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I can't persuade WMP11 (11.0.5721.5145) to create non-UTF-8 WPL files whatever I do.


It's not WMP that creates the WPL files, it's StreetDeck. Try creating one by hand, encoded in windows-1252, WMP will play it. But if you save it in WMP, it will be converted to UTF-8. So this seems to be the general case rather than the case I mentioned, where filenames were added that can't be encoded in windows-1252.

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Basically I think WPL was Microsoft's attempt to fix codepage and escaping issues in their XML-like playlists after messing it up in ASX (try using filenames with "&" in).


in WPL files '&' needs to be escaped in html style (&). I take it that does not work in ASX?

Pim