Import Plex Playlists?

Channels DVR Server
#1

For Local Media, Using a 3rd party tool such as Tautulli, it is possible to export (as M3U) a Plex Playlist from Plex.

Is there someway to import this and create a corresponding Channels Playlist?

I have several Plex Playlists of Combined TV and Movie local media that are in Chronological order. These are Huge for things like Marvel Universe (TV and Movies) and Star Trek (all TV shows and Movies). It would take forever to recreate these in Channels App AFAICS, and since I have the M3U exports from Plex Playlists for these, it would be great if I could just import the M3U into a Channels App Playlist?

Is this possible today? If not, is it on the features list for future?

Thanks.

#2

Imports for something like this is not currently available, but you'll probably want to check out ways you can rebuild the same functionality in Channels:

Please note that Playlists are only a feature of Apple products, not Android/Google.

I wouldn't say it'll take "forever", but it certainly won't be quick!

#3

You could just set up collections and attach Virtual Channels to them, played in Chronological order. Much easier to create than a playlist.

#4

Thank you very much for the feedback. It IS appreciated.

In regard to the feedback:

Collections:
I already have re-created my Plex "collections" manually in Channels for Movies, and it works very well. But for Combined Chronological it is not a good solution for Chronological order for franchises like "Star Trek" where there are Television shows and movies.

Virtual channels:
Unless I'm not grokking "Virtual Channels" correctly, this doesn't appear to be the setup I'm seeking for watching Chronological order for franchises? I do not think I want a Virtual Channel to represent a playlist. I don't want a bunch of Virtual Channels to weed thru? Nor do I want this to appear in the Guide. This is all for owned media local content.

What I'm seeking is a hierarchical tree, with a "Playlist" (or similar top-level) with sub-list of a "playlist" that will contain chronological ordered shows from a Franchise that will include both TV and Movies. Ex: Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars, Marvel Universe, etc.). Ideally, it would be awesome if the playlist could be "smart" and tag by "watched" status.

Plex already does this, and we can export such playlist via Tautulli as M3U.

Recreating these playlists (like those mentioned above) manually in Channels appears to defeat the purpose of Computer automation to streamline tedious repetitive tasks. It WOULD take a very long time (and very tedious) to recreate my Plex Chronological playlist for Marvel Universe (as example) which contains all Movies and all TV shows and they are complexly interleaved for Chronological Order.

If anybody has any ideas along these lines I would very much appreciate the feedback! Thanks!