Importing M3U Playlists

[wbravin]

Thank you for this

I know this is an old thread but I was running into a similar issue importing my m3u playlists into Jellyfin. As search kept sending me here I figured I would drop how I got it working for future folks to find. My version of Jellyfin is v10.8.13

I had created an m3u playlist from a folder of mp3s using the following command:


#! /bin/bash

ls -1 *.mp3 > playlist.m3u

I then had added the folder as a new library. Jellyfin saw the playlist no problem, but in Jellyfin the playlist was empty. Attempting to play the playlist anyway gave an error about not being able to play the format sent. To fix the issue, from Jellyfin, I first selected the playlist and went to "Edit Metadata" and locked all fields, then I selected "Refresh Metadata". After a minute or so the song list began to populate. From that point I was able to play the playlist fine. I'm not sure if locking the metadata fields was necessary, but I was poking around trying random stuff as my Google-Fu was failing me.

@wbravin - I don't know if this is of any help to you and the issue you had, and if not, I'm sorry for hijacking your thread.

Edit: Just tried it without locking the metadata. Worked fine. All that is required to solve the issue I was having  is to open the playlist within Jellyfin and then select "Refresh Metadata". You may need to refresh the page for the changes to show up.

THank you for this suggestion 

My issue is not creating a playlist (as i understand your message) My issue is importing existing M3U playlists created in Kodi and stored in a folder called "Music Playlist" on my NAS (truenas scale with jellyfin jail working fine BTW)

Again thank you all for all you time and help