Windows Media Playlist

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audio

Windows Media Player Playlist is a file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is a proprietary file format used in Microsoft Windows Media Player versions 9-12.

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Extensions	`.wpl`
MIME types	`application/vnd.ms-wpl`
Signatures	`3c3f77706c2076657273696f6e3d22312e30223f3e` at byte 0 (Windows Media Playlist) `4d6963726f736f66742057696e646f7773204d6564696120506c61796572202d2d20` at byte 84
PRONOM	`fmt/589`
Wikidata	`Q2332937`

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Sources

From Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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