There are pending feature requests for the ability to export m3u playlists without the files. While we’re waiting, here’s a workaround for Windows. (Apologies if already discussed.)
Open playlist in roon.
Right click on a track to select it.
In the selection dropdown at the top left, click ‘select all.’
Click the three dot menu to the right, and click ‘export.’
In the Export popup, click the ‘Export to Excel’ tab.
Click the ‘Export to Excel’ button.
An .xls file will be placed on your desktop, and a file explorer window will open with the file highlighted.Double click on it to open the file in Excel or whatever spreadsheet you use.
Scroll over and click on the ‘Path’ column header to highlight the entire column.
Right click on the column header and click ‘copy.’
Open Notepad or your favorite text editor and create a new document.
Past the copied file names into the new document (Edit/Paste or CTL-V).Delete the first line with the ‘Path’ column heading.
Save the file with a .m3u extension, e.g. myplaylist.m3u,.
Bob’s your uncle. A lot simpler than it sounds. I have started using this technique to export playlists to use with other software for syncing to mobile.
(Note: Tidal and Qobuz tracks won’t be included in your playlist.)
Curiously enough, I do not have the “Export” option when I open a playlist (be it a Roon or a Tidal playlist). It is only present if I am viewing an Album. Thoughts?
hi @SKBubba. it is true that all the tracks are from tidal. but the playlist was created in the roon client, and it is not visible in the tidal app. in fact, that’s what i’m trying to do - to use roon to listen to my music, create playlists, and then keep them on tidal so i have access everywhere (including on my iphone when working out).
Weird. I tried with a mixed roon/qobuz playlist created in roon. I get the export option on Windows desktop. It outputs the track name, album, artist etc for all selected tracks, except the path is empty for qobuz tracks. Works the same for a roon playlist with only qobuz tracks. The only time I don’t see the export option is for qobuz created playlists.
The export option only appears for content that is from your Roon library. If you’ve added content to a playlist from outside of your library you will not have the Export option.
Great guide, you may also MusConv Tool to export your playlists, not only from m3u but from all the top streaming services including spotify, apple music etc.
If the playlist is made from TIDAL content in your library, you can export it. However, at this time, Roon cannot export content from outside of your library.
You may need to alter the file path format in the m3u playlist for it to be compatible with certain apps.
Some apps using the m3u playlist don’t like the file path format that Roon exports it in.
For example, I tried to play the exported playlists using Kodi and VLC on an Nvidia Shield TV Pro and it didn’t work. Playing the same playlists using VLC on a Windows PC did work.
I had to do a global “Replace All” using Word to remove the NAS name and subfolder.
For example:
\NAS1\Music\Pop\Artist - Album\Album - Title.flac
had to be changed to
\Pop\Artist - Album\Album - Title.flac
[Replace “\NAS1\Music” with “”]
Also, the location of the playlist file had to be in \NAS1\Music folder [and not a higher or lower folder] otherwise the music files will not be found. The presumption is the the folder with the music files [\NAS1\Music\Pop] is located in the same folder where the m3u playlist file is [\NAS1\Music].
All my files are located on a local NAS. I can’t export a m3u file? I am new user, very surprised not to find this basic feature. If I spend hours creating custom playlists, I won’t have an easy way to export the list?