Help with m3u file migration - Windows to Linux (Docker)

[calbanese 1]

I am migrating from a Windows install to a Linux Docker install and everything is working apart from some of m3u playlists.  I didn't expect them to work right off the bat due to file locations, but even after updating the paths they mostly aren't working.  Sorry for the vagueness, but I am seeing quite a few different things. These are for local mp4/mkv files, not IPTV.

For my main admin account, I was unable to just edit the exist m3u, so I created a new playlist, then cut and pasted my old playlist (updating the new file paths) and re-saved i in the location that emby saved it in: "D:\docker_containers\emby\config\data\userplaylists\Time for Bed [playlist]\Time for Bed.m3u" (which maps to ./config/data/userplaylist/Time for Bed [playlist]\Time for Bed.m3u). In the log, I get the following: Saving playlist file /config/data/userplaylists/Time for Bed [playlist]/Time for Bed.m3u.  This works file.

If I go into another account however,  things get weird. 

On windows, the m3u files (multiple in this case) were saved in individual folders just like the above. For example: "C:\Users\milhouse\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\userplaylists\APRIL 2023 [playlist]\APRIL 2023.m3u"

I tried to just copy and rename and update, but that didn't work (Playlist showed up, but the icon was broken and there weren't any entries). Then I decided to add a file to that playlist.  This is where it got weird.  It added the file, but saved the m3u file to .\config\data•userplaylists•APRIL 2023 [playlist]•APRIL 2023.m3u.  So not in a playlists folder, just in my main config folder with bullets as separators. I then added the old entries, updated the paths and this eventually started working.  Oddly, though, this shows up in the logs as ./config/data\userplaylists\APRIL 2023 [playlist]\APRIL 2023.m3u. This is also what the emby interface shoes if I try to edit it, but thats not where the file is located. Anyway I have 10 more playlists so I decide to follow the first method - edigin an existing playlist and updating it manually in Notepad++. I do this for each, but emby doesn't see the changes/edits I made 0 instead they are all still blank.  So a few questions:

Where should playlists actually go on linux? in the userplaylists folder or saved with this "dot" notation?

Is there a way to force updates to m3u playlists? 

Are there any other ways to create m3u files?

Edited January 29 by calbanese
clarification

[Luke 42077]

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in the userplaylists folder

Hi, any playlists created from inside emby should go in here.

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Is there a way to force updates to m3u playlists? 

Hi, you just run a normal library scan.

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Are there any other ways to create m3u files?

Hi, if you had a music library, and your music folders also had some m3u playlists, then those are supported.