I confused $/ with $\. Thank you for bringing that up. I am currently running under windows. I have used binmode, but it seems to add a record seperator after every print statement. Close approximation: 
# @playlist has lines with no newlines
my $playlist = undef;
$playlist .= "$_\n" for ( "PLP PLAYLIST\nVERSION 1.20\n\n",  @playlist
+);
open PLAYLIST, ">", 'playlist.plp' or die "Couldn't open playlist.plp:
+ $!";
print PLAYLIST "$_\x{00}" for (split //,  $playlist);

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This produces what I want EXCEPT for the newline CR-LF being lumped together.

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In reply to Re^2: CR-LF Newlines as 2 distinct characters by blogical
in thread CR-LF Newlines as 2 distinct characters by blogical

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