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guanfi99

How do you deal with playlists?

Hi, I'm loving Navidrome and have been learning slowly how to use it with Picard to have all the Metadata. I have recently discovered the naming and tagging scripts functionality and it has helped me enormously when uploading new music and organizing it.

My setup

My setup is made so that each user has their own account and their own library. This allows them to pick and choose whether they want to listen to only their uploaded music or any combination of libraries.

I realize this makes possible duplicates between libraries an issue but that is not an issue right now and will deal with it later (although if you have any recommendations I'd like to hear some )

The issue at hand

However I don't really have a good idea how I should deal with playlists that one of my users wants to upload to the server. I know that he has one big folder with a .m3u file. Given that he might have duplicate songs in a couple of the different playlists, what should I do?

I would like the playlists to still show the songs, but is there a way to have them all point to the same file instead of having duplicates for each playlist?

Is making a separate library for a playlist a solution?

Posted May 1, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

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