Deleting a playlist have a too much "threatening" alert message

[Nicryc]

Describe The Bug When deleting a playlist a dialogue with the following message is displayed:

Delete Item? Deleting this item will delete it from both the file system and your media library. Are you sure you wish to continue?

It makes think that media inside the playlist are going to be deleted too.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create a playlist
2. Try to delete it

Expected Behaviour

The message should be more specific to playlists or less "threatening".

System

• Platform: Windows 10
• Browser: Firefox 103
• Jellyfin Version: 10.8.1

[SegiH]

How about something like this ? "Deleting this playlist will delete the playlist file from both the file system and your media library. Are you sure you wish to continue?"

[Nicryc]

Is a playlist really a file ? Besides I don't think the playlist actually exists on the file system, it's clearly a Jellyfin abstraction. So I'd get rid of the file system part.

I would see a much simpler warning message: "Are you sure you wish to delete this playlist?". Maybe with the addition of a comforting message like: "Your media will stay untouched".

[SegiH]

Yes it is a file. A playlist created normally through Jellyfin saves an XML file or you can use a m3u8 playlist format. Either way, the playlist does exist on the file system so that's why I changed the wording to reflect that

[Nicryc]

Yeah obviously it exists somewhere but I mean it's not something the user will modify directly on the file system, copy, move or rename like he would do with a video or music file.

It's not a file that the user manages himself on the file system. Sorry I misspoke.

[SegiH]

I created the change request. The wording is now "Deleting this item will not affect you media. Are you sure you wish to delete this playlist?"

PR #4038

[thornbill]

If the playlist is an m3u8 file inside your media library does it get deleted?

[Nicryc]

Is it even possible to add a playlist by putting a m3u8 file in a media folder?

[SegiH]

Yes. I do exactly this. In fact, I wrote a simple app that creates an empty m3u8 file in a Playlist folder which is in my media library because Jellyfin creates an xml playlist by default and I prefer m3u8

[Nicryc]

Where do you place it? And how do you name it? Because I tested quickly I couldn't make it work.

[SegiH]

I created a folder called Playlists in music library and put my m3u8 playlists in this location. JF automatically picks it up

[Nicryc]

In Jellyfin, does it appears in the Music folder or in the Playlists folder?

[SegiH]

Playlists

Do you want to see a sample of one of my m3u8 files?

[Nicryc]

Yes that would be nice.

I tried to create a music library (because it seems to work only with music library which is why I didn't know it was possible since I don't have a music library) and my playlist appears in the Playlists folder but is empty. I've created my m3u8 playlist using VLC.

[SegiH]

Here's the content from one of my m3u8 playlist files

EXTM3U

EXTALB:Immortal Beloved

EXTART:Beethoven, Ludwig van

EXTINF:180,Fur Elise

../Beethoven/Immortal Beloved/02 Fur Elise.mp3

EXTART:Beethoven, Ludwig van

EXTINF:900,Moonlight Sonata

../Beethoven/Misc/Moonlight Sonata.mp3

EXTART:Carly Commando

EXTINF:345,Everyday

../Carly Commando/00 Everyday.mp3

EXTART:Schubert

EXTINF:113,Moment Musicaux No. 3 in F Minor

../Schubert/Moment Musicaux No. 3 in F Minor.mp3

EXTART:Tchaikovsky

EXTINF:450,Waltz of the Flowers

../Tchaikovsky/Waltz of the Flowers.mp3

EXTART:Vivaldi

EXTINF:2519,Four Seasons

../Vivaldi/Four Seasons.mp3

EXTALB:Greatest Hits

EXTART:Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

EXTINF:212,Rondo Alla Turca (Turkish March)

../Mozart/Greatest Hits/08 Rondo Alla Turca (Turkish Marc.mp3

[Nicryc]

Thanks, apparently it doesn't work with absolute file path (at least on Windows).

If the playlist is an m3u8 file inside your media library does it get deleted?

So I just tested that. I put a m3u8 playlist file on my computer in C:\Users\john\Music, created a music library on Jellyfin with the previous path. The playlist appears in the Playlists folder of Jellyfin but it's impossible to delete it from Jellyfin, it's throwing an error saying Jellyfin doesn't have write permission on the folder.

[SegiH]

I ran into that same issue trying to delete a m3u8 playlist in Jellyfin.

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