It would be nice to have an option to point Plex to existing m3u playlists and use those for Plex playlists for a DLNA/UPnP music server or serving to Plex clients. Or if not to be used as Plex playlists it could be a separate feature called something like "External Playlists." Right now I am aware…

Great, I think I found it LibrarySectionID =1 in the XML of a song info I created a text document and named it NOBACKUPS and saved it, will that work? What’s next, open a command prompt to run it and how do I do that?

Make sure it’s just NOBACKUPS not NOBACKUPS.txt. Open a prompt, navigate to the PPP folder with the cd command above, and then run with ‘python3 PPP.py’

I don’t see a .txt at the end of the NOBACKUPS would it be visible? Got an invalid syntax on the colon between localhost:32400

If you use the command ls when in the PPP folder, it will show either NOBACKUPS or NOBACKUPS.txt. You need to keep the inverted commas around all the variables so it should be ‘localhost:32400’

Got a bunch of errors, tried again, it said completed but there’s nothing there. I’m exhausted…

@ChuckDavis666 Agreed. I accidently jumped up and down in the “Can Plexamp read and use m3u playlists” thread, but elan responded immediately. Looks like the APIs are still there, but no update on when they’ll be exposed in the UI. @elan Appreciate the quick reply. If you can make it happen, a bum…

I’m jumping up and down too! I can’t believe requests for a feature this basic aren’t being acknowledged or acted on. Glad I didn’t plunk down cash for Plex, I don’t need the premium features but wouldn’t mind contributing if it met my needs in other ways (M3U Playlist importing on Raspberry Pi WIT…

I’ve been waiting for this for ages now! Emby has it figured it out already, but its Alexa skill is bad and won’t work with the free version. And I don’t wanna go back to Emby and buy the premiere version of it. Plex NEEDS to get on board on this. The music side of the server is extremely useful! …

For what it’s worth, I’ve been able to successfully import all of my 100s of external m3u playlists into Plex via iTunes and it works…sort of. To be clear, I’m not using iTunes for anything other than a means to get my playlists imported into Plex. The only problem remaining for me is Plex’ lack of …

Option to use existing m3u for playlist feature

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ChuckDavis666 April 5, 2019, 3:46pm 101

Back in May 2018 Elan Feingold (@elan), the CTO and Co-Founder of Plex, said in the thread below that they had this functionality working but hadn’t implemented the UI. I haven’t been able to find out anything further. Maybe if everybody in this thread jumps up and down and makes lots of noise they will give us access.

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