How to move playlists between installs?

[markand 9]

My main installation is a QNAP NAS, but I'm going to be away for a number of months without the NAS, so I wanted to duplicate my setup on my Mac with the files on a USB drive. Unbelievably, I was able to get this migrated. For anyone interested, the main issue was that it seems that Emby stores references to the full path of media. On the QNAP for me the root is "/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA" and there is no "/share" on a Mac and you can't create one. What I did was to create a CACHEDEV1_DATA folder on my USB drive and then create a root level symlink to map /share to the USB drive using /etc/synthetic.conf. After that, it all works!

The only content type that seems like it will be difficult to keep in sync is playlists. Is there a way to move them between installs? The only idea I have is to copy the folder in the ProgramDir/data/playlists/[PlayListName] from one machine to another. However, I thought there might be a better way.

 

[Luke 42083]

@markand

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The only content type that seems like it will be difficult to keep in sync is playlists. Is there a way to move them between installs? The only idea I have is to copy the folder in the ProgramDir/data/playlists/[PlayListName] from one machine to another. However, I thought there might be a better way.

Hi, yes, try this and then run a library scan.

[markand 9]

Thank you, it worked!

What would be nice at some point is to have Playlists stored in a Library folder so one could manage it easier in terms of backup, archiving, etc. Tracking down where these are stored is not that easy.

I'm good though. I've successfully replicated my libraries/playlists between my QNAP and a Mac using a USB drive for storage.

[Luke 42083]

Thanks for following up.