Playlists not deleting

[CChris 59]

HI all,
I've changed my whole Setup and replaced my existing synology installation with a custom built Linux (NAS)-Server.

Emby is running fine, but i've just noticed something, that I could not explain...

 

I've created several playlists.
Now, I wanted to delete these playlists again. - So, I've logged in with my "emby server admin" account - and started deleting the playlists.
This also worked well for most of the playlist - but for some of them, I do not have the option "delete Playlist" in their context menu.

 

Do you know, why this could be?
I have also tried to log in with another user - because I thought, it could be that I have created these playlists with another user... but the option isn't available for other users, too.

 

 

[Luke 42078]

This should be resolved for the next release although unfortunately it may not correct the situation for existing affected playlists.

[CChris 59]

Hi Luke, thanks

Is there any way to delete Rhode libraries by Manual editing of Something?

[Luke 42078]

If you edit the metadata on a playlist, does it show a path?

[CChris 59]

Hi I cannot see any path information in such a playlist.
But, I noticed, that the date added was showing 01.01.0001 ...

 

I've changed the date, but it didn't changed anything.
I have created another Playlist - and there, the date is shown correctly, and I do have the delete option here

[CChris 59]

I have checked the path /var/lib/emby/data/playlists -

 

root@emby-server:/var/lib/emby/data/playlists# ls
Batman Filme [playlist]     Leonard Nimoy [playlist]  Marvel MCU (Chronical Order) [playlist]  Spider-Man Filme [playlist]  William Shatner [playlist]
Bruce Greenwood [playlist]  Marc Wahlberg [playlist]  Michael Peña [playlist]                 Tom Hardy [playlist]         test2 [playlist]

 

and deleted everything from this path with

rm -R Batman\ Filme\ \[playlist\]/

...

 

After restarting emby, the playlist folder is now empty, but the playlists are still visible within the app.

And yes, I have seen the path for some of the playlists which I could delete....

[Luke 42078]

Ok so yes that's the issue i'm referring to that I don't think will happen anymore with the next release. Once that happens, we'll try to find a way to help you get those existing ones deleted.

[Ninko 78]

Any updates on this problem?

 

Thanks

[Luke 42078]

Please try to create a new playlist with emby server 4.2. Then to to delete it. this should no longer happen. Thanks.

[Ninko 78]

How do I remove a playlist already created though?

 

Thanks

[Luke 42078]

That could be tough but the best thing I can think of right now would be to temporarily rename the entire playlists parent folder. Then run a full scan to hopefully clear them out of the database. Then change the folder back and run another scan to restore your playlists. Please see if that helps.

 

Unfortunately it might not. If it doesn't, a quick and dirty workaround would be to remove all playlist items, because currently empty playlists become invisible.

 

We'll do a 4.2.1 update about a week from now, and if these suggestions don't help, then what I'll do is I'll add some special api that you can invoke in the browser address bar to do a one-time clearing of all of the bad ones.

 

Thanks.

[Ninko 78]

Removing all the items from the playlist seems to have made it disappear.

Hopefully it won't suddenly reappear if it's not actually deleted?

Thanks

[Luke 42078]

Make sure to run a full library scan and then I think you should be fine. Thanks.

[Ninko 78]

Wonderful.

Thanks

[CChris 59]

Hi @@Luke,

any update on this?

@@CChris

[CChris 59]

Hi all,
a short update from my side on this topic:

 

-> I have deleted all movies from the playlists, that I could not delete.
This caused emby, not to show them anymore.

 

Then, I have tried to edit the library.db by adding a path to these playlists - and created this path also on my server manually.
Unfortunately, this did not change anything... I've created a new Playlist with the same name than one of the "others" which I could not delete - and could see, that emby created another folder, called like the playlist, with an additional 1, since the original folder already existed.

 

Since this did not "recover" the Playlists as I thought, I just deleted the secondly created playlist through emby and then, deleted the other folders with rm -R

 

I wanted to check the library.db - and: surprisingly, I couldn't find any entry for the old playlists anymore....