Import Playlist To Plex

Description:

So I have been using Plex as my media server for over a month now and it just drives me crazy that I cannot import my playlist from MediaMonkey. I started looking for a solution and finally found one, a python script I could run to fix it!

To Resolve:

1. Newer version (Plex can be running).

   cd /home/gerry
   yum install git -y
   
   # clone repo
   git clone https://github.com/dakusan/PlexPlaylistImporter.git
   cd PlexPlaylistImporter/
   
   # run script that imports '/mnt/music/playlists/5-star-trance.m3u' to playlist called 'trance'
   chmod +x ./PlexPlaylistImporter.py
   
   ./PlexPlaylistImporter.py -p /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-in\ Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db /mnt/music/playlists/5-star-trance.m3u trance
   

   • You will either get:

   success
   134 items added
   

   • or something like:

   ./PlexPlaylistImporter.py -p /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-in\ Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db /mnt/data/data/my-music/linux-playlists/z-rock-n-roll.m3u z-rock-n-roll
   ListImporter 'Winamp playlist': Cannot find file listed in playlist (must be relative to the playlist): ../music-library/acdc--back-in-black.mp3
   

   • The fix is to go to your music library and make sure that file exists with that name.

2. Older version of this article:

   • Get script at PlexPlaylistImporter

   • On my CentOS 7 VM, I had to install python:

   sudo yum install epel-release  
   sudo yum install python34  
   curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py  
   sudo /usr/bin/python3.4 get-pip.py
   

   • When I ran the script, it asked me for the full media library path. According to the guide I was able to find it at:

   /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-in\ Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db
   

   • I then had to point it to my media library path where the .m3u files were:

   /share/my-music/my-playlists/playlist-name.m3u
   

   • Lastly, since I use Windows, I had to convert \ to /

   sudo pluma playlist-name.m3u  
   # find and replace
   Ex: (Navigate to script dir)
   ./PlexPlaylistImporter.py -p /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-in\ Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db /my-share/my-music/my-playlists/dubstep.m3u
   

   • If you get the error DB Error: unable to open database file try prefacing the command with sudo.