I love having full control over my music files, but one of the major pain points is moving between applications. Say I start using plex, get real comfy with my playlists, then one day I decide to try out Jellyfin. Sure, I still have all my music on there, but none of my playlists.
Is there some sorta solution I’m not aware of that allows for migration of playlists across platforms / applications?
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If you make your playlists in M3U format and put them somewhere in your music directory, they’ll work on anything.
For example, I’ve got files like
music/playlists/12-steps.m3uin mine, and they work flawlessly on VLC, MPD, and Jellyfin.I exported a bunch of m3u’s from MusicBee, and Jellyfin picked 'em up just fine. Thanks for the tip!
Seems like Plex is making things difficult though, not showing up at all. What a pain.
“Anything” is a bit of an exaggeration. However, I wanted to mention m3u playlists as well, since it’s one of the few (the only?) open, file-based solutions.
I use them and sync them with Syncthing.
Try opening a .m3u-file in a text editor. They’re hilariously simple, which is probably why there only needs to be one solution…
I only ever shuffle my entire library. Over the years that has resulted in not knowing who the hell I’m listening to.
Kodi can be ran on pretty much anything. So if you make a playlist on there it can be exported everywhere. Works with both plex and jellyfin too.
Not that I’m aware of sadly
I landed on Plex for music after Groove axed their OneDrive BYOM… before Groove I was pretty much all-in on cloud music services, albeit via bootleg apps using ‘private’ APIs or scraping (like NewPipe, MyCloudPlayer etc), but disappearing tracks killed cloud music for me.
If/when I do move on from Plex I plan to open up the server’s SQLite DB and export all my playlists, which imo might be a bit more involved than most would like
I’ve been a Plex user for the past 6 years. I’m fairly happy with it, but have always been interested in Jellyfin. From posts I’ve read in the past, people say it’s not as polished as plex. I dl’d and installed jellyfin to my nas yesterday, but haven’t had a chance to play around with it. I do have a small-mediumish music library that in the past i’ve tried several methods (plex, google music [at the time], synology DS Audio] of using the random generator to listen to my music library - with i’m sad to report i found repetative. Just curious about others insights to Jellyfin and how it’s worked for them.
I haven’t used the random mode on music players in a long while really.
Primarily I listen to playlists via plexamp - once those finish playing, plexamp switches to a ‘sonic analysis’ mode to auto-generate songs to continue playing (as far as I’m aware). Haven’t so far encountered a situation where the same track somehow is always chosen to play.
Moving my movie & TV library to something like Jellyfin would be a no brainer (although I have no plans to do that yet) - however so much has been packed into Plexamp that I’m hesitant to move my music library to another platform with less features just yet
Most apps have export import capability. For instance, i use both Clementine and Rhythmbox on my desktop. I export the playlists in m3u format. Then sync the whole shebang to my Jellyfin server in the cloud. Jelly finds the playlists and adds them. Then use Finamp or Jelly app on my phone
Navidrome allows central playlists.I prefer it for music to jellyfin, offline playback is easier
If there is, I haven’t found it yet. Right now I am using MusicBee at the computer and Plex everywhere else and am just making my playlists in both places.
