m3u playlist on Windows showing up empty

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m3u playlist on Windows showing up empty - neilr8133 - 2025-12-05

Platform: Windows
Jellyfin version: 10.10.7 (I am unable to update to 10.11.{0--3} due to it crashing in my environment)

Problem description: I have .m3u files exported from MediaMonkey and Jellyfin can see that they exist, but when I try to open them they are blank.

What I've tried:

Plaintext files with one song per line
Replacing relative paths with absolute paths
Checking case-sensitivity
Checking filesystem permission
Renaming to .strm
Renaming to .m3u8
Copying files into the "serverdata\playlist" folder (and subfolders)
Searching Jellyfin
- Documentation (filesystem layout, administration, etc.)
- Forum post m3u playlists epmty when not my fix
- Forum post Playlists completely fail to recognize
- Forum post [Solved] m3u playlists were blank
- Forum post Importing m3u Playlists
Searching the Web
- Reddit Playlist of videos or tv-series mixed content - import from M3U or similar file located in media library dirs
...and more
Checking the console log

The only significant thing I see in the console log is messages like:

Code:
[WRN] [95] MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem: Unable to find linked item at path

which sounds a lot like issue #1907 but that deals with media files that have been moved, and these shouldn't have been added since I created the Collection (within the last few weeks) so that shouldn't be it.

I have spent at least a week working trying to get this working so if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks,
-Neil