL paths in m3us.
Tested on a Nexus One.

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Simon, This issue is about m3u files which contain links to websites, for example streaming radio. If you open one of the m3us in notepad and the paths don't start with "http" then you're reporting your problem on the wrong bug report.

Sorry, my comment was in the wrong thread, Ive started a new one.

How to play .m3u8 Video Playlists in Android 2.2

I verified this issue and still exists!
Reproduced on Android 2.3.3 (HTC MyTouch 4G)
Reproduced on Android 3.0.1 (Acer Iconia A500).

Also, my M3U list has HTTP in the beginning - but it doesn't help... :-(

Please, fix.

For example of m3u you can check http://www.propovednik.com/AI/m.m3u with has few links in it. Works fine in Windows Media Player, VLC, ..., but not on Android.

please support m3u on 2.2

Need this in Android, many of these streaming sites.

Yep, just had a project that needs this. Pronto please.

Please  support m3u in android 2.2 .It is neede in my app.

ipad, iphone & ipod touch can all play an m3u file by default right out of the box. Very useful when listening to online radio. However with android you must download a 3rd party app to listen to online radio

Even the 3rd-party apps do not seem to work with m3u.  It's unacceptable that we can't do this out of the box.  It's not a problem with any other Linux, at least with contemporary kernels.

On my galaxy s2 (android 2.3.3) and my Xoom (android 3.1) the m3u8 is working. Unfortunately my clients with older android versions are complaining.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (android 2.3.3) as well but .m3u playlists do not show up in the stock music player however they do show up in 3rd party music players (i.e. doubletwist), but I really want to use the stock player 'cause I love the interface and the layout as well as the audio enhancement options

I ran into this issue while trying to port my iOS app to Android. Im testing on my Droid X (2.3.3) , and this is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. I do not want users to download a 3rd party app, and the abilities of the stock media player are lacking / nonexistent when dealing with .m3u's. I hope that this is resolved soon, its a shame that Android applications are lacking functionality that other smartphones take for granted.

Having just plonked down a pile of money for an Android S2, I'm speechless to find that the resident media player cannot open playlist entries that are URLs.  Doesn't the U stand for Universal?  What are the Google people smoking?

It was surprising that this didn't work when I bought my Droid.  It's even more surprising that I still can't stream m3u playlists.

Guys! I'm deeply surprised with this issue! Is it so technically hard to implement such funtionality? Please, I want my Nexus S to play http://..../cahnels.m3u livestream!

Please add support for URL paths in m3us.
HTC Wildfire.

Trying it on Android 3.1 on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and it's not working. Looking for a fix as well, don't need to overload this thing with applications for m3u playlists.

I don't see why this is a big deal on Android, but for some reason it is. The M3U structure is simple, it's essentially a list of URLs to external MP3 files. However, when you click the M3U in the browser, it tries to launch and then tells me that it's an unsupported file type.

M3u files works flawlessly on the iPhone. I'd really like to believe that "Droid does" (as they advertise) and I don't want to hate on it too hard, but why isn't a simple M3U even supported?

Galaxy S (android 2.3)

M3u8 is more than a list of mp3 files. A list can contain a list. Selection is automatically based on bandwidth. The list may contain live streaming video with .ts files. See http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/networkinginternet/conceptual/streamingmediaguide/HTTPStreamingArchitecture/HTTPStreamingArchitecture.html for more details.

Currently opperating a internet radio station, and several of our listeners have android devices and are currently left out from mobile streaming.

Usually, Android stands for:
"can do much more than other smartphones, out-of-the-box"

but in this case it stands for:
"look like a moron as you can't figure out why the device doesn't play your frickin jukebox streams as it does on every other os, search the internet, fail, search the internet a couple more times failing, find this issue, facepalm, decide between these options:
- rely on third party apps you don't know will be around in a year (and btw figure out how to adress them via api cause it's not documented)
- trigger an intent that plays a single stream and generally sucks (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2869006/android-intent-for-http-mp3-stream-on-htc-incredible), rewrite your music library backend to avoid playlists AND rewrite the frontend to deal with it accordingly, jerry rig it all together
- rewrite the goddamn stock media player because it's dumb as horsepoo from 1993"

Honestly, i am dissappoint. The default media player supports streams, so wth doesn't it support them in M3Us with a decent naming and stuff? But now i understand better why people prefer the iPhone.

please please, add support for M3U with external link and also .PLS

another vote. I don't even get an error message trying to play m3u files from tin can jukebox on my samsung galaxy w, with droid 2.3. Sight, and there I was looking forward to a lifetime of streaming my music to my phone.

I just realized this ... you really can't play m3u playlists on Android out of the box!?!?  The world's oldest playlist technology?  The simplest?  It requires zero additional technology to get working ... just read the file, download the mp3 files and play them in order.

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People need to stop responding to this... the status is "new", no one at Google gives a shit and therefore it has no owner, and its been ignored since march 2010. They don't give a motherfuck about this feature. All they care about are making handsets with android. Ignoring this since 2010 means "fuck off, fuck you, we don't fucking care".

Amen. IMO this mentality is why Android is the new "crap OS" and nothing more than a cheap Symbian replacement.

Please add support for URL paths in m3us.
Tested on a Droid 2 (Android 2.3).

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files...
Tested on an ASUS Transformer Prime

please please, add support for M3U with external link and also .PLS

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files...

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files

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Please add support for URLs in M3U Files

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files. Support wmbr.org!

