Talk:M3U

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[edit] Acronym?

Does anyone know what "M3U" actually stands for as an acronym? ~ Irrel 19:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

That's an excellent question. I don't know. Putting your question to Google will probably only tell you stuff you already know.

My guess is as good as any, so here goes: maybe "M3" is just "MP3" with the "P" taken out, and maybe "U" stands for "union". Robert Happelberg 19:54, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

M3 is MP3, U is URL (It's the web location where the MP3 can be found.)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.73.200.130 (talk • contribs) 06:49, January 22, 2006(UTC).

The article previous cited this LockgerGnome article that says "M3U" stands for "MPEG Version 3.0 URL". As far as I can tell, that's at least partially wrong. M3U certainly doesn't refer to MPEG-3, a set of HDTV video codecs. Since Winamp specializes in MP3's, and MP3 itself stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, one would presume it stands for that instead. Maybe that's original research, but it seems pretty obvious. It would be nice to get a reference from winamp.com to back that up, but I don't think the LockerGnome reference is useful. --Interiot 21:44, 14 November 2006 (UTC)