SOLVED: playlists

[mackconsult]

Have playlists on jellyfin for my music database.  I also copy my music database to a microSD for my phone, and download the XML playlist from the jellyfin server.  Modify the playlist with python script for use in poweramp on my phone.

See the images attached, the sailing playlist has 210 tracks when viewed in jellyfin.  But when I download the XML file it only has 20 tracks, why would this be?

Any help greatly appreciated

[theguymadmax]

What do you mean by you downloaded the playlist? Any playlist created in Jellyfin should be in the Config\data\playlists folder.

[mackconsult]

I have several ubuntu machines, they all run webmin, webmin has a download utility

So I can download the playlists from the jellyfin server using this utility:

/var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists/rays_music/playlist.xml <- this one downloads fine has something like 620 tracks in it

/var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists/sailing/playlist.xml <- this one has 210 tracks in it on when viewed in jellyfin, but when I download it only end up with 20 tracks

Further information is that when I do a terminal into the jellyfin server and sudo nano the sailing/playlist, it only shows 20 tracks, but when the playlist is viewed in jellyfin there is 210 tracks

These are the only two playlists in jellyfin ....

[mackconsult]

What do you mean by you downloaded the playlist? Any playlist created in Jellyfin should be in the Config\data\playlists folder.

Hmmmm ... further I just noticed that my other playlist is also off on the tracks?????

The other playlist I downloaded from the jellyfin server shows 857 tracks, when on jellyfin there is showing 1,873 tracks .....

Any help greatly appreciated .....

[mackconsult]

What do you mean by you downloaded the playlist? Any playlist created in Jellyfin should be in the Config\data\playlists folder.

This installation is on ubuntu, so I use webmin to download the XML playlists from:

/var/lib/jellyfin/data/playlists

I have two playlists in jellyfin, "rays_music" and "sailing".

"rays_music" shows 1873 tracks in jellyfin, but when I download it and run my python script it says there is only 857 tracks

"sailing" shows 210 tracks in jellyfin, but when I download it and run my python script is says there is only 20 tracks

The python script changes the XML file to an m3u8 for use in poweramp on my android phone, which show the 857 and 20 tracks.

[mackconsult]

Okay I was searching in google and doing some reasearch.  I found something that says after version 10.9, playlist where migrated into an SQLlight datase.  This acrually aligns with my findings in ubuntu terminal.  Looking at the playlist XML files I can see know that they where last touched on october 18.

If some one can help me figure out how to extract my playlists that would be great.

Database Storage: Since Jellyfin 10.9, playlists are primarily managed via the SQLite database (jellyfin.db in the data directory) rather than just XML files.

[mackconsult]

Hey all so I created a custom solution for getting jellyfin playlists in poweramp on my phone.

https://github.com/mackconsult/playlist-.../tree/main

Its in python, and there are things you need to configure in the top of the file.  Also installed tailscale on my jellyfin server and my phone.  So if I have cell phone service or data service I just tailscale in to my jellyfin server and use the jellyfin app on my phone via the new IP address provided by tailscale.  The playlists in poweramp will be used when I don't have cell phone or data service, which is quite often as I am a delivery captain out on the ocean a lot.