file command reports this playlist is Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CRLF line terminators

The regex for matching File and Title lines doesn't match the lines in this playlist, even though they look correct in the debug log.

Parsing line: File1=http://radio.mesh-server.com:8050

Data::Dump reports this line is really:
"\0F\0i\0l\0e\x001\0=\0h\0t\0t\0p\0:\0/\0/\0r\0a\0d\0i\0o\0.\0m\0e\0s\0h\0-\0s\0e\0r\0v\0e\0r\0.\0c\0o\0m\0:\x008\x000\x005\x000\0\0"