this drove me nuts for a while. I have a plex media server at home that houses all my video and audio stuff. there’s a playlist called favorites that was automatically created somehow. I didn’t know then how it got created, but now I do. The reason I care is that I built a mobile plex box for when my wife and i go on vacation 3 or 4 times a year, and i like to bring all my music and lots of video with us. (I used to be able to stream from home, but because of my vpn/router setup, plex is not available outside the house.) I found out that the favorites playlist is created by plexamp, not by plex. When you first fire up plexamp and it asks you if you want to create various playlists, there it is! yay! I wish it were easier to just copy the existing playlist to the mobile plex box, but having researched it, no thanks, way too much of a pita. anyway, hopefully this will solve the problem for someone else. the good part is that through some kind of magic, if the mobile plex box is up on the network, you can use that as the source, and over time, build another favorites playlist. i use plex-htpc installed on debian 12 boxes attached to each tv/stereo, and somehow, the music stored on the plex-mobile box plays through the stereo connected to any of the plex-htpc boxes (4 total). very cool. i find it useful to do an “all tracks random” every once in a while anyway, and i usually end up adding a bunch of songs to the favorites playlist that i missed when browsing though the library of music.
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