m3u Copy

Just so you don’t add favorite songs to the list of playback items every time, audio players are able to create playlists, which are merely files containing the paths of songs, so that audio players simple read them from the list. To help out, m3u Copy is the type of tool which can help you copy songs to a custom location from an existing playlist.

On the bright side of things, the application can be launched as soon as download is done, because it’s not packed inside an installer. One the one hand, this means that you can easily carry it around on a USB flash drive in case you want to use it on other computers as well. On the other hand, registry entries are not modified during the process, so system stability is not affected.

As far as the visual design goes, the application keeps things simple, with a couple of fields which serve as input requirements, as well as a single button which initiates the process. Needless to say that the playlist file needs to be on your computer. You don’t have to use the application in parallel with an audio player.

Adding the playlist file can either be done through a drag and drop operation, or using the browse dialog. Sadly, you can only target one playlist at a time, which needs to be under the M3U file, thus pretty much limiting your possibilities.

What the application wants to do is to copy items inside the playlist to a location of choice. The process is pretty straightforward, with no other options. It would have been useful to choose to remove original files, or to create a new playlist.

All things considered, we can state that m3u Copy might not come with an advanced set of features, but it pretty much gets the job properly done. Sadly, there’s only one playlist format you can target, and copy from one file at a time.