Playlists not deleting

[Guy 7]

I am currently not able to delete some of the playlists. There is simply no option to even attempt to delete.

 

 

In this example, the playlist "Test" has no delete option but also I noticed it has no path either.

 

 

This playlist named "Paths" can be deleted but it does have the directory path available.

 

 

It seems that playlists that do not have a path cannot be deleted. I am assuming these are virtual playlists. Is there any way I can remove these?

Edited January 27, 2019 by Guy

[Happy2Play 9780]

Does Test playlist appear in "\Emby-Server\programdata\data\playlists" folder?

[Guy 7]

It does not. I created the folder inside the playlists folder with the exact name and playlist.xml inside with the proper name to match the playlist title, refreshed the library, restarted emby server and still cannot delete it.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

I have seen a similar issue where a playlist would not update the xml file when adding new items - because the path was also missing

 

have seen this on windows and on a friends syno as well

 

So at some point emby fails to add the path to a playlist - not found what conditions cause this as yet

 

only way i found to fix it was to edit the database and add a path to the item - not something the average user can or should have to do

[Guy 7]

I have seen a similar issue where a playlist would not update the xml file when adding new items - because the path was also missing

 

have seen this on windows and on a friends syno as well

 

So at some point emby fails to add the path to a playlist - not found what conditions cause this as yet

 

only way i found to fix it was to edit the database and add a path to the item - not something the average user can or should have to do

 

Thank you for that information. I made a back up of my library.db and opened it up to edit in DB Browser. Found the item in the MediaItems table, filtered the Data field as "shares" and discovered the playlists with missing paths. I added the correct paths and restarted emby server. Problem fixed using this method but I shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to be able to add a path. It should be able to be deleted even if it does not have a path using the emby server.

 

Edited January 27, 2019 by Guy

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Great that you fixed your issue

 

and yes Luke needs to fix this

[Luke 42078]

Try creating a new playlist of the same name. Let me know what happens there. Thanks.

[Guy 7]

Try creating a new playlist of the same name. Let me know what happens there. Thanks.

 

2 of the 3 playlists were able to be deleted doing this method. The 3rd one named "Test" can still not be deleted even after recreating the playlist. 

 

[nague 5]

Try creating a new playlist of the same name. Let me know what happens there. Thanks.

I tried this method, there is now 2 playlists with the same name, and both can't be deleted.

Edited January 28, 2019 by nague

[Luke 42078]

That is really strange. How did you create the playlist?

[Happy2Play 9780]

I have only seen this happen once and was never able to reproduce it again.  And I believe I ended up just removing the entry in the database.

[nague 5]

That is really strange. How did you create the playlist?

I created playlists from a media => add to playlist => new playlist

[Luke 42078]

I assume you upgraded from 3.5 to 4.0, correct?

[nague 5]

I assume you upgraded from 3.5 to 4.0, correct?

Right 

[Luke 42078]

Did you ever try the beta and then roll back to stable?

[M1tch 2]

I can confirm I'm seeing the same - brand new OS and Emby install (macOS server) a few weeks ago.

Created 2 playlists by media => add to playlist => new playlist.

Couldn't delete either

 

Opened the DB as above added a path and the delete button returned.

 

I had already deleted the folder and xml itself from /Users/me/emby-server/data/playlists so just used /Users/me/emby-server/data/playlists/1 in the db.

[Luke 42078]

That's great info, thanks. I'll see if I can chase that down.

[silver_2000 3]

This topic is similar to the issue we are seeing - we have playlists with no path 

they are missing from the interface but still show up in the file system 

We have one play list that is in the web interface BUT not in the file system under /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/var/data/playlists

 

Im scared to have to edit the DB to try to fix these 

 

We tried creating new playlist and copying the XML content to it and that worked once but not the second time 

 

Any help would be great 

[DerrickM 23]

same issue here. I have a bunch of playlists that randomly showed up, but you can see they arent listed under data/playlists in the file explorer

Edited June 6, 2019 by mcfall.derrick

[DerrickM 23]

[Wondertje 10]

Not only do you have a bunch of extras but you also seem to be missing "Morgan" which is in the folder but not on Emby in that picture.

[DerrickM 23]

Huh, didn't even really notice that. Could it be from a different user. Or would it show all playlists from all users?

 

I got rid of some of those by adding music and then the delete option appeared, for others I had to fumble with the library.db file.

that is scary business.

[Ninko 78]

I'm having the exact same problem, I tried creating a new playlist with the same name hoping it would just override it but it didn't, now I have 2 playlists with the same name and no way to delete them.

Help please.

[Luke 42078]

We're looking into this, thanks for reporting.

[Ninko 78]

Thank you