beckfield 145 Posted June 23 Posted June 23 (edited) As you may have gathered by now, I have my music split into two libraries -- one for classical, and one for everything else (labeled "Popular Music"). In my Pop music library, I have one playlist that is an imported .m3u file (as opposed to playlists built within the Emby UI). In my classical library, I've created .m3u playlists for every multi-track work, such as symphonies or suites. So there are dozens of playlists in classical. All these .m3u files reside within the folders where the albums are stored. On my DLNA-connected stereo, there is a 'Playlists' menu item that is at the same level as the libraries, and there are 'Playlists' menu items within each library. When I open the Playlists item at the top level, I get a mixed list of all the playlists from both classical and pop libraries. This makes sense. When I go into either the classical or pop library and select 'Playlists,' I'm still getting the whole list of playlists from both libraries. Intuitively, I would expect to see only the pop playlists in the pop library, and only the classical playlists in the classical library. Is this within your control, or is this a limitation of DLNA? Quote This is roughly how the menu structure looks on the DLNA device: Popular Music Albums Album Artists Playlists -------------> Only Popular Music playlists expected Latest Collections Classical Music Albums Album Artists Playlists -------------> Only Classical Music playlists expected Latest Collections Playlists -----------------------> Mixed playlists from all libraries expected Audio books Albums Album Artists Playlists -------------> Only Audio book playlists expected Latest Collections Edited June 23 by beckfield
beckfield 145 Posted June 24 Author Posted June 24 The web app acts the way I am asking for: The Playlists item that is a sibling of Pop and Classical libraries shows all playlists from both libraries. The Playlists items from within either library only show playlists for that library. A detail that may or may not be useful: I have a soundtrack album in my Classical library (Lord of the Rings). This album includes a couple of tracks by Enya, and I have a playlist in the Pop library that has all tracks by Enya, which included the tracks from the LOTR album. So the Enya playlist was appearing in both libraries. When I removed the LOTR tracks from the Enya playlist, the Enya playlist disappeared from the Classical library playlists.
Solution Luke 40106 Posted June 25 Solution Posted June 25 Hi, pleaEmby.Dlna.zipse see if the attached update to the dlna plugin resolves it for you. Thanks.
beckfield 145 Posted June 25 Author Posted June 25 It does indeed. Thanks! One question, sort of related to all this: I found that the playlists that I've created within the Emby UI are not visible to DLNA devices. The only playlists I see are those defined by .m3u files that reside alongside my media files. Playlists created within the Emby UI are not stored there, though. They are stored at: /var/lib/emby/data/userplaylists In order to see these playlists on my DLNA devices, I've had to make symlinks within my music folder, linked to the actual playlists in /var/lib/emby/data... Is this the intended design? 1
Luke 40106 Posted June 27 Posted June 27 What user's library are you showing over dlna? It should match what you see in the web app when logging in as that user.
beckfield 145 Posted June 27 Author Posted June 27 Oh, that makes sense. I created a special user so I could hide the video libraries on DLNA, based on our past conversation. So I need to create playlists while signed in as that user. That didn't occur to me. 1
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