Any way to delete all playlists?

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While trying to get my itunes playlists into plex, I ended up with multiple copies of them. Now I have > 100 playlists. Is there a way to delete them all. Very tedious deleting one at a time!
Plus in the future when I change tracks in my itunes playlists and have plex re-read them, I want to first delete all of the exist ones.
I tried a couple of ideas from places like reddit but they didn’t work for me.
Thanks.

–Peter

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You can multi-select your playlists and then delete them in 1 go.

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Ah, except that in the browser view on my computer I only see a few playlists. I see them all when say using plexamp on my phone.

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Are you looking at the playlists tab of an individual library or the main Playlists entry in the sidebar? Plexamp is simply showing the playlists of your server – same as Plex Web… so those should be the same.

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Ah when I click on playlists on the left pane I only see a few. When I click on music in the left pane and then playlists on the top tab bar I see them all. Thanks!

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Um, sorry for being a noob but I don’t see how to multi-select them. Holding the left button of the mouse down while moving over the playlists highlights them but doesn’t give me the view you show…

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Hover your mouse over the 1st item. This will highlight the item and show a little circle in the top-left corner. Clicking this circle starts with the multi-selection.

You can then either pick more items one-by-one or hold down the Shift key and select the last item to select a range of items.

From https://support.plex.tv/articles/200484203-interface-overview/

Library Items

Depending on what you’re viewing, you might see a movie poster; photo; music album or artist; or a TV show, season, or episode. You can click on the item to open it or hover over the item to see additional options.

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In most (but not all) cases, you will be able to:

  1. Multi-select items (you can then perform actions on the set of items)
  2. Immediately play the item
  3. Edit the item
  4. Open additional options

Using the … button, you’ll see more actions available for the item. The available actions can vary based on the type of item as well as settings you’ve selected.

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Ah! That did it. Thanks again for the help!

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