Solution: 
#Add the header lines. Note extra undef for extra newline
unshift @playlist, ("PLP PLAYLIST", "VERSION 1.20", undef);

#Cheapo packing into two bytes
s/(.)/\1\x{00}/gc for @playlist;

#Explicit newlines added
$playlist = join "\x{0D}\x{00}\x{0A}\x{00}", @playlist;

open PLAYLIST, ">", 'playlist.plp' or die "Couldn't open playlist.plp:
+ $!";

#Hey perl, no funny stuff
binmode PLAYLIST;
$\ = undef;

print PLAYLIST $playlist;

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Bonus points if you can golf this down- I'm just glad it finally works :) Thanks again to those who pointed me in the right direction.

"One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for the myriad instances and applications?"
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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in thread CR-LF Newlines as 2 distinct characters by blogical

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