Can't delete video playlist

[PuffyToesToo 346]

I had this problem as well with this last release. I was finally able to get rid of it (or at least its appearance) by deleting all the items from the playlist. Onerous, but it worked.

[Luke 42078]

Are you logged in with the same emby user who created the playlist?

[Andy of the swamp 1]

Yes,  I am logged in as the same user.

 

The workaround suggested by PuffyToesToo worked. I manually deleted almost 200 tracks from the playlist and it now no longer appears (although I can still see it in Metadata Manager).

 

 

Aside - The same workaround does not work with Genres though.  I have a couple of empty Genres that I would like to delete but a) I don't see any way of doing this b ) They still display even when empty 

 

Thanks

Edited May 9, 2019 by Andy of the swamp

[hstamas 179]

This has been an ongoing issue for some time now:

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/67043-cant-delete-video-playlist/

[amarok 0]

hey @@Luke that's great!! Now I just need to delete these ghost playlists. Can you help with this topic as well?

[Luke 42078]

Yes that's possible too. Thanks.

[Luke 42078]

I've merged the topics. I'm unable to reproduce this. If you create a new playlist, does it happen with that? @@Happy2Play can you reproduce?

[abescalamis 84]

I think you should merge this topic too, it seems its also related.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/73025-weird-behaviour-with-playlist/&do=findComment&comment=740454

[amarok 0]

@@Luke any specific advice how to delete all these playlists:

 

they are not visible in the playlist section, until I add some tracks. Then they show up, but the option menu (pic below) does not allow me to delete them (I am Admin)

 

[Luke 42078]

Done, merged. Thanks.

[amarok 0]

@@Luke ok if you can not reproduce it, maybe you can help me to find the place, where emby is caching these playlists. Because I have manually deleted these playlists in the playlist folder, but they show up in emby in the metadata editor and in the "add to playlist" window. Is there an internal database or something similar? How does this work with emby?