Restoring a Broken Playlist with the Playlist Finder

The Playlist Finder app helps you quickly and easily repair a broken IPTV playlist. To restore, you need old M3U links, the Playlist Finder program itself, as well as the IPTV Checker application, which will find broken links for you.

Checking IPTV playlists for serviceability

The Playlist Finder application will help restore broken links. It is extremely simple and clear, but at the same time it has a lot of features, which will be enough for most users.
For the initial check of the performance of the playlist, you will need the free IPTV Checker 2.5 application – a powerful tool that helps to calculate m3u links that have already failed. He will help you do it in a couple of minutes. It can also sort links. Without the app, it would take more than one hour. Application features include:

• check .m3u, .m3u8 files and txt playlists on PC;
• sorting working or non-working sources, and saving them in an up-to-date playlist;
• rename, delete or play a channel in VLC directly from IPTV Checker.

The weight of the program is only a few megabytes. There is only one relative drawback – it is impossible to download the program in Russian and there is no crack for it either. The interface exists exclusively in English.

Download IPTV Checker App

Instruction:

1. Download IPTV Checker version 2.5 from the official website – https://absidev.com/2020/06/02/iptv-checker-update-version-2-5/
2. After downloading the archive, unpack it. If everything went well, a folder will appear as in the picture.

Menu interface decoding:

How to make a check?

You can check the playlist like this:

1. Add a playlist file via the “Open M3u8” button.
2. After the file is fully loaded, start the check by clicking on the “Check” button.
3. Wait for the end of the check. With a playlist of 150-200 links, it takes about 20 seconds (the time it takes to complete the check depends on the quality of the Internet used). In this example, 5 out of 211 channels failed.
4. Save non-working sources to an up-to-date playlist. To do this, change the channel sorting from All to Offline and then click “Save”.
5. Save the file in the location you need.

If you want to change the extension to .m3u, change the name of the created playlist (remove the number “8” from “M3u8” and the file extension will change automatically).

There is an alternative way to find broken links. More about it in this video:

Playlist recovery process with Playlist Finder

You can safely download the Playlist Finder program version 1.18 here – https://iptvmaster.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/playlistfinder_1_18.zip After installing the program, you need to prepare all the necessary elements: run playlistfinder.app.exe and take a non-working list playback. To restore a playlist:

1. Unpack the archive and open playlistfinder.app.exe
2. In the right corner of the “Playlist (Original)” line, click on the ellipsis.
3. Select a non-working playlist and click “Open”, or simply double-click on it.
4. Wait for the download, it takes a few seconds. This is what the Playlist Finder looks like with a broken playlist loaded.
5. Select the “Start search” button, then the search will start.
6. Wait for the end. The search can take from 5 minutes to 30 minutes. It depends on the playlist you want to resurrect.

Processing the results of the Playlist Finder application

The end result of the application is presented in the form of a table. For data processing:

1. Select the line where the “Info” column says “udpxy”.
2. Save the playlist by clicking on “Save as…”.
3. After saving, check the playlist for serviceability by opening it in the VLC media player. Open and turn on randomly 2-3 channels per sample. If they play normally, then all the other channels in the playlist should work as well.
4. If the channels are still faulty, then go back to step 1. Reselect the line with “udpxy”, save and check.

It often happens that the program finds several working playlists at once, and in order not to manually save each of them, there is a function “Multiple actions” (Multiple actions). At this point, select “Selected Ips” (Selected IP) and click “Save …”:
There is also a video instruction for working with the Playlist Finder:

Possible problems with the Playlist Finder and their solutions

One of the common problems is an error message when opening a non-working playlist. In order for everything to work, you need to delete the EPG and categories in the playlist. Also, the problem may be in the page addresses – you need to check if they are written in the correct format. There is a problem with starting the program. Error: “The nextafterf procedure entry point was not found in the DLL.” Solution: you need to download the file requested by the system from the Internet and locate it in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. The Playlist Finder is intuitive to use, free of charge and helps to quickly restore a broken IPTV playlist. Follow the instructions carefully and bring broken playlists to life with this app.