When it comes to absolute paths versus relative paths, we recommend you use relative paths to avoid issues with missing playlists if the M3U is moved to another location.

Reference file paths that Roon can understand – if you have moved your media or your M3U file, or if you think M3U is being ignored by Roon, you should open the M3U in a text editor and confirm that the path for a given song matches the path for that track displayed in Roon.

Include tracks from the same watched folder (tracks from other watched folders will be ignored - tracks can be stored anywhere in the watched folder where the M3U is stored, but the contents of an M3U playlist cannot span multiple watched folders).

In order for an M3U to appear in Roon, it must: The documentation clearly states that this isn’t the way to go. I don’t know why you expect this to work in Roon. I essentially created a compilation of songs by putting them in a folder I don’t see any characters that fit that description, other than emoji characters… but the m3u files that are coming in have the same emoji characters as the ones that don’t come in, so that can’t be it. I know that Windows can choke at times on characters that *NIX based OSes are fine with, so throwing it out there. I used kid3 running on a Mac to create all of the m3u playlist files. My library is on a QNAP NAS running Linux based QOS. Is it possible that something is using a character that isn’t handled well by Windows? Nothing changes (same ones come in, same ones don’t). I also tried turning off “import playlists” in storage, saving, then going back and turning it on and saving. I used kid3 tag editor to create ALL of the m3u playlist files with the same exact options. When I open the m3u playlist files of one that works and one that doesn’t, everything appears to be the same (both just list the file names of the tracks and nothing else/extra.

Some of my m3u files in some of my folders get imported, while others don’t. I am having a similar issue, but I’m using relative paths and all of my m3u playlist files are within the folders where the music files are.

M3u file what is it