@danielkarpathios, I think you may be confusing Playlists with Libraries. When you add new movies to your Plex environment, typically you add it to a Library. In Plex Web, your Libraries, along with a link for Playlists, appear on the left sidebar:
Once your movie is in any Library, you can add it to as many Playlists as you like (see the OP of this thread). This does not duplicate the file on the hard drive, and you don’t need to have multiple copies.
OK thank you for the reply.
I’ve opened up my libraries but i just dont see any option within the movie or on any of the 3 dots to add it to another genre library.
Could you screenshot where this is?
Thank you for your help
You can’t add it to another Library (without duplicating the file). You can add it to a Playlist.
@beckfield That’s exactly what I was hoping you wouldn’t say haha.
Thanks for your help!
This does not work for sports. For example, I’m trying to record all the Pittsburgh Steelers games.
I go to NFL Football, and all the episodes are listed.
I find one of the steelers games.
I click record.
I change “THIS EVENT” to “ALL PITTSBURGH STEELERS EVENTS” in record settings and get the following message:
“Ooops, it seems you don’t have any playlists libraries! Hint: Add a new library to your server to be able to schedule this recording.”
Unfortunately, no matter how many playlists or libraries i create that same message is shown.
Where are the plex people?
@cgrella@gmail.com said:
This does not work for sports. For example, I’m trying to record all the Pittsburgh Steelers games.I go to NFL Football, and all the episodes are listed.
I find one of the steelers games.
I click record.
I change “THIS EVENT” to “ALL PITTSBURGH STEELERS EVENTS” in record settings and get the following message:“Ooops, it seems you don’t have any playlists libraries! Hint: Add a new library to your server to be able to schedule this recording.”
Unfortunately, no matter how many playlists or libraries i create that same message is shown.
Where are the plex people?
Is this the Plex DVR? You’d probably be better off in that forum. I don’t know much about it.
I’m trying to create a playlist around the air dates of the episodes, which Plex filtering does not seem to target from what I can tell. It seems to only target the shows initial air date which doesn’t work for me because I am hoping to create the playlist around multiple shows.
Edit: Nevermind, figured it from here (https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/262234/new-version-is-not-showing-episode-date-added-but-only-when-the-show-was-added-when-filter). Not very intuitive on where to look for ‘Episodes’ but at least I have it now.
Software developer by day here. Is there anybody who knows where the user playlists are stored? I have a 60,000 song WinAmp playlist that I would like to get into Plex and I am betting there is no easy way to do that with some import functionality in Plex. I am fairly certain however, that I could write a program to do it if I can get the information on how Plex stores the playlist.
How do you create an empty movie playlist? I want to start off with no items and add movies to it later.
Plex doesn’t support empty playlists. A playlist is created when you add something to it, and a playlist no longer exists when you remove everything from it.
This appears to have changed, possibly with the UNO interface. Deleting all items from a playlist leaves an empty playlist now.
I’m finding there’s no easy way to search for files in the Plex web app and add a lot of them to a playlist. For example, I want to create a photo album of all the photos I took in January from each of the last several years. My filenames are all formatted like “YYYY-MM-DD HH.MM.SS”, (i.e. 2017-12-25 08.47.14.jpg), so I hoped it would be easy to search for “-01-”, select all and create a playlist (or album), but no dice. I am able to get the right results, but no easy way to add them to a playlist.
I have all the source files on a linux share, so it would be easy to collect all of the filepaths I want.
Has anyone tried to edit the playlist files directly on the server? I would assume it’s sitting in an xml- or json-formatted file, but don’t know where to start looking for it.
I can’t seem to find my answer by google searching so I’ll ask here. 1st is how many movies can be in 1 play list? I can’t get past 79. Is that the magic number‽‽‽
2nd is I want to be able to select all G and PG movies at the same time so my daughter can sort through them easily. That’s why I decided to just create a playlist but I can’t seem to add all the G and PG movies. We mostly use plex on Apple TV. Thanks.
@“carlos28355@msn.com” said:
I can’t seem to find my answer by google searching so I’ll ask here. 1st is how many movies can be in 1 play list? I can’t get past 79. Is that the magic number‽‽‽
2nd is I want to be able to select all G and PG movies at the same time so my daughter can sort through them easily. That’s why I decided to just create a playlist but I can’t seem to add all the G and PG movies. We mostly use plex on Apple TV. Thanks.
I was able to do this by using the Custom Filter. Open to your Movie library and click on All, then select Custom Filter at the bottom.
Next, choose Content Rating from the first dropdown, “Is” from the second, and choose “G” from the third.
Click on the third field again and choose “PG”. You’ll see that it comes in as an OR filter. Click Apply.
Finally, save this filter as a playlist by clicking the “Add to Playlist” button and giving it a name.
In my example my resulting playlist had 128 films, so you can definitely get above 79.
I just noticed this question, and that you got a response after 2 months. You probably would have gotten a response sooner if you had just started a new topic, rather than burying your question in an old thread.
Can I add tracks, albums, artists to playlist on Plex player app (not server) and will it be sync with server? (same Plex account)
As mentioned earlier:
Forgive me if this is the wrong place for this…but such useful info was being shared… does anyone know the fastest way to FIND a specific song (or whatever else you might have in a playlist) so it can be removed?
Thank you,
Omzig10
Why is this 4 year old post the only (outdated) information about Plex playlists that ever comes up when searched for? It’s so frustrating to trouble shoot anything in Plex. The server software is constantly updated; that’s great, but why are old instructions left posted without a link to something current? Or at least a reference to the software version? The result is that every time you look something up about Plex, it’s no longer relevant to your server’s current version.
This is what happens when a company relies on it’s customers for customer support. You save a buck, but you make a product who’s knowledge base comes from those people who’s motivations are their own, rather than that of the company’s core mission statement.
Oh, well. Whatever.
The above instructions are still relevant and in fact have been updated just recently.
Is there a way to make a smart playlist by track starred by certain artist…
