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TheExterminator

If anyone is interested, I'm working on an app that uses the API to export the playlists in m3u format. Let me know if you're interested

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I wasn't forming the url correctly. If anyone wants to know what url worked, the url in the format:

 

http://embyurl:8096/emby/Items?format=json&Recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=Playlist&api_key=MYAPIKEY

 

gives you an object with all playlists.

 

I looped through each playlist in this object and retrieved all of the tracks for the current playlist by calling

 

http://embyurl:8096/emby/Playlists/<playlistid>/Items?Fields=Path&api_key=MYAPIKEY

 

I added Fields=Path because its needed to also include the full path to the track so it can be written to the m3u.

 

I actually finished my app and can now export my Emby playlists in m3u format which can be added to your music folder so it will be picked up as a playlist the next time that you scan your music library.

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I actually finished my app and can now export my Emby playlists in m3u format which can be added to your music folder so it will be picked up as a playlist the next time that you scan your music library.

 

:huh:  What am I missing?  If your playlists are in Emby already, why do they need to be exported so that they can be read in by the Emby library scan...?

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You might of missed my other post but the reason that I did this is because I have 2 playlists that for some reason are stored as XML, not m3u8 and I want to have them all as m3u8. I looked online but didn't find a reliable XML to m3u8 converter so I made my own tool to export the playlists as m3u8

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Truthfully when i have chance i would just like to deprecate our playlist xml and build them based on m3u8. Not sure when I will get to that though.

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TheExterminator

Well in the meantime, if anyone has an xml playlist, my app seems to work well at saving playlists as m3u so you can replace your xml playlist

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Newvalho

I know this is an old topic however @TheExterminator, is your xml to m3u conversion available for public usage.  I created a playlist within Emby and didn't realize it would save as XML and would like to convert to M3U

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