Playlists gone after upgrade to 4.8.7.0

[kurtgschumacher 36]

I just update Emby on my Synology server to 4.8.7.0. Everything looked fine until I went to Playlists and it's empty. Why would this happen, and is there any way to get them back?

[Luke 42077]

Hi there, what version did you upgrade from?

[kurtgschumacher 36]

I don't remember exactly, it was a 4.7 release.

[Luke 42077]

OK, have you tried running a library scan?

[kurtgschumacher 36]

I did the upgrade Monday night. I have Emby set to do a scheduled library scan every night at 2 AM. It's showing it last ran 7 hours ago, so it's still working.

[Luke 42077]

Does the playlists section show up and is empty, or is it not showing at all?

[kurtgschumacher 36]

It shows up but it's empty.

[Luke 42077]

If you create a new playlist, does it show there?

[kurtgschumacher 36]

Yes

[kurtgschumacher 36]

Okay, I need to move on from this. Most of my playlists were music and I can recreate those easily. One of them was my movie watchlist, which had over 200 movies in it. I'll just have to start over on that one.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, thanks for the update. Apologies for the disruption.

[kurtgschumacher 36]

Disruption... heh. Updates deleting data is more than a "disruption". 

[dobby121289 0]

I just updated and ran into this issue myself. After a little digging I found that the playlist folder has changed from 'playlist' to 'userplaylist'.

The original playlists will be there if you want to recover them. Unfortunately you cannot just copy the playlist folders/files into the new folder as presumably the associated database? no longer has an entry for the playlists in the old folder structure. I just recreated the playlist with 1 random item and then overwrote the playlist.m3u file with the original,  restoring my playlist.

[kurtgschumacher 36]

That's good information, thanks. I hope I never have to use it again, LOL! Part of the problem was my playlists were still in XML format, and the Emby update didn't convert them to M3U.