Can't delete music playlists

[volcs0]

I have 130 playlists that show up in Jellyfin music. I also see them when I launch a client able to connect to Jellyfin (e.g., Feishin).

They are all empty. I have no idea how they got there in the first place.

I cannot figure out how to delete these. I've manually deleted them - both in the Jellyfin web app, Mac app, client apps - they appear to delete but then show up again.

I looked through my folder hierarchy and do not see any playlists there.

I am stumped. How can I get rid of these?

Edit:

There were a bunch of .m3u files in various music folders. I don't know how they got there. But I found all of them and deleted them - and the problem is gone. Now I see new playlists showing up in the /data/data/playlists folder where they belong.

[TheDreadPirate]

What OS is the server running? If you look at the metadata for the playlists, does it tell you where they are located?

[volcs0]

What OS is the server running?  If you look at the metadata for the playlists, does it tell you where they are located?

unRAID - running in a Docker container

I didn't know about the metadata!

Seems like there are a bunch of stray .m3u files spread out over my collection.
Jellyfin must be picking them up again each time it scans.
For some reason (permissions?) - JF cannot delete the playlist.

I will write a python script to find them and remove them. Hopefully that will do it.

Thanks for the help.