Program to export or backup playlists in Winamp

Problem: I wanted to export all my music playlists in Winamp (over 60 of them) so that I could back them up and also transfer them easily to another media player, if i wanted to. Winamp stores its playlists under the Application Data folder (Application Data\Winamp\Plugins\ml) with random numbers (e.g. plf60C1). This isn't very useful.

There's a playlists.xml file that links the playlist to its title in Winamp. So I have just created a simple program that will link them up and copy them with a proper filename to a folder on the desktop. From here, you can back them up to some other location or use them with another music player.

Winamp Playlist Exporter 0.1
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* Winamp Playlist Exporter
* User: Gabriel Flores
* Date: 7/4/2009
* Url: http://tempvariable.blogspot.com/
* Version: 0.1


Usage:

Simply double click to run the program and that's it. A folder called exportedPlaylists will be created on your Desktop with all your Winamp playlists.

Notes:
This has only been tested on Winamp 5.54. It should work on Winamp 5.x version, but I'm not sure if it'll work on 2.x version. Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or higher.

The program assumes the playlists are located under the Application Data folder which is where Winamp stores them by default. If you'd like to specify the location of the playlists.xml file, the program accepts a parameter to a different file path.

c:/exportplaylists.exe "c:/myfolder/foldertwo/ml/"

For a very useful program for use with playlists, check out Listfix - Fix Broken Playlists

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