New Application: Zune Playlist Converter

Jul 06, 2008 @ 02:15 am by jhazlett

I have a Zune. I don’t like the Zune software. I use Winamp to play all my music on my system. I created some playlists for my Zune that I wanted to also listen to in Winamp. I didn’t want to convert the playlist through Windows media player or perform any of the other cheesey hacks that are commonly used to convert the files. So I bring you… Zune Playlist Converter. Another original application by HazteK Software. For more information and a download, you can visit the information page, or you can download the application directly via this link: ZPL2M3U.zip. Zune Playlist Converter can convert a ZPL file into either a M3U file or PLS file, both of which are compatible with Winamp, along with many other players.

And here is a screenshot:

Zune Playlist Converter

Note: This application has been updated since this original post. It originally could only create m3u playlists, but can now create pls files as well. The new version is 1.0.0.2.

12 Comments »

  1. the link is not working for the zune converter app

    Comment by john — April 7, 2009 @ 6:26 am

  2. Thanks for making this applet. It works perfectly, and doesn’t even cause UAC to bring up a security check on Windows 7. Always nice when a downloaded program doesn’t do that. The only way I can think of how it could be better is if it defaulted to the Zune playlist folder. Much appreciated. BTW the name is perfect and exactly what I Googled to find such an app. Also someone blog about it here:- http://dcassman.blogspot.com/2009/05/zune-playlist-converter.html

    Comment by Nik Blackwell — July 26, 2009 @ 8:34 am

  3. Wonderful! Worked first try!!!

    Comment by Mr. Ected — September 22, 2009 @ 12:53 pm

  4. I believe there is a problem with non-latin characters.

    Comment by louis — April 8, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

  5. Great app. Between this for converting from ZPLs to M3Us and oddgravity’s Playlist Creator saving me from using Zune’s slow, clunky playlist editor, I’m set. :)

    Comment by Tylersonchik — June 26, 2010 @ 11:42 pm

  6. Thank you so much! God I have been looking for program like this forever! You are a God send!

    Comment by Travis — August 27, 2010 @ 7:24 am

  7. Thank you for an amazing app. Just what i need it

    Comment by Lare2 — October 14, 2010 @ 7:26 am

  8. Thanks for the help. I had been trying to figure out how to covert my zune play lists for days in order to have my squeezebox recognize them.

    You rock..and now so do I!

    Comment by l8zfish — January 15, 2011 @ 12:38 pm

  9. Thanks for this. Really appreciate your making this available for free.

    Comment by BillW — February 4, 2011 @ 6:55 pm

  10. Worked great. Thanks for taking the time to put it out here for everyone.

    Comment by hornswaggled — May 22, 2011 @ 8:05 pm

  11. Thanks for this – very useful. I use it to convert Zune playlists to a format that my Squeezebox understands, but both Zone and the Squeezebox store the music on the same location on the network and so the resulting m3u file does not work.

    It would be great if paths that contain network shares could be changed to remove the \\server bit and change the \ to / so that they are compatible with Squeezebox Server.

    Thanks

    Brian

    Comment by Brian — September 27, 2011 @ 7:44 am

  12. many thanks for this. I use a Windows phone and this is great to help with sending playlists for my wife’s Android phone.

    Comment by Dasugo — January 9, 2012 @ 6:16 am

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