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delete playlist - frankmikalsen - 2024-04-02
Hi
Running Unraid 6.12.6 and Jellyfin linuxserver.
I managed to create a Playlist that i don't wont to have.
When I go into Metadata Manager and try to delete it when pressing the 3 dots I get this message:
Delete Item
Deleting this item will delete it from both the file system and your media library. Are you sure you wish to continue?
Is there another way to do this without deleting my files on the NAS?
The playlist won't play at all.
But single movies play without any problems.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Frank Mikalsen
RE: delete playlist - TheDreadPirate - 2024-04-02
It will not delete your files. All the delete messages are the same text regardless if it is a playlist, collection, or actual files.
RE: delete playlist - frankmikalsen - 2024-04-07
(2024-04-02, 05:54 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: It will not delete your files. All the delete messages are the same text regardless if it is a playlist, collection, or actual files.
Thank you so much.
Everything worked out perfect
RE: delete playlist - NeZZeR - 2025-08-12
Hello bumping this thread.
I have m3u's and other scattered all over my albums since that is how they are delivered and I really dont want to remove them.
When trying to delete a playlist i get error that jellyfin does not have write access which is strange since it should. However why would it need it to remove data inside it's own SQL - makes no sense to me. Pretty sure it tries to remove the m3u's.
Only workaround I found is to disable automatic rescans and running deletes in the SQL like so:
DELETE FROM TypedBaseItems
WHERE type = 'MediaBrowser.Controller.Playlists.Playlist'
AND path NOT LIKE '%AppDataPath%\playlists\%'
AND (
path LIKE '%.m3u' OR
path LIKE '%.pls' OR
path LIKE '%.wpl' OR
path LIKE '%.asx'
);
Excluding under Appdatapath to not kill my own playlists created in Jellyfin.
Could someone shed a light on this ,seems like a gigantic oversight. Should be a simple "Do not import playlists" checkbox in the library settings.
A possible fix is this plugin https://github.com/fdett/jellyfin-ignore but could not get it to work in the latest version of Jellyfin.
Plz fix
