============================== MPlay3List 1.0 By JF Software - Joshua Foster http://www.jfsoftware.net joshua_70448@ureach.com August 15, 2002 ============================== TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= * Introduction * Running MPlay3List * Potential Problems * How to Contact INTRODUCTION ============ MPlay3List 1.0 is an M3U playlist summary generator. This is the type of playlist commonly used with Winamp. MPlay3List creates an HTML document containing info about the songs, like artist, song name, genre, length, and file size, along with totals. Also, links to the playlist and songs are embedded so you can easily listen to one. RUNNING MPLAY3LIST ================== There are two ways of running MPlay3List: * The Start Menu icon Doing this will bring up a Windows Open File dialog box for you to select an M3U playlist file to summarize. Then, a Windows Save File dialog box will appear for you to save the HTML document. * The playlist's right-click menu (if installed) The program will start automatically, creating an HTML document of the same name and location as the playlist. To install/uninstall this option after Setup, click the "Toggle M3U Context Entry" icon in the MPlay3List Start Menu folder. Once the summarization is started, a window appears (titled "MPlay3List Progress") with a black progress bar. When the black bar reaches the right side, then the HTML document is finished. The created HTML document will open in your default browser for your viewing. POTENTIAL PROBLEMS ================== If your M3U playlist file does not have extended information (specifically, the song length and name), then MPlay3List will either give an error or create a blank HTML summary. If you use Winamp and get lengths for each song before saving the playlist, then you shouldn't have this problem. Each time you create a playlist summary using MPlay3List, the summary will open in your browser. Immediately after, MPlay3List will crash. I haven't been able to fix this bug yet, but it doesn't affect its output or your files. HOW TO CONTACT ============== Contact name: Joshua Foster Email: joshua_70448@ureach.com Webpage: http://www.jfsoftware.net