I'm trying to get my playlists from Winamp over to Ubuntu into AmaroK. I saved them as .m3u and them imported them into AmaroK but for some weird reason every single playlist item has a backslash in the file's location instead of a forward slash e.g.

My Music/311\Amber.mp3

So I can't play any of the songs on the playlist because AmaroK gives me a "Local file does not exist." message. The playlists work fine in Windows, and my collection itself works. It may have to do with the fact that all of my music is on a different partition.

it might be because windows uses backslashes in path names. Not sure if there's a way to convert them easily, or whether you'll have to run some command-line magic over your playlists to replace all \ with /. (or use a text editor and do it manually). Also check in winamp - there may be a way to save the playlists in different formats.

I opened the playlist in a text editor and replaced all of the backslashes with forward slashes... and it worked! I guess it was Winamp's fault for saving it weird then.