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I've made playlists (for a Star Wars party). They are basically: Trailer Trailer Trailer Movie In Emby Theater, I click Play All. The short trailers play. Then the playlist quits. I can manually select the movie to play. But it won't auto play-all. The movie is part of a Collection. The Trailers are in a different Library than the movie. Is this a known quirk? Is there a tip for creating playlists? If this isn't a known thing, let me know. When I have time (after my party) I'll post full details with log info. Thanks.

I have noticed this a few months ago but have ignored the issue. When I add an artist/album/song to a playlist new/old my entire music library is then added to the playlist This then slows down the server until I delete the playlist. This does not happen when adding music or movies. I have tested on chrome, firefox, and Emby for Android with the same results. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thank you.

I would like to see like to see TV channel type functionality similar to cytube. Where you can create a 'TV station' playlist from videos in your library and people can join in to watch the same stuff that everyone else is watching. Like cytube it doesn't have to be 100% in sync. On the surface it seems pretty simple, keep track of the current video in the playlist and where it would be in relationship to the start time. When a client connects start the client at that spot. When the video is done start the next one. If we could get that it would be great. I looked through the developer api's and I got pretty lost on how you could even start something like this. So it might not be as simple as the description. I think this would be a very good feature especially for premiere members since no other streaming platform I have seen has this kind of functionality.

Hi, I used the emby app after a few months now and found that to have video playing you need an in-app purchase now. I bought and found that there is no way to auto-play next videos in a playlist. I thought this feature was there when i last used the free version? I am missing something? there are no controls to skip to next or previous videos in the app's media player interface while these are available in the windows server. I tried skipping to the end of the video but the next video does not start playing. If so what does the playlist do? edit: seems same issue as already posted Auto Play Next Episode Not Working Since Update to 3.1.2 thanks

Can music playlists be created using the Emby web client or Kodi & be synced back & forth.. so the playlists are present on all instances of Kodi that are connected to the Emby Server? My initial testing is showing that they do not sync back & forth. Is there something I am missing or is this not an implemented feature?

Hi, Emby is really nice and I decided 2 weeks ago to buy a Premiere license to support the team. However, audio Playlist management could/should be greatly improved. Alternatively, as a newbie, maybe I missed something... Let me describe my situation: I mainly own music compilations, best-of and singles (old LP’s and EP’s recorded to mp3) + some albums. To avoid file duplication, I save only one copy of a song in my mp3 folder and use Playlists to “virtually” define Albums and Compilations (~500 Playlists currently). My mp3 are tagged and covers are embedded in the Tag. Each Playlist is named following typical rules (Artist – Album.m3u) and is associated with its cover (Artist – Album.jpg) Playlists are organized into meaningful folders: - Albums - Pop - Artist1-Album.m3u - Artist1-Album.jpg - Artist2-Album.m3u - Artist2-Album.jpg - …. - Rock - ….. - Compilations - 80’s - …. This worked quite well with TVIX or Logitech Squeezebox (yes I know, I’m a technology dinosaur!). Thus, to manage my music collection within Emby, some workaround and some tricks are required. Firstly, I wrote a small software in Access 2016 VBA (see topic https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/43369-m3u-playlists-batch-importing/). Now that my Playlists are imported within Emby, I would like to take the most of these lists. Unfortunately, Emby doesn’t provide a user-friendly GUI for playlists, neither using the web, mobile and theatre apps. For instance, there is no alphabetPicker to avoid browsing hundreds of playlists, no filter …. In my opinion, the playlists interface should have the same functionalities than the movie or music ones (with Artist - Album - Compilation - Genre menu for example). At least, the Playlist GUI should be similar to the directory browser, as exemplified inn the attached screenshots. Would it be possible to implement the movie/music GUI for playlists, instead of the current basic one ? If not, would it be possible to use the directory GUI and add Genre to the Filter menu (genre are auto-tagged by my Playlist importer) ? I hope that Emby developers can improve the Playlist view based on some of my proposals, or that someone could explain me how to change (if relevant) the playlists.html layout (under …\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\System\dashboard-ui ?) in order to implement some of these features. Regards. Laurent.

