LMS imports external playlists (.m3u/.m3u8) as shared, readonly objects.
Unfortunately I can’t remember the exact steps or wording (I know I suggested this to another user but I can’t find the post now), but in previous versions of Symfonium (at least 6 months since I last tried) it was possible to amend these playlists by:
Import ‘Playlist 1’ from LMS (shared playlist)
Push (rather than sync?) ‘Playlist 1’ to LMS (this saved the playlist in the user area)
Remove ‘Playlist 1’ from Symfonium
Import ‘Playlist 1’ from LMS (the user version of the playlist is imported)
In the latest Symfonium you can only Sync, which attempts to overwrite the readonly playlist and fails.
Is there a way to achieve this in the new streamlined workflow?
Logs:
Upload description: simbun
Additional information:
I haven’t uploaded logs because the functionality I want is missing, and the remaining functionality works as expected (can’t sync a readonly playlist).
If it’s possible to download old versions of Symfonium I’m happy to go back and check.
Don’t say you uploaded a log with a name then write in another place that there’s no logs, it’s just time lost for me …
You’ve made the log submission settings mandatory so I had to select them, and, knowing that you’d complain that I had selected them and not provided logs I explained why I didn’t. I guess I should apologise upfront for making you read this too
This was never possible. Importing a playlist from a server always tie the playlist to the server.
You can import, duplicate then push.
Given there isn’t the option to duplicate I assume you mean to add the contents of said playlist to another? I certainly didn’t have to do that previously, so I guess I’ll try and hunt down an old version for my own sanity.
It’s possible I’m mistaken, but I’m sure I was able to achieve it previously.
No you should directly have written that you have not in the place that ask for the upload description …
Even if it was possible, the fact that you push a playlist to a read only playlist server side with that playlist id results in a duplicate server side playlist is a wrong doing of the server …
Ping @itm for the details.
What you want is a way to copy read only playlists to not read only, this is a server side need, using a client to workaround the server is never the solution …
No you should directly have written that you have not in the place that ask for the upload description …
Good point. Apologies
Even if it was possible, the fact that you push a playlist to a read only playlist server side with that playlist id results in a duplicate server side playlist is a wrong doing of the server …
Ping @itm for the details.
The way I remember the old behaviour was that a sync would fail (as expected) but a push (or whatever it was called) succeeded, so they were different actions, but without being able to reproduce there’s not a lot for @itm to look at.
What you want is a way to copy read only playlists to not read only, this is a server side need, using a client to workaround the server is never the solution …
The server could load the external playlists into every user area which is an option, but “copying” between scopes from a client is a nicer solution - though it sounds like there is no concept of playlist scope currently.
Thanks for your input. I’ll go away and have a think.
The client only knows your user data and what the API expose. There’s no concept of scope anywhere client side or API side as it does not really make sense.
As I said your need is server side.
