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I love having full control over my music files, but one of the major pain points is moving between applications. Say I start using plex, get real comfy with my playlists, then one day I decide to try out Jellyfin. Sure, I still have all my music on there, but none of my playlists.

Is there some sorta solution I'm not aware of that allows for migration of playlists across platforms / applications?

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[–] jadedctrl@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you make your playlists in M3U format and put them somewhere in your music directory, they'll work on anything.

For example, I've got files like music/playlists/12-steps.m3u in mine, and they work flawlessly on VLC, MPD, and Jellyfin.

[–] strudel6242@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I exported a bunch of m3u's from MusicBee, and Jellyfin picked 'em up just fine. Thanks for the tip!

Seems like Plex is making things difficult though, not showing up at all. What a pain.

[–] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Anything" is a bit of an exaggeration. However, I wanted to mention m3u playlists as well, since it's one of the few (the only?) open, file-based solutions.

I use them and sync them with Syncthing.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Try opening a .m3u-file in a text editor. They're hilariously simple, which is probably why there only needs to be one solution...