Hi, Emby is really fantastic (and that’s why I decided 2 weeks ago to buy a Premiere license to support the team), but in my opinion, Audio Playlist management could/should be greatly improved. But maybe that as a newbie, I missed something or my audio management strategy is inadequate : to avoid file duplication, I save only one copy of a song in my mp3 folder and use Playlists to “virtually” define Albums and Compilations (~500 Playlists currently). Thus, to manage my music collection within Emby, I needed first a tool to import my m3u playlists. A java app has been proposed by another forum member, but it only imports one m3u at a time. Thus, I decided to write a small software in Access 2016 VBA (Sorry, I'm don’t manage other programming languages and some databases functionality were required to deal with multiple users). The Access software and a short guide are attached. Please be understanding and not too critical, I’m not an expert ! The software was tested on 2 different computers running windows 8 or 10. It’s provided as is and I can’t ensure that it will run on all configurations… ​Hope this could help others... Regards. ​ m3u Playlist4Emby V0.zip

Good Morning! Ever since Emby Server was updated to 3.1.2 the auto play next episode feature has not been working. After an episode the Spinning Emby logo appears and spins indefinitely. It's like its failing to retrieve the next episode from the queue. The Server Dashboard shows the next episode direct playing, but being stuck at the --:--:-- timestamp. I've included screenshots of both of these. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

Greetings I'm using Emby server 3.1.1.0 on a windows 2016 VM. Clients connect via web interface via chrome, and iOS emby client. I'm in the process of evaluating Emby to replace my home Sonos setup. I'm currently using EMBY for Audio only, streaming to a Chromecast audio group of 2 speakers. The actual audio playback works fine, but I note the following (see below image) via the current emby iOS client/web interface on the playlist tab, it just shows as blank. I can go fwd/back in the playlist, but can't actually see the contents of the playlist, because i sometimes want to change the order the playlist, or remote upcoming items. Is this because i'm casting to a Chromecast audio group?

I have issues with sharing of playlists and files on the webserver via webclient. Sharing files or playlists via FB or other soc. networks doesn´t work for me. I don´t have troubles with sharing on madsonic and ampache, but in emby - no luck. In older versions of emby I got the link as a website, but without working navigation buttons. Now in the latest 3.0.7100 it says following message : Error (FileNotFoundException): Could not find file "/usr/lib/emby-server/bin/dashboard-ui/dlg1473857573378". 404 Right link does work : http://5.9.61.125:80...47fa60eea0e6832 Generated link doesnt work : http://5.9.61.125:80...lg1473857573378

On Android Mobile, from the home menu I click on Playlists, then Cabin, and now I don't even see a list of the movies that are included the playlist. But on the Nexus, the same playlist and user account shows 8 titles. And it's also working on webUI.

Hello, I have several folders in my Emby library, all separated by theme (Kids, family, Documentaries, etc). For some themes, I actually have two folders (e.g: Kids New, Kids Viewed). In Kodi directly, I can set playlists by path, so i can have one for new kids movies, and one for viewed, and then a "superlist" comprised of both playlists. The "superlist" becomes the menu item while the other lists become submenus. So... how do I do that with the Emby plugin running? I think the Emby video library is set as a node but I don't know how to combine two nodes into one Kodi playlist. I am using the Arctic: Zephyr skin and I see it has widgets, but I am not sure how to combine widgets into a list either. Thanks for any advice anyone can offer.

I created a music playlist on the Emby Server and it plays all the songs correctly on my Roku 3. However, after the first song finishes playing and the next song begins to play, the information (metadata) for the first song continues to be displayed. The first song information is displayed through the entire playlist (until the Roku screensaver comes on). Is there an easy fix to make the Roku display info for the song that is currently playing?

