Open M3U files in your browser
The playlist music players save, IPTV services send and HLS streams are made of. See every entry right here, or drop it with its songs to play them in order. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your playlist opens as a row for each song, channel or stream, and the songs dropped with it play in its order.
- Dropped with its songs • They play in its order
- A row for each entry • Title, length, group and address
- HLS • Each stream's bandwidth, resolution and codecs
- Export • Save as CSV, Excel or JSON
About M3U
M3U is the playlist VLC, Winamp, foobar2000, MusicBee and iTunes save, and the list IPTV services send their channels in. An M3U8 is the same in UTF-8, and it's also what HLS, the way most video streams on the web, is made of: a playlist of a stream's qualities, each a playlist of its pieces.
It's text: a location on each line, a song's path or a stream's address. An extended M3U starts with #EXTM3U and puts an #EXTINF line before each entry with its length and title, IPTV lists add each channel's group and logo, and HLS playlists describe their streams and pieces with #EXT-X- tags.
Filepeek lists every entry with its title, length, group and address, an HLS master playlist's streams with their bandwidth, resolution and codecs, and a stream's pieces with their times and encryption. Drop the playlist with its songs, or the folder that holds them, and they play in its order.
M3U playlist
.m3u • .m3u8
Format
- MIME type
- audio/x-mpegurl
- Made by
- Fraunhofer IIS, then Winamp and Apple
Inside the file
- Holds
- Paths and web addresses
- Each entry
- Its length and title
- M3U8
- The same in UTF-8
- HLS
- Streams and their pieces
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens M3U and M3U8 playlists in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers download them or show them as text.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open M3U
- WindowsVLC, Winamp and foobar2000
- MacVLC and Music
- iPhone and iPadVLC for Mobile
- AndroidVLC and Poweramp
Questions
How do I play the songs in an M3U?
Drop the playlist together with its songs, or the folder that holds them all. The first song plays, and each one after it in the playlist's order.
Why won't my M3U play on another computer?
It holds only where the songs were, not the songs. A path like C:\Music\song.mp3 points at the computer it was made on, so the songs have to come along with it, under the same names.
What's in an M3U8 from a video site?
It's an HLS playlist: the stream at each quality, or the pieces of a few seconds each the video is cut into. Filepeek lists them with their bandwidth, resolution and times. The pieces themselves stay on the site's server.
Does Filepeek play my IPTV list's channels?
No. It lists every channel with its group and address, and an address opens in a new tab only after Filepeek asks. Nothing streams in the page.