I know that I am a week late and slightly off topic. You probably want to read your file line-by-line rather than slurping the whole thing. Use $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARAROR. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use English;

my $mac_file = 
    '#EXTM3U'                            . "\N{CARRIAGE RETURN}" .
    '#EXTINF:547,Excerpt from the Binti' . "\N{CARRIAGE RETURN}" .
    'Excerpt from the Binti novella series by Nnedi Okorafor.mp3'. 
    "\N{CARRIAGE RETURN}"
;

open my $MAC_FH, '<', \$mac_file;
my @lines;
while (my $line = do{local $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = "\r";<$MAC_FH>}) 
+{
    #$line =~ tr/\r/\n/;
    push @lines, $line;
}
close $MAC_FH;

print "Line0: ", $lines[0], "\n";
print "Line1: ", $lines[1], "\n";
print "Line2: ", $lines[2], "\n";

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In reply to Re: Reading lines beginning with pound # ignored by BillKSmith
in thread Reading lines beginning with pound # ignored by slugger415

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