I'm having a bug with video stopping after the first video ends in a playlist. When the first video ends it pops out of the video screen and back to the list of videos, it seems like the video keeps playing but only audio is working so I'm not sure what's going on. I am choosing the play all option so its not that I have only clicked on the first video. Is anyone else getting this problem?

Please add a way to manually reorder playlists. I would like to create a Clone Wars playlist and reorder them in chronological order. I have been unable to figure this out either via the android app or the webui. Thanks for any help.

This is actually a feature request. Would it be possible to add in the playlist view, an indication of which item is currently being played by the web client? I can think about something like adding an icon next to the item in the playlist that is currently playing or even something more simpler like changing the row background color of the item. This way we can easily and visually see where we are in the playlist, what's coming next and what was playing before. Thanks!

Hi there, I'm no sure if I found a bug or is just a missuse case. If you stop playing a song from a playlist to jump to another one, then the web client will only play the new song and stop playing at the end of it, instead of continue playing the rest of the playlist. Repro steps: Create a music playlist with the "Instant Mix" feature for example (most of the time I'm using the "Instant Mix" feature since I love it). The playlist will start to play. Go to the playlist view and choose any other song from the list and clic on "Play" from the menu. Let the song play and the web client will stop playing at the end of the song and it will play the rest of the playlist. Shouldn't the web client continue playing the rest of the playlist? If this is not the case, would it be possible to add a "Play all from here" to the menu? Thanks!

Is it possible to create a music playlist on emby so that I can have continuous and/or looping playing of music in a folder. I playback on my Roku, but I wasn't sure where to post this question. Also, when I'm using music files on Emby; do I need to edit their audio file tags?

Apologies as I could not find a thread or info in the wiki. Is there a way to manually re-order a playlist with a specific order? I want to create a clone wars playlist and reorder them in chronological order. I have been unable to figure this out either via the android app or the webui. Thanks for any help. Woops - can this be moved to feature requests?

Hi, I don't know how to clearly explain this, but if I have accidentally put duplicates in my massive playlist the second instance of the duplicate will play the track below it in the list. If that makes sense. May be a hindrance when syncing with android.

i want to to stream music from a website is there a plugin to do so the file format is in .M3u & .pls formats i could do the program laucher but the requires me diggging out the keyboard and i much prefer usign my remore control to control my media experience i the Theature

What is the status of the video playlist capability? I see in the release notes for 1.78 report that video playlists are working, but I am using version 1.79 and can't get playlists to work. My workflow: - Create a video playlist with Media Browser server. All videos are "direct play" mp4. - The roku app finds the playlist. - When played, the first video plays through, then I get kicked out of the app. Does anyone else here have video playlists working for them?

Hello! I have a few questions, i hope someone can help me. I created playlists, but when i play them via the android app to my intel nuc, i don´t see a watched status afterwards. Is this normal or an configuration thing? And is there a possibility to automatically remove watched episodes from a playlist? Thanks in advance! Jhag

Hi, how do I get MBC3 to recognise a MPC-HC playlist (*.mpcpl) as a valid file? Thanks in advance, Pete

Hello all, This is my first venture into HTPC and into this community. Hello! I want to report on some issues I am having with playlists and the web interface on the same computer as the server - I haven't uploaded any logs in case I am being a noob and have missed something obvious: 1) A playlist category is not appearing anywhere - not on the home screen, and not in the menus. 2) I can add music tracks or an entire music album to a new playlist. However, I cannot see existing playlists in the slide out menu - I don't think playlists are being saved, and this might be affecting (1) above? 3) The only time I can see and play a playlist is when I add tracks to a new one. However, once I navigate away, I cannot get back to it - again, see (1). I am using Windows 8.1 x86, Media Browser v3.0.5464.40000, and have tested with IE 11 and Palemoon 24.7.2. I hope this information helps.