# Import Playlist Functionality **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** server-windows, playlists\ **Created:** [April 13, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/import-playlist-functionality/709236 "2021-04-13T16:23:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lord\_arcane\_cox\_net](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/lord_arcane_cox_net/32/236106_2.png) [@lord\_arcane\_cox\_net](https://forums.plex.tv/u/lord_arcane_cox_net)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/import-playlist-functionality/709236/1 "2021-04-13T16:23:15Z")
Once upon a time, a few years back, when our family first started using Plex, it was very simple to import an iTunes generated playlist into your Plex Media Server. Now it no longer seems to be a working feature. Sure, there are old instructions on how to add the proper Settings (Settings \> Plugins) to point to the XML file for iTunes. But there is no option on the Playlist Tab of your Library to actually Import an iTunes Playlist, let alone any other playlist, as per some older instructions posts. The current system for adding a song from your Library into a Playlist is far more labor intensive then when you do the same thing in iTunes. In iTunes I can just drag a song to a playlist and it gets added. Whereas in Plex you have to go through several menu clicks and selections just to add one song to a playlist. This is an extremely tedious set of steps when trying to create your own playlists from within Plex Media Server. We originally started using Plex because of how easy it was to import iTunes playlists, but over the past year that functionality seems to have either diminished or was removed entirely. Sure, there is a setting for adding the XML, but there is no option available for actually importing it within the Library itself. The menu of options for the Library no longer has an import from iTunes function. This is a key feature that really should be re-added unless there is some legal reason for why it was removed and/or just not working correctly anymore? Because your current system for adding songs into playlists is far to labor intensive to be worth the time to create and then add to playlists from within the Plex interface itself (going through menu’s). Shawn ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/import-playlist-functionality/709236/2 "2021-04-13T20:17:33Z")
From all I understand, this feature is only available during the initial setup of your library. Given iTunes is no longer officially supported, this has gotten a bit dated and might require extra steps such as: - Include a reference to the iTunes library xml file in your server settings (`Settings` \> `[Server Name]` \> `Plugins` \> `iTunes library XML path` - Ensure the iTunes installation is creating a library XML file (the final versions no longer created those by default and might attempt to hide it from other apps)! [iTunes 12.2.0 - after re-creating my libr… - Apple Community](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7113918?answerId=28513304022#28513304022) - Path to the music files in the xml file should be the same as that used in the Plex library # PS: just noted that my remark about iTunes being “dead” is only true for macOS… interesting ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/import-playlist-functionality/709236/3 "2021-04-13T20:21:18Z")
There’s a related feature suggestion on re-importing playlists (which seems to be an option available for Plex Media Server on macOS but not on Windows > [@Import from iTunes Playlist after Library Already Created in Windows Version on PMS](https://forums.plex.tv/t/import-from-itunes-playlist-after-library-already-created-in-windows-version-on-pms/550733): > > I have 2 Plex servers, both with identical Music and Video libraries located on their local drives on their respective laptops. This configuration allows users to switch to the backup laptop server in the event that one of the laptops go down. This feature request would add Playlist refresh from source in the Windows 10. Currently, only my MacOS version of the Plex allows this refresh capability. See Figure (1). [MacOS Playlists Refresh Option.] On the Dell XPS 15 Windows box, there is no op…