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I couldn't get any of the various scripts floating out there to work.

• Export iTunes Playlist to M3U
• Using Export Playlist to M3U with an Archos Jukebox
• things: iTunes2m3u update
• XML.com: Hacking iTunes

Specifically, I couldn't get any of them to convert my music collection to M3U for import into amaroK. Either the script didn't work, ran only on a Mac, didn't convert 8-bit filenames correctly, couldn't handle UTF-8 encoded track names, or all of the above. So I wrote my own Python script to do it.

My music resides on an NTFS partition that is obviously not mounted as C:/My Documents/My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music on my Linux partition. The script takes an option for automatically replacing the path to the Music Folder with an alternate path, e.g., /mnt/Music/ or something similar. It takes an iTunes XML file as input and writes the playlists to .m3u files.

• itunes2m3u.py