M3U

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M3U

Summary

M3U is a playlist markup language[1]. M3U draws 424 Wikipedia views per month (playlist_markup_language category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • M3U's instance of is recorded as playlist markup language[3].
  • M3U's instance of is recorded as file format[4].
  • M3U's developer is recorded as Nullsoft[5].
  • M3U's subclass of is recorded as plain text[6].
  • M3U's has use is recorded as playlist[7].
  • M3U's publication date is recorded as +1996-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • M3U's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04l6b6[9].
  • M3U's media type is recorded as application/mpegurl[10].
  • M3U's media type is recorded as application/x-mpegurl[11].
  • M3U's media type is recorded as application/vnd.apple.mpegurl[12].
  • M3U's media type is recorded as audio/mpegurl[13].
  • M3U's media type is recorded as audio/x-mpegurl[14].
  • M3U's file extension is recorded as m3u[15].
  • M3U's file extension is recorded as m3u8[16].
  • M3U's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/m3u8[17].
  • M3U's different from is recorded as Extended M3U playlist (UTF-8)[18].
  • M3U's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as x-fmt/279[19].
  • M3U's icon is recorded as VLC m3u.png[20].

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Publication

M3U's publication date is recorded as +1996-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].

Why It Matters

M3U draws 424 Wikipedia views per month (playlist_markup_language category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] M3U has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] M3U is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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