Did you find a solution? I have the same problem. The Plex playlists get exported, but no new Playlists in Plex after a successful import.
I did not find the solution, sorry. I just stopped using Plex music and am waiting until it catches up with the functionality of other music players.
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Sad to see the slow or not existing progress in 2019 just ahmm 20 years after the invention of playlists.
Unfortunatelly i have bought a lifetime key before I digged into this and the worse alexa implementation of the german language.
Close to useless when I stopped in august or september.
- 1 User awaithing an import m3u feature.
Using AIMP until it happen. Come on Plex devs, what is it so hard to include such a basic feature, I would appreciate to use Plex for all my media needs.
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Weāre waiting on @elan
Heās got 3 more major U.S. holidays to stir up marketing hype.
Plex Amp as a:
Christmas gift
Happy New Year gift
Valentines Day gift
Beside marketing hype, youāre forgetting āmake major change right before >x< holiday that will bring people that never used the forum before to ask what the devs were thinkingā
I donāt even really care if itās Plexamp - I just want Plex to understand M3U in general. SO many playlists Iād import from 15+ years of music goodness.
I played music in Plex on my phone for the first time in (months/years?), and noticed a stereo graph replaced the progress bar.
I donāt need that. I hope my phone isnāt using more energy to fill it in than it would a progress bar.
My Plex is up and running, but I donāt use it at all. Because of this missing feature.
Just made a very bad experience with a different music service some days ago. Iāve lost the work of hundreds of hoursā¦
Iāll never accept a vendor lock in once more. The ability to properly backup / import / export / re-use the effort people spend in terms of meta information is essential.
Iāve updated my script (Plex Playlist Pusher) to include a full setup, and it should work better across Windows and Unix machines, if you tried it before and couldnāt get it to work maybe try again and it should be more beginner friendly!
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That looks awesome, if you dont have a song in your library that is in a m3u playlist will it add it from tidal? Cause I have a Tidal Playlist I exported to m3u and want to import it to plex and mix the items I have in my library and songs I dont yet have with tidal versions.
Can you mix your tidal library with a library of local files?
PPP can only look for Plex music from one library, so I would imagine it wouldnāt work with tidal but I donāt use it myself so not sure!
Was really hoping for Christmas 
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Iāve just spent a few days with PPP (pull request posted to @XDGFXās GitHub page). Iāve got it working well for porting my playlists from MediaMonkey (on Windows) into my Plex server thatās on Linux. Score!
Thank you @XDGFX !
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It took a while to get the pathing right but I have @XDGFX 's PPP working now and this is probably better than anything plex will come up with in terms of automation of syncing playlists inside and out of plex! One can only hope that if plex ever implements playlist importing/exporting via the UI they dont remove this api and render this tool useless!
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Has there been any progress on support for plex to import playlists?
Iāve tried using the post method, but all Iām getting is ā200 OKā returns but no results 
Iām going to try XDGFXās solution next.
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Would you mind sharing your variables JSON contents to let me know how you got this working? I too am trying to sync windows based m3us to a linux plex server!
Thanks a lot!
When you run for the first time a setup process will guide you through and create one automatically, alternatively thereās example-variables.json in the repo 
Yeah I just dont find the instructions very clear. (The wording in the instructions) I wanted somebody who got my exact use case working, to share their variables.json.
I have m3us and music library on windows, trying to import to a Linux Plex server.
In my instance, this does not work.
edit: I got it working. Seems I had to run the PPP script from the Linux side rather than on Windows.
@XDGFX - What should the paths look like in the āvariables.jsonā if I am running PPP on Windows?
Any luck with the post method or XDGFXās ppp? Iām in the same boat - ā200 OKā with postman, but no new playlists. Same thing wtih XDGFXās ppp - it looks like it should work, it downloads Plex playlist, looking at the temp files all the paths look good, but nothing uploads back to Plex.
Iāve gotten this to work partiallyā¦ Just made a m3u playlist with 240 lines of full path for each song already in Plex. Put the m3u file on the Plex server, used the http POST and pointed it to the dir the m3u playlist is in on the server. It works, thereās a playlist in Plex, but the odd thing is that only about 200 of the 240 songs are in the playlist. I canāt figure out whatās causing the issue. Thought it was odd characters like % or # in the directories but Iāve found missing songs that are on the server in the folders specified but for some reason were skipped and arenāt in the Plex playlist and thereās nothing odd about the directory path. Any ideas? I made the m3u file in notepad++. The only thing I can think of right now is that thereās some kinda hidden/non-visible character issue in my m3u file?
