Syncing Playlists Between Two Jellyfin Instances

[I-G-1-1]

If path of the media are exactly the same you could try to sync the content of "/var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists/" between the two istances.

The most easy way should be copy from istance A to istance B deleting istance B playlists.

For a more complex bidirectional sync maybe somenthing like "rclone bisync" could help.

First of all make backups of "/var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists/" of both istances to not loose any playlist while you try.

Then just try to use scp to copy "/var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists/" from istance A to B to see if the playlist still work. Keep in mind that each playlist include this line:


<OwnerUserId>[REDACTED USERID]</OwnerUserId>


so I think the 2 istances of Jellfyn should have the same "UserId" (not only the username, but the same userID).
If the "UserId" for each username are different between the 2 istances you could use somenthing like sed (in linux) to find and replace the UserId before move from an istance to another.