In one of the Roon Mastery emails, I saw that Roon exports a playlist made via a program called Soundiiz. I looked into this, and joined up on the Soundiiz website. I exported a playlist made in Roon to the Soundiiiz format and imported it into the Soundiiz and transferred it to my PLEX Server.
I was actually a bit impressed (a difficult thing to do at times lol).
My question is this:
How do I reverse the process, and a playlist made in PLEX, export it out of Soundiiz, and import it into Roon. What file format am I looking to create a file in, and then how do I import that into Roon? Where do I place the newly created playlist file so that Roon will be able to read it, create a playlist and place it within my existing Roon Playlists?
I have tried the following:
Converted the PLEX playlist to a Soundiiz playlist. That went fine. Next I went to export it to a file. What file type am I looking to export it to that Roon will understand? After that is done, where do I import it in to Roon?
Both Roon and PLEX play from there same files on my server. Same directories etc.
My endgame is to be able to convert all my PLEX playlists into Roon and use that as my main listening platform in my home e listening room. It would be so much better to have the PCM playback as opposed to the ACC that PLEX currently provides.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer.
Thanks for the info. Ive tried a few different things. I did get several programs to export as the M3U file (see screenshot). I made a separate folder inside my Roon watched folder where all my music is. Rescanned and nothing. Restarted Roon. Nothing. This seems like a VERY convoluted process to get a standard file type imported into Roon.
Depending upon your server configuration, Roon might have a hard time with absolute paths like the ones you have here. Plus, those absolute paths are usually not a best practice with .m3u playlists because they are not portable (they aren’t guaranteed to work in other file structures).
So you generally want to have your “playlists” folder at the top level of your music folder, as a peer of your other music folders (which, in your case, might be alongside your “Michael Bolton” folder), and then use relative paths (likely to start with ../) to reference your music files, as in the screenshot I shared with you.
For instance:
../Michael Bolton/Soul Provider/10 Stand Up for Love.flac
This means “from this playlists folder, go up one folder, and then down to the Michael Bolton folder to the album called Soul Provider” etc.
This format will work with all known music systems. I do this myself, and my playlists work with Roon, Lyrion Music Server, and Synology Audio Station/DS Audio.
Then, you will have to do a force rescan of your library, and you should see these in Roon’s “Imported Playlists” section.
Here is a path example that Roon wants to see for playlist import
/storage/music/The Beatles/Revolver/07 She Said She Said.wav
/Drive where music is stored/folder that contains music/Album title/song file name
If you export a playlist from Roon the .m3u export, except it will look like this:
…/The Beatles/Revolver/07 She Said She Said.wav
Note: Roon will only take a .m3u import for playlists. So you can build your playlist out in Excel and then save it out as a .csv file and then change the extension to .m3u, and then import. Of course the music of the playlist needs to be in the matching location path
I hope this helps and makes sense. It take a bit of messing around. Please reach out if you have any questions.
@Suedkiez is good at this also and taught me how to do this
Thank you Ron and DDPS for the info. Very informative.
It seems like the Roon import routine is a bit convoluted. My playlists that I want to port over from my PLEX server have song counts in the hundreds, sometimes thousands, so to adjust manually or at best a script to satisfy the Roon method would be a long and time consuming task.
The thing is I tried 3 different exporters of M3U files and all of them pretty much came out with the same format. Im hoping in the future the Roon routine will be more accomidating to the process.
But thanks to everyone here who contributed information. It was very informative.
