Multiple Video Playlist Issues

[piecesofme 1]

Hi,

I’ve been having a few issues with Emby since some of the updates over the last 18 months so I’ve been mostly using Plex. I really want to come back to Emby so trying to troubleshoot some of the issues going on.

I’ve been having multiple issues with Video Playlists that I can’t quite figure out. 

1) There are “Folder” Playlists that are showing up but are all empty. This is via web interface, AppleTV App, etc. Don’t know why they are there but empty. There are also “Genre” playlist folders that are there but are also all empty. I’ve also tried using Infuse player connected to Emby and the only Playlists that show up are the Folder playlists mentioned above, which are also empty on Infuse.

2) The only playlists that show up with media content in them are custom Playlists that I create. However, I’ve had issues with custom Playlists that I’ve created disappearing altogether or having the custom artwork go missing. This has improved over the last month or so but I still don’t know why it’s happened and I’m a little reticent to put in all the time/effort to create the Playlists if they might still disappear.

3) When I try to start playing media within a playlist by using either the Play/Pause button on the remote or using the long press>Play within the Playlist itself (both on AppleTV), the media will play till the end of that season/show but will not go ahead and move on to the next item in the playlist, if it’s not within that season/show. If I use the “Play button” in the Playlist itself, to start playing from the beginning, the Playlist behaves as expected and will continue playing the media (beyond the show/season). But I want/need to be able to start playback anywhere in the Playlist and have this same behavior. 

4) I’m giving some thought to using Infuse ongoing but I’m also having issues with how Playlists work with Emby on that app. No Playlists show up under Emby>Playlists under Infuse. However, if I create a Playlist within Infuse, it shows up in my Emby custom Playlists that already exist. I’d like my existing Playlists to show up. Is this possible? Are my settings not correct somehow? Since Infuse can add a Playlist to Emby, it seems it should also be able to read the Playlists that are already there.

Thanks in advance for any assistance. Hopefully, I can start fixing some of these issues and go back to Emby full time.  

System info: Primary playback devices are AppleTV 4K 2nd Gen & 3rd Gen (w/Ethernet). Emby is version 4.8.11.0 running on latest version of MacOS. But honestly, I’ve been having these issues since around the time of the 4.8.x.x initial release.

 

[Luke 39868]

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1) There are “Folder” Playlists that are showing up but are all empty. This is via web interface, AppleTV App, etc. Don’t know why they are there but empty. There are also “Genre” playlist folders that are there but are also all empty. I’ve also tried using Infuse player connected to Emby and the only Playlists that show up are the Folder playlists mentioned above, which are also empty on Infuse.

Hi there, can you please show us a specific example of what you mean? Thanks.

[piecesofme 1]

Hey Luke, thanks so much for responding. Sure, happy to give you some specific examples.. Here is a link with several screenshots: https://imgpile.com/p/imfaBiy

When I click on the “Playlist” link on the left of the web interface, I have three sections at the top/center: Playlist, Genre, Folders. Playlists is where the playlists that I manually create end up. Then there’s Genres which shows several genre folders, and then Folders, which shows several show folders. I’ve included screenshots that show into two of the Genre folders and two of the Folder folders. All of those are empty. I can’t tell where they are pulling from to get the empty Genre or Folder playlist folders. 

FWIW, I have these same three sections also come up on AppleTV and other Emby interfaces.

Edited April 6 by piecesofme
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[Luke 39868]

OK the Emby Playlists library shouldn't have a genres or folders tab.

Or is that a library you created and just called it Playlists?