Playlists

BeetstreamNext reads and writes playlists from several sources:

1. BeetstreamNext’s own playlists: Created via the standard Subsonic playlist endpoints, stored per-user under playlist_dir. Leave playlist_dir empty to disable BeetstreamNext-managed playlists entirely.
2. Beets’ playlist plugin directory: Regular .m3u-style playlist files managed by Beets.
3. Beets’ smartplaylist plugin directory: Query-generated playlists. These are read-only in BeetstreamNext, because they’re automatically regenerated by Beets.

Permissions

• Any user with playlistRole can create/edit/delete their own BeetstreamNext-native playlists.
• Any user listed under external_playlists_editors can additionally edit/delete playlists from the Beets playlist plugin directory. Nobody can edit smartplaylist-generated playlists, only read.

Note: BeetstreamNext-native playlists are written to the disk as .m3u files like Beets’ playlists.

See playlist_dir and external_playlists_editors in the configuration reference.