Hi!

I’ve been working on a smart playlist plugin for Jellyfin for a couple of weeks, and by now it’s at a stage where I can say it’s usable and doesn’t have any show-stopper bugs. The playlists are created and edited in the plugin’s settings.

A simple configuration for all liked pop songs would look like this:

Id: Favourite Pop
Name: Favourite Pop
Program: |
  (and (is-type "Audio") (is-favorite) (is-genre "pop" (genre-list)))
SortProgram: |
  (begin *items*)

It supports reflection, so any filter or property can be added without modifying the plugin directly; most of the pre-defined filters are implemented this way.

There also is a mirror at Codeberg: codeberg.org/redxef/jellyfin-smart-playlist

  • @ferngully
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    416 hours ago

    Is this only for music, or tv shows as well? I find myself shuffling shows a lot and it was nice in Plex to have a smart playlist and exclude shows that had been played in the last X days from the playlist.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      213 hours ago

      Not yet, though thats a feature worth looking at. I’m thinking that it should be collections instead of playlists. If you add 3 shows to a playlist only the episodes will appear there, while the collection will only show the tv show (or season, whatever you added).

  • @quixotic120
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    319 hours ago

    I will try this out, thanks!

    Any idea if playlists can directly work in external but non Jellyfin apps like finamp or kodi with Jellyfin for kodi? If not can playlists be saved/exported for use in those contexts?

    • @gccalvin
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      219 hours ago

      It’s closed source, but Symfonium has had smart playlists for a while, if it’s a feature you’re willing to switch for. It’s great to see this feature in the Jellyfin server, and hopefully all the apps can implement it in due time.

      • @[email protected]
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        216 hours ago

        I really like Symfonium. I’ll second giving it a check.

        I love using it for Navidrome & offline caching, and it’s nice because it does offer some casting capabilities internally.

  • qaz
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    219 hours ago

    Cool. I haven’t transcoded most of my music to a supported format yet, but I might try this out after I have.

  • BentiGorlich
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    118 hours ago

    I don’t really understand the readme. Is the creation done in a cli or in the jellyfin UI?

    I was missing this feature in jellyfin and this would be really great (I switched from plex which has it and I used it a lot 😅)

    • @[email protected]OP
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      418 hours ago

      Ah, should probably make that more clear. Everything can be done in the settings of the plugin.

      • BentiGorlich
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        218 hours ago

        very nice. I will give it a try as well (after the holidays though)