Windows Media Playlist

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File Format
Name Windows Media Playlist
Ontology
Extension(s) .wpl
PRONOM fmt/589
Released ca. 2001

The Windows Media Playlist format stores playlist information in versions 9-12[1] of Windows Media Player, which stretches from late versions of Windows 98 to Windows Vista[2] (after which Windows Media Player itself was discontinued[3]), but mostly overlaps with the widely-used Windows XP. Windows Media Playlists are based on the SMIL standard, which is itself based on XML.

See also M3U and ASX, which Windows Media Player could write[4] and perhaps read.

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Software

  • Windows Media Player, included with the relevant Windows copies
  • The "Windows Media Playlist Generator" by Brad Huggins

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Also see the references.

References

  1. Wikipedia:Windows Media Player Playlist
  2. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/190990/how-to-determine-the-version-of-windows-media-player
  3. Wikipedia:Windows Media Player see lede
  4. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/media/web-playlists/using-windows-media-player-playlist-files-in-web-playlists → Saving WPL Playlist Files as ASX Playlist Files in Windows Media Player → Step 3 → Screenshot
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