Load playlist after startup action - error executing

English mAirList 8.x
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Hello,

I’m not sure if this is specific to Mairlist 8 or not as we’re making the jump from 5.3. In 5.3 we have an after startup action that just loads an m3u playlist - the playlist file just contains paths to audio files. Works fine.

The same m3u files fail to load as a startup action with Mairlist 8.0 - giving errors about “whitespace not allowed here” on the first few lines. The same m3u loads fine if done manually. I have sanitised the m3u files - they are UTF8 encoded, there is no hidden whitespace other than in directories and filenames. This is an example of the top of one file - this one fails on the last line shown here:

#EXTM3U
X:\Studio\Global\Global Station ID’s\Global On Demand 1.mp3
X:\Studio\Music\Brazillian Sampler CD from Bahia(Songlines#77)\10 Gelo Lleo e Paralso pra Quem Sebe Dancar.mp3
X:\Studio\Music\30 Real World at WOMAD\30 Real World at Womad CD2\02-Zawose & Brook _  Chilumi Kigumu _ Tricky Voices.mp3

I have also tried loading via an after startup execution script - but I’m having considerable difficulty getting any scripts to work at all, including those we use with Mairlist 5.3. But I understand a alot of chang has ahppened with scripting (we’re using Advanced edition under a trial license currently before we move our (already upgraded) licenses to the Mairlist 8 instances.

This is 8.0.6 Build 6033

When in debug mode a bugreport is created which I can provide

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I see one double whitespace before the name Chilumi. Maybe you might change that – just for a try.

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Thanks for the suggestion! That same playlist works fine on 5.3, and loads manually and plays fine on 8.0.6 - just won’t load as an after satrtup action. Here is the log of it playing that file when loaded manually:

{“Timestamp”:“2026-04-10T15:53:49.450”,“Level”:“Playlist”,“Message”:“Start: X:\Studio\Music\30 Real World at WOMAD\30 Real World at Womad CD2\02-Zawose & Brook _ Chilumi Kigumu _ Tricky Voices.mp3”}

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Yes, it is working in v5. You said that before. So leave it then.

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I did try removing the double space to see what would happen - no change in behaviour. Loading manually works but that one track fails to find the file (not surprising).

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Thank you. For you it might not be surprising. I, for one, just want to make sure.

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I have worked around this by using a script to load the playlists after startup. This works normally so it would appear that there is something different around using the load playlist action in v8 vs v5.3