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and choose Notepad. Each line in the file de- “Country” folder which is also in the MP3Music
fines the location of a tune to be played, and folder. So when these four lines in a playlist are
comments can be added to the file because text encountered, first “Annie’s Song” will be played
lines that start with “#” are ignored. Any helpful and after that is finished, “Give Me One More
information can be put in the comment line. Shot” will be played. Fortunately, all the hard
Keep in mind, the tune file name used in the work of creating a playlist is done for you by the
playlist must be exactly the same (character for App that you are using to create and play your
character) as the tune file name in the tune da- playlists. WMP is especially easy to use be-
tabase. cause gathering your tunes for a playlist can be
done graphically by just dragging and dropping

your selections from the tune (music) database
Here are a few lines from a .m3u playlist: into a playlist area, and finally clicking “save
# John Denver list”, and then you are done. Now, all you have
to do is start the play list and sit back and enjoy
\MP3Music\PopMusic\John Denver - Annie’s the music.
Song.mp3

# Alabama in Country Folder
\MP3Music\Country\Alabama – Give Me One
More Shot.mp3 Author: Jim Cerny, Help Desk Support, Sarasota Tech-
nology Users Group, FL

www.thestug.org
The first line starts with “#”, so this is just a com- jimcerny123 (at) gmail.com
ment line and essentially nothing will be done.
The second line defines the location of a tune.
In this example, the tune is Annie’s Song and it
is by John Denver. (When you “rip” a song from
a CD you have choices as to how the tune file
will be named. I have chosen to title all of the
tunes in my Music database as “Artist” – “Tune
Title”. This allows me to see all of the tunes
from a particular artist in alphabetical order It can be embarrass-
when I look at the Music folders using Windows ing when your phone sounds off when you are
Explorer.) When the music player gets to this in a meeting or someplace quiet. You probably
line it will retrieve the file “John Denver – An- know about the sound “on – off” switch on the
nie’s Song.mp3” from the folder “PopMusic” and side of your phone, right? -- but the many other
start to play (process) it. Note that the options for sounds you have available can be
“PopMusic” folder is in the MP3Music folder surprising. Let’s take a look at a few of the
which is the name of the folder that holds all of most popular ones and when you would want
my tunes. “MP3Music” also holds folders for to use them.
many other music genres, such as “Country”,
“R&R”, “PreR&R”, “BigBands”, “Holiday”, “Jazz”,
“Classical”; you get the idea. So this line is like a On your iPhone, touch “Settings” and then
road map to where the tune can be found. The “Sounds & Haptics.” Haptics, for those of you
third line starts with “#” so, again, it’s a comment who are out-of-touch with some technical jar-
and nothing will happen. But the fourth line is gon, has to do with tactile sensations you feel
another tune to be selected. This tune is in the

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