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WPL (Windows Media Player Playlist) is a computer file format that stores multimedia
playlist A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general form, an audio playlist is simply a list of songs, but sometimes a loop. The term has sever ...
s. It is a proprietary file format used in
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"Windows Media Player multimedia file formats"
Article ID: 316992. Accessed April 2, 2007UpdateXP.co

Retrieved Dec 30, 2011 The elements of WPL files are represented in
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format. The top-level element, smil, specifies that the file's elements follow the SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) structure.Microsoft Corporatio
"Windows Media Playlist Elements Reference"
Accessed May 17, 2009 The file is saved with the "wpl"
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and its
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is ''application/vnd.ms-wpl''.


Example

Here is an example of a wpl file. Bach Organ Works


See also

; Other playlist file formats *
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- Windows media *
M3U M3U (''MP3 URL'' or Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator in full) is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. One common use of the M3U file format is creating a single-entry playlist file pointing to a st ...
- The most common playlist format * PLS - SHOUTcast * XSPF - Xiph.Org Foundation


References

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