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Mar 17, 2015 - 8:29 AM
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The Thing
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Can anyone tell me how to listen to the ".m3u" file format in the Chrome browser?
Intrada seems to be the only soundtrack label that I can't play their samples using Chrome, so when I'm on my PC, I have to load it in Internet Explorer, which then fires up the samples in Windows Media Player (as expected). But the ".m3u" in Chrome brings up a dialog box for me to save the file to the PC, which is presumably because it doesn't know what program to use to play the sample.
That's the only thing I don't like about Chrome, is that a lot of the functionality that I was used to in I.E. seems to only be available in Chrome if you know what you're doing and start looking for plug-ins and extensions etc., which doesn't seem to be very dumbed-down to cater for most users like everything else is these days. 
Now, before you all give me an easy solution to this for my PC, the main problem (for me) with Intrada's sound samples is that I can't listen to them at all on my Android tablet, because I don't have an alternative like Internet Explorer to use on it. The other sites work fine, as the browser switches to the black "media player" screen which is built-in to Chrome. But ".m3u" is an unrecognisable file format on my tablet (and PC).
I just thought I'd mention it now, since I followed the "Warlock" link to the Intrada page in Chrome, but forgot I can't listen to the samples, so I had to load up I.E. and navigate to it myself.
Don't worry, I didn't throw a temper tantrum, but it's just mildly annoying.
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If I'm correct, an m3u file is not a music file per se but a "play list" file: it's a very small file that contains no music itself but 'points' the player at where it needs to go to stream one or more tracks.
In my experience Windows Media Player understands m3u just fine as does VLC but the *standard* music players on Android devices don't.
Cheers
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If you have VLC, iTunes, or WinAmp installed you can easily have the samples auto-play when you click the links in Chromeon a PC. If it's not working you just have to set it up right.
I've honestly never tried to play an m3u file on an android device, but it sounds like installing VLC there too is what you want to do.
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I can't speak for Intrada, but to be honest I doubt the use of the m3u file was to stop people right clicking and downloading.
It's just that with the m3u file, you can click once and play all tracks. Otherwise you'd have to download them all individually.
It was probably introduced to make life easier rather than prevent anything.
Just get VLC on your Android devices and you'll be cool for cats. (Windows devices should have no problem as Media Player is cool with m3u.)
Cheers
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The problem is nothing to do with Chrome. It never was.
When you click on a file in ANY browser, the browser pulls the file and hands it off to whatever program is set up on your system to open that file type. If no specific m3u file association has been set up, then as m3u is a music related file type, Chrome will simply pass it off to whatever the default music player is.
If the program is passes it off to can't deal with m3u, that's not a Chrome issue. Either you haven't got a player that works with m3u or your system isn't set up to choose the right program for that particular file type.
Cheers
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The problem is nothing to do with Chrome. It never was.
Surely it must somehow be browser related since Chrome only offers you the option to download the m3u file but in another browser, such as Opera, clicking on a track opens a new tab in the browser and plays the track in the browser.
It seems like Chrome doesn't support playing these audio files.
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