Can Plexamp read & use m3u playlist files? I have m3u’s for my entire music library by album. With Winamp I can load multiple m3U playlists into the same session, which is really nice. Can I do the same with Plexamp? Can Plexamp even read m3u files? Thank you,

Never could get it to take more than one entry. Tried short playlists (i.e. 3 entries), different encodings, file urls, anything I could think of. Most things came back with an internal server error. If I tried a 2 item playlist, and the first item pointed to a non existent file, I would get the se…

I’ll pass along to the dev, @nosaj72 ~ any chance we could get a sample playlist?

Here is the playlist. Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life This is the result: [image] I’m running server Version 1.13.0.5003 on Windows 10 professional.

Hey, dev here. Thanks for the sample that was breaking it. I have a fix in place that will be included in the next release (1.13.1).

Awesome! Can’t wait to check it out.

Is there any documentation on how this is supposed to work? Do I just need to put my m3u playlists in the root of my music directory?

Can anyone more in detail explain how to send this POST request to Plex? I’ve searched around but can’t figure it out.

There is no UI exposed for this yet. But you can use something like Postman to make a post to the server to run the command. Here is the URL I use to post http://{plexserver}:32400/playlists/upload?sectionID=37&path=P:\LosslessMusic\Playlists\PlaylistTest2.m3u&X-Plex-Token={PlexToken} {plexserver…

Thank you! I was on the right track, but with your example the import now works. (I had to change file type from .m3u8 to .m3u for it to work).

Can Plexamp read and use m3u playlists?

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nosaj72 May 14, 2018, 8:12pm 11

Just to report - upgraded to 1.13.1.5063 and this is now working as expected.

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