iTunes Smart Playlist Conversion Error on Import

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I'm having a problem importing some of my smart playlists from iTunes. What I'm trying to accomplish is match one or more genres that contain one or more phrases, and only match items that have a rating > 2. In the log snippet below, you can see that it attempts to import a smart playlist named Rock, but it doesn't like something about how the playlist is set up and gets this error: ERROR - iTunes Import: Unknown field: 0x00. Below the log file I've also posted an example of how my iTunes playlist is configured. If anyone knows how I can configure this differently and have it work, I would be eternally grateful. Also, is there possibly a way to import this as a non-smart playlist? It looks like it reads all the tracks from iTunes that should be in the playlist, in this case 1724 tracks. Is there a way to just have it import a smart playlist into a regular Plex playlist that isn't query based?

 

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May 11, 2015 22:01:19:566 [7548] DEBUG - iTunes: reading tracks from playlist Rock
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:568 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 100
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:570 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 200
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:572 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 300
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:574 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 400
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:579 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 500
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:581 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 600
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:582 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 700
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:584 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 800
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:587 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 900
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:591 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1000
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:594 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1100
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:596 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1200
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:597 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1300
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:600 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1400
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:602 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1500
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:606 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1600
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:608 [7548] VERBOSE - iTunes: reading track 1700
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:622 [7548] DEBUG - iTunes: read 1724 tracks for playlist Rock
May 11, 2015 22:01:19:631 [7548] INFO - iTunes: done loading 11 playlists and 0 folders in 0.3 seconds.
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May 11, 2015 22:01:21:400 [7548] DEBUG - iTunes importer: playlist 'Rock' (smart: 1)
May 11, 2015 22:01:21:402 [7548] DEBUG - Added new metadata item (Rock) with ID 310212
May 11, 2015 22:01:21:421 [7548] ERROR - iTunes Import: Unknown field: 0x00
May 11, 2015 22:01:21:421 [7548] DEBUG - iTunes importer: Smart query converted to '' sort: 
May 11, 2015 22:01:21:421 [7548] WARN - iTunes importer: skipping playlist which generated an empty filter.
May 11, 2015 22:01:21:421 [7548] ERROR - iTunes importer: Couldn't import playlist Rock, deleting.
May 11, 2015 22:01:21:421 [7548] DEBUG - Destroying metadata item 310212 (Rock)
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Rock Playlist is set up like this in iTunes
 
Match all the following rules:
 
any of the following rules:
Genre contains Rock
Genre contains Alternative
Genre contains Metal
Genre contains Punk
 
all of the following rules
Rating is greater than (1 star)
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What version of PMS are you on? This was fixed relatively recently in 0.9.11.14 - https://forums.plex.tv/topic/62832-plex-media-server/?p=875318- we weren't previously coping with the 'any' in the smart playlists.

Please let us know if that doesn't fix it.

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What version of PMS are you on? This was fixed relatively recently in 0.9.11.14 - https://forums.plex.tv/topic/62832-plex-media-server/?p=875318- we weren't previously coping with the 'any' in the smart playlists.

Please let us know if that doesn't fix it.

I'm on the latest version 9.12.1. 

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Bump - I'm still looking for a solution for my smart playlist import problem (above). I am running the current preview release 9.12.1 on Windows 7.

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I've had a look at this issue, and it seems to be unrelated to the 'any' rule, it is falling over earlier than that.

I'm currently looking for the root cause.

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I've had a look at this issue, and it seems to be unrelated to the 'any' rule, it is falling over earlier than that.

I'm currently looking for the root cause.

This issue may have the same root cause.

https://forums.plex.tv/topic/116370-itunes-importer/page-3#entry929463

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It's a different root cause, it's falling over later than in this case. I'll have a look over that issue too, after I've figured out whats going on here.

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The problem is, is that our parser currently doesn't like nested conditions. I've noted it internally for further investigation.

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Thank you for your efforts! Appreciated, williami.

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@williami said:
The problem is, is that our parser currently doesn’t like nested conditions. I’ve noted it internally for further investigation.

There is still a problem importing smart playlists that have nested conditions. Any word on a fix for this?

Thanks