Location of Playlists

[wbravin]

Hello all

I am migrating from a Jellyfin app on Truenas to a Jellyfin installation on a proxmox lxc

i see the path that will host /var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists

How can i change this to U:\Jellyfin\playlists

Because i listen to music playlists a have numerous playlist. A huge investment of time is required to build and maintain them 

Every time i need to re-install Jellyfin be it because i need to reinstall Proxmox, Truenas Jellyfin due to corruption outages updates or because of my ignorance I must rebuild all the playlists.

I would like to avoid this

I have my playlist residing up on my NAS and when Jellyfin was an app in turenas this was easy.

Now that Jellyfin is installed in an LXC i do not know how i can copy al my playlists from my nas to the lxc installation

Yes i do now that everytime i reinstall jellyfin and that jellyfin attributed a UID to the playlist I need to edit the old uid of the old files  with the id of the new installation 

Can someone please tell if this can be done and if so how to do it

Thank you

[TheDreadPirate]

You can't use Windows paths inside of Linux. Are your playlists located on a samba share? Are they M3U playlists or are they playlists created in Jellyfin?

[wbravin]

Hi Thank you for your reply


Yes They are on my nas and they are samba shares. They were created in Jellyfin and on my nas they are located in /mnt/media/apps/jellyfin/data/Playlists

[TheDreadPirate]

You can just copy and paste those files to /var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists.

BUT only if the path to your actual media is identical since the playlist uses absolute paths. The location of the playlist itself doesn't matter. If the path to your media changed you will need to replace the path in the playlist file BEFORE you move your playlists into the new Jellyfin instance.

[wbravin]

Thank you for your response

yes i understand. MY issue was the difference of setting up Jellyfin Server as an app in truenas and as an LXC,

In the app when one specifies the path location of all the files the Jellyfin suggest a path however the pulldown menu all one to specify an existing path for the files and cache.

Why is this not possible in the LXC?

With regard of the playlist ownership 2 simple if then else statements is all that is required. Why have the developers not implemented this yes.

It would be simple to implement much more flexible regarding security and would offer several options for security

just a thought

[mscroggi]

Oh man this issue just bit me. Had a power failure last night.. When power came back on.. Jellyfin must have started before the data volumes were available and all of my playlists are empty. Ugh.

I disabled the cleanup on startup.. but dang it would have been nice if Jellyfin could have backed up the playlists before wacking all the contents.

[wbravin]

Sorry to hear this mate


This has happened many time to me because i live in an area where thunderstorms create havoc with all my sistem.

The bad this about Jellyfin playlists is that when one creates a playlist jellyfin add a UID specific for that jellyfin installation.


I raised this as an issue to jellyfin and they as far as i know did not resolve it. I had 65 Playlists the shortes one 15 minutes and the longest 19 hours. I was realy pssed.

In my case the has time this happens i edit the playlist in wordpad and change the uid to 0000000000. Jellyfin will load this -playlist

I then move the playlist to my nas and back it up from there

Sorry I could not help you more