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files.

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files.

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files (Samsung Galaxy TAB 10.1)

add support for URLs in M3U Files

please add support for urls in m3us

add support for URLs in M3U Files

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files.

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files.

I also vote for that function!!!

Cuando estara listo

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files.

This is unacceptable for Android to not support m3u play list. please add support asap!

please add support for urls in m3us

please add support for m3u's. Most clients i'm running into are using CDN hosted streaming servers to display content. Iphone and Ipad do this flawlessly. Would love to see android catch up.

ServeStream (http://sourceforge.net/projects/servestream/) will play m3u files and it's open source.

please please please please please please please please please please please please add support for urls in m3u files.... please please please please....

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Hi,

Same thing like others, please make support of m3u with HTTP links.

I know that the music player can stream mp3s from the net, I have an app (a rainwave.cc app) that can pick a player (like the default android player) to listen to the stream, and it works fine.  But I have no way to feed a URL into a playlist in the music player.  Fix this already!

please make support of m3u with HTTP links (Galaxy S3)

I have a new LG Lucid running 2.3.6, and out of the box it was able to "Execute" an M3U generated by my website, where that M3U consisted solely of a set of HTTP URL's, one for each MP3 file.  But now, perhaps after an OS upgrade, or an update to the Music Player, I get the same issue.  VERY DISAPPOINTING.

Hm, I just un-starred this... whatever black magic caused my LG Lucid 2.3.6 to stop being able to play M3U's has been replaced by white magic: suddenly it's working again.  The conspiracy theorist in me says Verizon pushed a fix to my phone, but who knows...?

Same thing like others, please make support of m3u with HTTP links.

Support for HTTP references in M3U files as per the standard would be appreciated. Additionally making sure HTTP AUTH is supported. Currently using Jelly Bean on Nexus 7 surprised it is not supported. Isn't this effectively how video in HLS streams work with a UTF-8 version of m3u8 - shouldn't the intents take care of the audio based on mime-types?

im using. galaxy vibrant. some thing like others, please make support of m3u with HTTP links

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files (Galaxy A3)

STOP SENDING THIS SPAM TO ME!!!

Even my former blackberry could handle m3u playlists. I expected better from Andoid OS, which is why I made the switch. Please increase the priority for this bug.

No m3u support? Is this a licensing issue? Seems like the technical aspect wouldn't be difficult.

Please make support M3u via Http

please fix

WOW! this is seriously an issue that needs a vote? shouldn't this have been fixed before Android's initial release???

Surprised only 73 comments so far.  Tried this on the Droid X2 when it was new and went on to other things.  Now, got my Nexus 7 as well as got Eclipse set up for Android development and returned to this issue.  My website hands an m3u file of urls to the browser.  The browser opens a window to choose a player, but none seems to handle the file.  I can download a single mp3 and play it fine.  There must be a player that can read a list of urls and play them. Is this really an OS problem?

To: " jpaxt...@gmail.com, "
Application "Just Playlist" from Google Play,
should be able to correctly handle m3u playlists.
However, the Android system by itself seems to be unable to handle it.

Greetings,

Well, I can not get Just Playlists to recognize my playlist.

the browser on Nexus 7 causes an m3u file to be downloaded and then Android
shows me the installed players including Just Playlists and I select it,
but it does not find the file...suspect not looking in the right place, but
see no where to set it.

Paxton

Please devs, fix this.
It's a major hole in the OS.
I keep steering people to Android over iOS.
 This sort of thing is embarrasing when crappy iPhone does this seamlessly, and a far superior OS (Android) seems completely incapable of such a simple thing!
Why?

Please devs, fix this.
It's a major hole in the OS.
I keep steering people to Android over iOS.
 This sort of thing is embarrasing when crappy iPhone does this seamlessly, and a far superior OS (Android) seems completely incapable of such a simple thing!
Why?

Please add support for URLs in M3U Files.

Seriously. It's sad how iPhones can do this with ease.

It's extremely sad.
Can we have everyone who has starred or commented on this issue (#7028) to share their concerns on Twitter, Google+, Facebook... everywhere?!
Google is not listening.

Thank you.

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This issue is clearly not being fixed, as there are third party applications which have been developed instead of Google natively supporting M3U files.

Open the URI "code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7028" and then click on the star at the top left. After that you will no longer be notified when new comments are posted.

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If you want to "stop the spam" then go unsubscribe from (unstar) the bug
report and quit complaining.

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Please fix this :(

Fix it!

Please, fix :)

All my music is in m3u playlists. I visit the server on the LAN with my HTC and .... they don't work. I always tried to keep everything as simple as possible.

Yes, please fix this issue!!!

We need this fixed in order for Android to become a true alternative to iOs!!!

Thx

Please add support for this.
Thanks

Please fix this :C

please fix this as soon as possible.

Please fix it!

ServeStream is a free app in the Android Play Store.  You enter the http address for the M3U and the playlist pops up.  Click on the listed MP3 and it will play the file.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.servestream&hl=en

I use m3u playlists to differenciate actual full albums or proper playlists from "album" in tags. Instead of sorting through 4000 "albums" part of listed being single tracks, I would have half that count listed, with single tracks separated in one big playlist. No proper recognition of m3u (by the way are recognised in other windows and linux programs) is very disruptive.

Please fix (or add) proper support in music player and other related android apps.

Please fix!

We need this functionality for an app of ours.

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