m3u playlist on Windows showing up empty

[neilr8133]

Platform: Windows
Jellyfin version: 10.10.7 (I am unable to update to 10.11.{0--3} due to it crashing in my environment)

Problem description: I have .m3u files exported from MediaMonkey and Jellyfin can see that they exist, but when I try to open them they are blank.

What I've tried:

• Plaintext files with one song per line
  
• Replacing relative paths with absolute paths
  
• Checking case-sensitivity
  
• Checking filesystem permission
  
• Renaming to .strm
  
• Renaming to .m3u8
  
• Copying files into the "serverdata\playlist" folder (and subfolders)
  
• Searching Jellyfin
  • Documentation (filesystem layout, administration, etc.)
    
  • Forum post m3u playlists epmty when not my fix
    
  • Forum post Playlists completely fail to recognize
    
  • Forum post [Solved] m3u playlists were blank
    
  • Forum post Importing m3u Playlists
    
• Searching the Web
  • Reddit Playlist of videos or tv-series mixed content - import from M3U or similar file located in media library dirs
    
• ...and more
  
• Checking the console log
  

The only significant thing I see in the console log is messages like:

Code:

[WRN] [95] MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem: Unable to find linked item at path

which sounds a lot like issue #1907 but that deals with media files that have been moved, and these shouldn't have been added since I created the Collection (within the last few weeks) so that shouldn't be it.

I have spent at least a week working trying to get this working so if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it!


Thanks,
-Neil