As I stated earlier, the playlist is saved in the wrong format if one of the filenames included in the playlist contain special/accented characters like ö, ü, à, è, ã and so on. To be on the safe side, you should first rename these files, then run the scanner to get them re-recognized by kagu. (You'll be ok if you don't put those files in the playlist, but since you can't see the actual filenames in kagu but only tags, you'll have trouble pinpointing them) Playlists are saved in the Sounds directory (~/MyDocs/.sounds) and you can delete them using the builtin File Manager for now. Overwriting also works. Should have a delete playlist option by the next release. A scan's action is not relevant to an m3u file's contents. Scanner just searches and indexes certain directories (the "Sounds" dir and the mmc cards) against playlist (m3u) files, and supported song formats (mp3, ogg, and so on). It doesn't even read the m3u file contents. You had to edit globals.py because scanner doesn't look in the .kagu dir for content, as this dir is only used for the "current playlist" (saved when kagu exits and re-loaded on startup) and certain data files/cover art. Custom playlists are supposed to go in Sounds or in mmc cards, and scanner already scans for those. You don't have to run scanner if you saved the playlist in Kagu as it already records that information, but if you put different named (not saved from Kagu) playlist files you have to run a scan first. Speaking of, full scans are only necessary if you want "new cover art" to be downloaded, or if you edited one of the id3 tags and want the change recognized. Other than that don't run full scans, they're just too slow and unnecessary. Hope this clarifies things a bit.