# Creating playists

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/creating-playists/646946>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** playlists\
**Created:** [October 25, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/creating-playists/646946 "2020-10-25T15:34:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![busta999](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/busta999/32/214_2.png) [@busta999](https://forums.plex.tv/u/busta999)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/creating-playists/646946/1 "2020-10-25T15:34:12Z")

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Getting very frustrated with Plex on Playlists - especially as I love PlexAmp

So the iTunes import just dies

So tried creating playlists from the Music Lib - Save as Smart List - which does not actually save as the Playlist ‘library’ only has Movies in it and all th ePlaylists I am saving are not accessible

That along with not being able to import iTunes playlists or even M3us is driving me nuts right now and forcing me back to iTunes - damn it shouldn’t be this hard…

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**Author:** ![pshanew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pshanew/32/160555_2.png) [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/creating-playists/646946/2 "2020-10-25T16:21:38Z")

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> [@busta999](#):
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> So tried creating playlists from the Music Lib - Save as Smart List - which does not actually save as the Playlist ‘library’ only has Movies in it and all th ePlaylists I am saving are not accessible

I’ve found that to get new playlists to display, I have to refresh the client view. Until I do that, it appears as though the playlist wasn’t saved. This only seems to be the case for the creation of the _first_ playlist of a given type (music, movie, TV). After the creation of the first playlist and client refresh, subsequently created playlists display immediately.

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**Author:** ![busta999](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/busta999/32/214_2.png) [@busta999](https://forums.plex.tv/u/busta999)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/creating-playists/646946/3 "2020-10-25T16:37:29Z")

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Ha you are right - AWESOME thanks for identifying how to get around a Plex bug!!!

Now to work out how to get Plex to import iTunes or M3U playlists.

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**Author:** ![pshanew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pshanew/32/160555_2.png) [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/creating-playists/646946/4 "2020-10-25T16:54:52Z")

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No problem, glad it worked.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/creating-playists/646946/5 "2021-01-23T16:54:53Z")

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