Music Playlists Disappeared

[SilverTiger46 8]

I have a folder with a bunch of M3U files.   This is listed in Emby Server "Playlist".  I has been working fine.  Today, I removed ONE song from ONE playlist and now playlists are not working.  I have no idea what I may have done.  This seems very simple.  The M3U files point to the correct songs.

[SilverTiger46 8]

I think the problem here was that for some reason Emby decided to name the playlists in the display using the first line in the M3U file if it's a "comment" line.  Since all of mine started with the same thing, it caused sorting to get really crazy.  The only way I could fix it was to remove all those comment lines (laborious!) and remove and recreate the playlist "library".  I couldn't make anything else work and could find no way in Emby to have it ignore the comment line. 

[SilverTiger46 8]

It would be great if Emby had the ability to ignore comments in M3U files; like a checkbox that says "ignore any comments".

[Luke 42079]

Hi, yea that’s strange. Maybe we should ignore it.

[SilverTiger46 8]

Well, this was the result of a previous fiasco where my Itunes database was corrupted.  I don't remember the details, but I had to recreate the playlists from the XML file which was intact using a utility that I found , and this is when the "title" line got created.  It seemed to work fine for some months, but somehow when I deleted ONE tune from ONE playlist that playlist got messed up.  Trying to fix that, I recreated the playlist library and now they were ALL messed up!  Then I went into the m3u files and removed the line from all of them, recreated it again and everything is working.  Sheesh!

FYI the line that caused the trouble (the first line) was 

#Playlist: 'xxxxxx' where xxxxxx us the name of the playlist followed by a bunch of other stuff.

I found out that evidently Itunes is now exporting playlists in "extended M3U" format which has a "#EXTINF:294,I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles" before each song (for example).  Emby has no trouble with this.  #PLAYLIST is a legal extended M3U command.  Best I can tell, there is no difference in the file extension.  I don't know if ignoring all the # lines would break something or not, but I doubt it since my files now have none of these lines (except for one) and they all work.

Probably more than you wanted to know...

[Luke 42079]

Thanks for the update. We'll take a look at it.