How to move playlists?

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I initially set up a Plex Media Server on my desktop PC. Using the Plex app on my iPhone, I created some playlists. Now I have set up a new Plex Media Server on my (QNAP) NAS. My iPhone app sees both the first PMS on my desktop PC and the new PMS on the NAS.

My question is how to “move” the playlists that were created under the first PMS? I want to remove the Plex Media Server off my desktop PC. But I have yet to figure out how to get the playlists over to the new server.

I haven’t found any options in the Plex Media Server app. I even went looking for an .xml file or some such thing that I could copy over. But no luck.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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By default you cannot, unfortunately.

If you get WebTools installed and running on both servers, you could try to export/import the playlists.

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Thank you for the quick reply.

I have a QNAP NAS, so I’ll have to figure out how to get that installed on it. With nothing but a web based UI, it’s a little different than I’m used to.

Seems like “playlists” are a trouble spot for Plex… I wouldn’t think it would be that hard to write an Import / Export bit of functionality and just take care of it.

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The author of WebTools is QNAP specialist. So I’m sure this thing runs on QNAP.

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If you are just starting out on QNAP, make sure to bookmark this: Qnap faq.....read me first!

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See: https://github.com/ukdtom/WTInstaller/wiki/QNAP

And to Download, find it here: https://github.com/ukdtom/WTInstaller/releases/latest

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thank you

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I was able to install webtools on my QNAP pretty easily (thank you for the write up). But then I realized what I really needed to do first was install it on my desktop PC which is where my first Plex Media Server is and is the one with the playlists. So I downloaded and installed the Windows version. But I’m not seeing any way to use it?

In Plex Media Server on my desktop PC, I can go to the Settings panel, and choose the Plugins page. It shows iTunes and now WebTools. So, it’s there? When I hover over the webtools icon, it shows gear/settings and delete buttons. Settings just seem to be about port and cert stuff.

So how to use it to export playlists? When I go to where the playlists area in Plex, I don’t see any new options. I realize I’m probably missing something obvious. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Operating WT is the same on every platform:
You go to http://IP_address_of_server:33400 with your web browser (notice that this is a different port number than the “Plex port”).

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Ah, right, I was missing something obvious! One more question… Now I can access WebTools, go to Playlists. See the playlists in question… click the Download button next one of them and I get:

“‘NoneType’ object is not iterable”

Doesn’t seem to matter what playlist I pick, clicking Download results in the same error. So close!

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Again, thank you for all your help, I really appreciated it. Unfortunately I think I’m at the end of the road. I found the playlistsV3.py file and made the change on line 948 as discussed. I rebooted my computer. Still get the “Nonetype” error. I think I may just have to give up on the playlists.

It’s really a shame that the Plex development team hasn’t delivered here.

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