fraenhawk 58 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Maybe I'm blind, but I created some playlists for my music today that I wanted to make available to my "Kids" user. They have access to the music library and I have no content rating parental controls turned on. Yet they don't have the Playlists node showing up anywhere in their interfaces like I do with my signon. As far as I can tell, playlists are universal for the server, not just per user, so why does playlists not show up anywhere. It's not in the library access tab to check off, and it's not in their Home Screen Settings like it is for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olywa123 46 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 (edited) Playlists are deffo per user. However there is a way to manually copy them from one user to another. All playlists will be stored on your server under ....AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\data\playlists, you could find the one you made in here, make a copy of the folder in the same location and open the playlist.xml in the copy with notepad. At the bottom of the playlist you will find the <UserId> tag. i.e <UserId>43c35b897dc345f88fbdc9c94a676710</UserId> You would need to edit this in the copy to be the user id you want to be able to view this playlist (you can check what this is either from another playlist that was created for that user or by going to your ...AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\config\users folder). Edited December 19, 2015 by Olywa123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 It is planned to add sharing to other users in the UI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraenhawk 58 Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 (edited) @@Luke is it the GUI portion of sharing that's coming in the future, or the backend changes to Emby aren't ready yet either? I ask because I don't mind some xml editing and I noticed your structure has: Shares Share Userid CanEdit Does Emby know what to do if I just add another Share node inside the Shares? Edited December 19, 2015 by fraenhawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 yes but it hasn't been fully tested so can't say it will work perfectly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraenhawk 58 Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 That's why I run beta builds I guess I'll report back how it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraenhawk 58 Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 Playlists are deffo per user. However there is a way to manually copy them from one user to another. All playlists will be stored on your server under ....AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\data\playlists, you could find the one you made in here, make a copy of the folder in the same location and open the playlist.xml in the copy with notepad. At the bottom of the playlist you will find the <UserId> tag. i.e <UserId>43c35b897dc345f88fbdc9c94a676710</UserId> You would need to edit this in the copy to be the user id you want to be able to view this playlist (you can check what this is either from another playlist that was created for that user or by going to your ...AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\config\users folder). I wound up having to make a playlist under the Kids signon. There was nothing in the users folder with the userid. The folder is named Kids and the only GUIDs contained inside the policy or config xml were related to folders and views associated with that account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraenhawk 58 Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 The good news: adding the extra share worked perfectly, now both accounts can see the playlisst and I don't have to copy them every time something changes. The bad news: setting the CanEdit value to false did nothing. Both accounts can still edit/delete the playlist. But this is still a great start and I trust my kids enough not to really mess anything up. Plus it's just a playlist, not the actual music files, and I can just backup those files if I really wanted to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraenhawk 58 Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 Just for fun, I tried removing the music library from their account to see what would happen. Interesting: the playlists still show up. They all say 0 minutes, so I thought "okay, it knows they don't have access to the individual files that make it up. That makes sense." However when clicking inside the playlist, I still see all the media with the times. If I click play on the playlist, nothing happens. If I click a song row, nothing happens. If I click the three-dot menu and click Play all from here, nothing happens. If I click the three-dot menu and click Play, the individual song plays. Seems like that's bypassing the user access controls. The Next/Previous track buttons down in the play bar don't work, just the play/pause/stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulLH 0 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I know this is an old post but is there any progress on this feature yet? I really love Emby and it is getting better and better, my only issue is Playlists. Let me explain my setup, atm I have setup 1 user called USERS this has all of our music playlists (which I love because we can play on fire tv which you can't on some other media centres) and only shows kids rated films and shows which is great but we have to login to another user to see films and series for over the rating of U for us. If the playlists could be shared to all users I could then make 2 accounts, 1. for the kids that can see all music playlists and 2. a user for us so we can see all contents but also see all playlists the same as the kids user. If it asked for a password for films over the U rating this wouldn't be such an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camerons 12 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) I'm a long time Plex user trying out Emby, and sharing playlists with other users is one feature I've wanted for a long time. I could not find a thread in the official Feature Request forum. Should I start one? Is this still in the works? Edited October 2, 2017 by camerons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Sure, you can start one, thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFeather 3 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 With the current version of Emby (Version 3.2.60.0), all of my playlists are visible for all users. They don't seem to be respecting the user masks. Is there a setting that could have been reverted or a way to restore the right user ID's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 With the current version of Emby (Version 3.2.60.0), all of my playlists are visible for all users. They don't seem to be respecting the user masks. Is there a setting that could have been reverted or a way to restore the right user ID's? Hi, if you are manually editing this in playlist xml files, what I can tell you is that we are not actively testing that, so at this particular time I can't really predict what side effects that will cause. We realize we need to improve our playlist management and user sharing features and that's something we are planning on for a future update. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFeather 3 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Hi, if you are manually editing this in playlist xml files, what I can tell you is that we are not actively testing that, so at this particular time I can't really predict what side effects that will cause. We realize we need to improve our playlist management and user sharing features and that's something we are planning on for a future update. Thanks ! I have not as of yet manually edited a playlist XML. My only change on disk is to upgrade Emby to 3.2.60, which caused all playlists to be shared among all users. I'm looking for a workaround to return per-user playlist controls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 @@DarkFeather, Very strange. can you please attach the xml from one of these playlists? thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFeather 3 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Here's the shortest playlist affected. playlist.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Very strange. I'm not able to reproduce this. What happens if you create a new playlist? How does that compare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFeather 3 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) Hey, Luke -- sorry for the delay. Creating new playlists results in playlists visible by all users. Example new playlist: https://ptpb.pw/htnD Looking at a hexedit of the user database, the user ID in there is for the creating user, and I don't see a share for the other user. Edited January 31, 2018 by DarkFeather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 That's very strange because I can't reproduce that. @@Happy2Play or @@FrostByte can you reproduce this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 (edited) That's very strange because I can't reproduce that. @@Happy2Play or @@FrostByte can you reproduce this? Sorry I just created a playlist in current beta and changed users and a different user could not see the newly created Playlist. Edited February 1, 2018 by Happy2Play 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostByte 5049 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 New playlist not visible by another user in house using beta server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Thanks guys. That's what I'm seeing as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedgekc 12 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 I am having the issue where playlists are shared with multiple users, too. 1. Log into a different account (wife's account) using the web interface on my computer (she has no playlists) 2. Create a new playlist 3. She can immediately see/delete all of my playlists. 4. I can also see/delete her playlists when I log back in. The UserIDs in the playlist files are different Server 3.2.70.0 in docker. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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