Hello, Plex Devs! Just wanted to add a +1 to the request for Playlist sharing. Seems like a big task form what I understand of how Plex works, but would definitely love to be able to share playlist with other users, whether local or external, who have access to my library. Smart playlists for music being the key for my specific needs/wants/hopes. Thanks again for considering the request (and pay no attention to the fools above who don’t respect the amount of work any change truly is to a system of this size)!
Just another +1 for a feature that some time should have been put into long, long ago. I would rather have the ability to share a playlist with a friend or one of my children than to watch Ted Talk or some other random trash
It would be nice if we could get this in time for Christmas for background music at parties.
They’ve missed the past 4 Christmases. Maybe #5 is the magic one.
Welp. Found myself here after trying to create a Halloween playlist to share with a party host. ): Really wish there was a way to do this.
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Would be good to have this available, it has been way too long on the feature list now.
Thanks in advance for listening to your customers.
800 HUNDRED VOTES. 
again, 800 +400 in mind (from the old forum) … it’s 1200 votes now 
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your comments on this thread (not to mention the development team’s general disinterest in adding features that the community wants) have pretty much ensured that I will be actively looking for a Plex replacement and cancelling the automatic rebill on my Plex Pass immediately.
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for me, this request is done. i’ll use collections for this now. i’m done with those playlists.
collections
- allows to further filter
- has the “sharing”-feature.
- as well as any other feature one is expecting.
Just name them with a “.”(dot) in front and they’ll be on top.
@elan if this is so tricky , why not merge playlists with the collection feature and just name them differently? Only Option that needs to be added is to rearrange items - and voilá.
would be easier to maintain and the far better solution. For both, users and dev’s.
Understandable that you get upset, as customers can be painful, but that’s not the kind of response I like to see from staff.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, as I really thought the Plex team were user-focussed, but I think Emby is better suited to my personal use case; that is, I just want to run my server for my family (primarily photos) and not have “big media business” cluttering everything up.
In the context of personal media I don’t care about the latest news, Tidal or a bunch of other “partners”. I just need to access my family pictures and other media.
Thank you to the Plex team for the work they’ve done, and I wish them the best, but I think I will gradually move over to Emby.
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Okay, wow.
Just - wow.
As a big fan of plex, things like this blow me away. These are core features with huge demand, and they have been ignored for a very long time.
I’m building a new plex server, and the only way I can transition over my playlists is to use an unsupported plugin (webtools). Thank goodness only 2 lists will need to rebuilt manually.
So - I’m really taken aback at the lack of data management tools available for plex pass users. I look at Plex as a media management tool. I think many other users look at it that way too. And that is a huge strength. In a wold of netflix and apple pummeling us with content that we need to watch - I’d rather manage my own content.
So - please vote for better playlists, and I hope an export/import feature is given for power users at least that can format an input file.
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I see a lot of third party options that people have come up with over the 5 years to solve this… However, does any of them NOT require the user on the other end to do ANYTHING at all except all of the sudden they will see my hosted playlists?
Thanks for the help.
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Something still being considered? Hard keeping the family on one platform with so many alternatives…being able to share playlists is a huge draw toward Spotify. I can’t comment on the difficulty, but this certainly seems like something the users want, amirite?
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There are already two methods (Webtools [plugin], Playlist Manager [python script]) to accomplish this. Maybe use those methods to further show Plex that you want this feature integrated into Plex.
Look at how the kill stream and kill long paused streams features came to be. There was an undocumented way to kill only transcoded streams via a API call. This was then made into a python script which PlexPy/Tautulli could execute. Which became a popular tool. Then Plex added a webUI button to kill streams and updated the feature to allow for killing any stream type. Another python script was created in conjunction with Tautulli to kill streams that were paused for X amount of time. Then Plex added this feature into their Settings.
This all took a couple years to eventually get into the Plex service. I’m assuming that Plex is monitoring API calls and has reacted to the increase in the API calls for that feature. Likewise they may react to the increase in usage to the API calls used in the established methods to share playlists.
@snickers_1 would you like to include these methods into your OP for visibility?
Of all the features the Plex team spends it’s time on, this is one of those features that is so obvious and would make the app so much more enjoyable between shared libraries. It must be hard to implement, else I’d think they’d have done this one already.
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+1 and voted.
@Snickers_1
Click dots - Add to … Oh, collections isn’t there.
Can you add a mix of TV & Movies to collections?
