How to Create a ShoutCast Playlist
Shoutcast is a popular Internet site that streams a multitude of Internet radio stations. You can create a playlist of Shoutcast stations to play in the Shoutcast player, or in the default media player of your choice, such as Windows Media Player (WMP) or WinAmp. Streaming Shoutcast stations have the file extension .pls and a Shoutcast playlist has the file extension .m3u. You can create a Shoutcast playlist using a text editor such as Notepad.
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Instructions
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Open Notepad.
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Type "#EXTM3U" (without quotes) as the first line in your new Notepad file.
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Type the following entry on the second line of the file.
#EXTINF:-1,Stream 1
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Type the hyperlink to the desired Shoutcast station, complete with "http://," in the third line of the text file, just under the "Stream 1" entry. This is the first entry in the Shoutcast playlist.
http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=4857&file=filename.pls
So far, your text file should look like this:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Stream 1
http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=4857&file=filename.pls
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Skip a line, then type the following entries on the fifth and sixth lines of the file. The hyperlink in the sixth line will become the second Shoutcast station in your playlist.
#EXTINF:-1,Stream 2
http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=34398
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Repeat the format for each entry and increase the "Stream" number by an increment of one for each entry, per the following example:
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,Stream 1
http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=4857&file=filename.pls
#EXTINF:-1,Stream 2
http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=34398
Type your desired Shoutcast stations to be bookmarked in the playlist.
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When finished, save the file. Click "File" on the Notepad toolbar and select "Save As" from the drop-down menu.
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Type your desired name for the playlist, along with the extension ".m3u." Place the file name and extension in quotation marks to force the renaming of the file extension to .m3u from .txt. The Shoutcast playlist is created.
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