Playlists - How to export the media files that make up a playlist

I have a pretty massive library. I want to take a couple TB with me on the road when overseas in hostile environments where I will have no real/reliable internet access.

Using the sync feature to an android device works fine for a couple titles, but not when I’m trying to take big chunks of my whole library, which is what I want to do here.

Ideally, I take a playlist and hit export, where it will dump the related media files in a destination folder of my choosing. I don’t see a way to do that. An alternative option would be to export the playlist to a CSV or something, so long as the path and filename are also a column in said CSV, so that I can run it through a powershell script and feed the path of each title in the playlist to a looped copy routine that will dump the media files where I want them to go.

As it stands, what I do now, which is a huge pain, is rummage through the actual filesystem on the main library and grab a few hundred titles of what I want to take; which is a huge pain.

If it matters, my portable system is a small nas that runs plex, though I don’t see any way to sync specific playlists (as making my entire library portable is impractical).

Ideas?

There is unfortunately no direct way to do what you want.
You can install WebTools which allows you to export your playlist into the universally understood .m3u8 format.

Looks like that might work, if I get that file format, then use a 3rd party tool to “download” the files contained in the .m3u8 file; or perhaps it’s in XML format and I can parse it in powershell to achieve the same thing.

Thanks