Is there a way to convert playlists made in other apps?

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I was using Windows Media Player to play music across my devices in our internal network & Xbox and have over 100 playlists, some with as many as 3000 songs. Is there a way to convert them for Plex server without having to recreate completely? They are typically stored in standard /smil format as follows:

?wpl version=“1.0”?>
smil>
head>
author />
guid>{CEA60C0E-360C-4116-AEA1-30E05E79AB8E}
meta name=“totalDuration” content=“312737” />
meta name=“Subtitle” />
meta name=“ContentPartnerName” />
meta name=“ContentPartnerNameType” />
meta name=“ContentPartnerListID” />
meta name=“IsFavorite” />
meta name=“ItemCount” content=“1” />
meta name=“Generator” content=“Entertainment Platform – 3.6.2304.0” />
title>Jazz Sample
/head>
body>
seq>
media src=“E:\Data\Music\Jazz\Amazon Jazz Sampler\08 The Jive Samba.mp3” albumTitle=“Amazon Jazz Sampler” albumArtist=“Various Artists” trackTitle=“The Jive Samba” trackArtist=“Warren Hill” duration=“312737” />
/seq>
/body>
/smil>"

Also, where are the Plex playlists stored? How do I make sure I have them backed up once they are created?

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I struggled with this a few years ago. I had a lot in Windows Media Player. Plex is a database, so I don’t know that there is a playlist file like we’re used to in Windows Media or I tunes. Maybe this will help or point you in the right direction:

It’s been a few years and it was a pain in the ***. But this is how I remember doing it:

This is what I wrote and remember doing

  1. Download and use DB poweramp to convert all music files to mp3 (so itunes will recognize) format and in new directory that will be path for plex music folder
  2. Reload wmp library with this new plex music mp3 folder
  3. Edit existing wmp playlist (xxx.wpl) using find/replace in notepad for correct file path to mp3 files
  4. In wmp, copy all of playlist to now playing
  5. Save now playing to new playlist as m3u format
  6. In itunes delete all other playlists
  7. Import the m3u playlist into itunes
  8. Edit itunes playlist xml in notepad use find/replace with Plex file path to where media will be stored in plex. Example C:\plex\music
  9. In Plex (admin only account), import from itunes
    Not sure how I did this. Looks like the only option to import from itunes is on a music library creation. Maybe create a new music library with this option checked but pointed to an empty directory, then delete the library after the playlist shows in Playlists? Maybe someone else can touch on this.