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Playlist strange behaviour - Jolaru21 - 2025-08-01
Hi again,
I'm reopening this thread because the issue is still happening — playlists disappear immediately after Jellyfin performs a library scan.
The last thing I mentioned was that I was planning to test with a fresh install on another machine, but I wasn’t able to complete it properly since I’m not entirely sure how to migrate Jellyfin without losing any data. I’d like to preserve all users, watch history, configurations, and collections/library's.
Before opening a new post specifically about how to do a full Jellyfin-to-Jellyfin migration, I’d like to continue gathering info here to try and fix the root issue. If you need any logs or want me to test anything specific, just let me know and I’ll provide it.
This was the old posts: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-solved-playlist-disappear-right-after-library-scan / https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-collections-playlist-management
Quick summary:
- I’ve tried reinstalling multiple Jellyfin versions.
- The issue has been happening for about a year now.
- It’s being tracked on GitHub, but there’s no fix yet: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/12008
- The playlist file remains in the pc folder after a library scan, but Jellyfin no longer recognizes it.
- Permissions are correct, and everything else works perfectly.
- The "clean up collections and playlists" task is not the cause — I’ve already confirmed that.
Thanks in advance for any help!
RE: [Still happening] Playlists disappear right after library scan - Jolaru21 - 2025-08-01
I'm adding music now in my jellyfin server and I need this option working
.Creating m3u playlists manually seems to be working tho, does not disappear after library scan. But is not as simple as normal playlists, that every user can create through UI
RE: [Still happening] Playlists disappear right after library scan - Jolaru21 - 2025-08-04
Please, anyone has any idea what's happening and how can I fix it?
RE: [Still happening] Playlists disappear right after library scan - Jolaru21 - 2025-08-07
If the only way to fix it is to reinstall my entirely jellyfin setup, can I save somehow the users, without losing any data of them (movies and shows viewed, for example)?
RE: Playlists disappear right after library scan - Jolaru21 - 2025-08-13
Isn't there any dev or someone that can try to lead me to the right path? Please
RE: Playlist strange behaviour - Jolaru21 - 2025-08-20
Why is no one answering? Is it strange that this issue hasn’t had a reply, even though there’s a GitHub case open?
Maybe it will be fixed in the Jellyfin 10.11 update since the database is being reworked? THe reason that I mention the database is because I think that maybe something is weird with it. Can't reboot jellyfin server from UI too...
Sorry for being such a pain, but this is really important for me to have fixed.
In the meantime, I’m trying to copy everything to a Docker installation, but I’m learning from scratch.