Playlists are fragile

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I’m experimenting with building a music playlist, and I’ve come across a few issues:

  1. I gave my phone to a friend to scroll through my playlist. He inadvertently swiped right on a few tracks while trying to scroll down. Those songs disappeared from my playlist.

  2. I did some maintenance on my music files and renamed/moved some tracks. Any songs that were moved disappeared from my playlist.

In both those instances, I may not know which songs on my playlist have vanished, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to find out. Which brings me to:

  1. There doesn’t seem to be any way to back up a playlist, or “lock” it, or save it as a text file, .xml, or .m3u, and there’s no indication where a playlist might be stored. What happens when I do a full reinstall of Plex, do I lose my playlists?

If I’m going to spend hours crafting playlists, I’d like to know they’re going to be a bit more robust than this. At the very least, Plex should show me a warning when a file has changed (greyed out in the list, perhaps) and back up the list to a readable file in my library.

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Wholeheartedly agree.

The word “fragile” is a great way to describe it. There should be a mechanism for archiving the tracks in a playlist, even if it’s only in a text file.

PS My experience suggests we not “hold our breath.”

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Me Three. I listen to them on my iPad and when I swipe left or right to return to the previous open app… I’m often prompted to delete a track. An edit button needs to be on there somewhere to lock this sucker down.

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