Update to server 4.6.7 has lost my playlists

[ScottBouch 6]

As above, is there any way to recover my playlists after the upgrade?

The playlists are still shown with 4x album art, however, no actual songs are listed within them.

Bit annoying as I had put together a mega Christmas playlist, and now have just 1 (busy) week to try and put it back together manually, unless there is a magic fix?

(Ubuntu 20.04, Emby Server 4.6.7)

Cheers, Scott.

Edited December 19, 2021 by ScottBouch

[ScottBouch 6]

Screen-shots...

All playlists from before the upgrade are still listed:

 

Samples of empty playlists, but note how the genre's are still shown as well as 4x album artworks, and the total play time:

 

Thanks, Scott.

Edited December 19, 2021 by ScottBouch

[Happy2Play 9780]

Is the path in the playlist.xml still correct for each item?

Playlist – Manual Migration : Emby

[ScottBouch 6]

Well, nothing else has changed, the media is still in the same place, I will go and check that xml info and feed back, thanks for the pointer.

Edited December 19, 2021 by ScottBouch

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, ScottBouch said:

Well, nothing else has changed, the media is still in the same place, I will go and check that xml info and feed back, thanks for the pointer.

Also as a test can you create a new playlist to see if it brings back existing playlists.

[ScottBouch 6]

Just followed the guidance, and the .xml files are present, and paths do align with the folders:

 

I will go ahead now and test with a new one as you suggest. Thanks for this help dude!

 

[ScottBouch 6]

Ok, sadly it failed the test.. .new playlist built ok, but old ones still missing their songs.

New playlist:

As the .xml files are still there, it may be something in how the updated Emby server is reading them?

I will check between the new Test one and an old one for any differences.

Are any details of the playlists held separately to the xml files, like in a database? ie: wondering how Emby can recall certain aspects of the playlists, just not the song list.

Cheers, Scott

 

[ScottBouch 6]

Ah, yes, the new test .xml is missing the Studios Shares and PlaylistMediaType tags:

<Studios>
    <Studio>.....</Studio>
</Studios>

....

  <Shares>
    <Share>
      <UserId>1</UserId>
      <CanEdit>true</CanEdit>
    </Share>
  </Shares>
  <PlaylistMediaType>Audio</PlaylistMediaType>

 

I'm going to back up one old playlist, edit these tags out of it and see if that helps.

[ScottBouch 6]

BINGO!

Yes, deleting the tags listed in my last post has fixed it!! Awesome!

 

Thanks again for the pointer!!

Cheers, Scott

[ScottBouch 6]

For anyone else reading this in the future - for the changes to actually take effect:

• On Ubuntu 20.04, I found the playlist files at: /var/lib/emby/data/playlists
• The following lines need to be removed from the playlist .xml files (sudo privileges are required).

<Studios>
    <Studio>...(also remove everything in between)...</Studio>
</Studios>

......(leave the songs in place)......

  <Shares>
    <Share>
      <UserId>1</UserId>
      <CanEdit>true</CanEdit>
    </Share>
  </Shares>
  <PlaylistMediaType>Audio</PlaylistMediaType>

• On the Emby home page, under My Media, and right click on Playlists icon image, select Scan Library Files, within a few seconds Emby will have read the  updated files and you're good to go.

Cheers, Scott

Edited December 20, 2021 by ScottBouch

[Happy2Play 9780]

If I had to guess it would be <Shares> as all/most of my playlists have <Studios> and <PlaylistMediaType>.  But it is hard to say.

There are a couple topics where users Playlists have disappeared but adding a playlist usually resolves the issue.