Creating mp3 Playlists that can be used on Android & Windows

[The Shad]

I've used VLC for years on my laptop and phone for movies etc, but recently started using it for music on my Android phone as well.
The problem I've found is that the playlists I have already created for my iPod and memory stick I use in the car (m3u type) aren't recognised by VLC.
I don't want to have to create the playlists again as there are quite a few and have a lot of tracks in them, plus it means editing each version I have (iPod, memory stick, VLC, etc) every time I need to add tracks, so, I sort of have 2 questions;

1. is there any way to convert my current playlists to work on my Android phone?
2. can they be saved and edited on my Windows 10 laptop?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[AzraelDD]

Hi there,

this may, or may not help you, but: Are your playlists written correctly for Linux / Android devices?
One problem I had in the past was the symbol for new folders in the path string: "/" vs. "\"

This is a Windows playlist:

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#EXTM3U #EXTINF:221,Audioslave - Cochise ..\Audioslave\(2002) Audioslave\01 Cochise.mp3 #EXTINF:277,Audioslave - Show Me How to Live ..\Audioslave\(2002) Audioslave\02 Show Me How to Live.mp3

This is a playlist that works on Android:

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#EXTM3U #EXTINF:221,Audioslave - Cochise ../Audioslave/(2002) Audioslave/01 Cochise.mp3 #EXTINF:277,Audioslave - Show Me How to Live ../Audioslave/(2002) Audioslave/02 Show Me How to Live.mp3

See the difference?

If you download the editor "Notepad++", you can open up all your m3u files simultaneously, and use "search and replace" to replace all slashes with the correct ones - in all open files at the same time. That's the fastest way to convert all your playlists.

[EodiV]

Not sure if this is a bug in VLC. If it is, a ticket should be opened at https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/.
I searched the existing tickets, but I can't tell if this is part of a known issue.