[scott967]

My thought was to use an advanced setting to create m3u8 files.

I think a better option would be to drop creation of m3u files and just create m3u8 files on save.  That would mean that all existing playlists would still work but going forwards, any new playlists created inside kodi would be m3u8.  AS.xml has enough stuff in it already I think. 

That works for me, but I was thinking a use case would be to use the playlist in other programs that might expect m3u extension.  (I don't myself.)

scott s.
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