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Playlists completely fail to recognize. - angrybohr - 2024-04-13
Hey guys, I'm really stuck trying to figure out the tools around my jellyfin instance, any help would be appreciated.
When I connect to jellyfin, I'm able to see my playlists, but they're all empty, and I can't actually play them. It's really broken but this was my key feature so i can't go without it.
On the filesystem I have a music folder, and there are playlists in folders.
each one looks like this
<playlist name folder>/
<playlist name>.m3u
a.mp3
b.mp3
c.mp3
an example playlist m3u file looks like this;
Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper (Heartical Mix).mp3
Bibi Flash - Histoire d'1 soir (Bye bye les galères) (Version originale 1983).mp3
Elton John - Bennie And The Jets (Remastered 2014).mp3
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star.mp3
Van Halen - Jump (2015 Remaster).mp3
Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot.mp3
Earth, Wind & Fire - September.mp3
Jenny Owen Youngs - Wake Up.mp3
Weezer - Island In The Sun.mp3
Queen - You're My Best Friend (Remastered 2011).mp3
Toto - Africa.mp3
But all of my playlists completely fail to be recognized. i'm not sure what's going on.
machine details;
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Version: 10.8.13
Operating System: Linux
Architecture: X64
RE: Playlists completely fail to recognize. - angrybohr - 2024-04-13
Well, unfortunately my issue was solved after clicking refresh metadata on EACH playlist.
ugh.
thanks!
RE: Playlists completely fail to recognize. - mcarlton00 - 2024-04-13
In 10.8.x and earlier, the playlist scanning code requires absolute paths, not relative paths. So if your music library is mounted on your jellyfin server with a playlists directory like so:
/media/music/playlists/foo/foo.m3u, then all the songs inside of that m3u file should be listed as /media/music/playlists/foo/song.mp3.I believe this was (finally) changed for 10.9, but I don't remember for sure. Also have no idea why doing a manual refresh would have worked, as I thought that used the same underlying code.