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mike_power:
"ITunes playlist folders" are a useful means of consolidating multiple playlists under one header.  Although media centre has an equivalent feature it calls "playlist groups", Media Centre doesn't appear to recognise the playlist tree structures I have in ITunes playlist folders.  The result is this component of my itunes setup does not sync with  media centre and I have to manually re-create these often complex ITunes playlist folders again in media centre as matching playlist groups.  This is very time consuming.  I have searched earlier posts for this topic and unfortuantely can't find anything.  Can anyone advise if this is achieveable through a setting somewhere in Media Centre or if there is a plug in available which addressses this requirement?  Many thanks, Michael Power.

kgms01:
In iTunes select the playlist you want to import into MC.
Still in iTunes, select File-Library-Export Playlist
Save as XML (chose where you want the file saved, just remember where) :-)
In Media center File-Import Playlist
Chose the XML file you just created.
This process works for me.

mike_power:
Thank you so much for responding to me.  My issue is with Itunes "Playlist Folders" which are file containers for other playlist folders which ultimately comprise individual playlists.  These create a tree style file structure within Itunes. Because I have many many playlists I have to group them under these playlist folders.  You cannot export playlist folders from Itunes as a playlist.  When you export the Itunes library to JRiver it does import the contents of these folder like a playlist.  The problem with this is you lose all the sub folders and just have a long list of tracks which then have to be reassigned to a "playlist group" within JRiver.  For me this is a time consuming and cumbersome rebuild in JRiver.  I am not sure if you can help me at this point.  I am new to JRiver and I find this forum difficult to navigate.  If you have any issue escalation suggestions or are able to forward this to a moderator I would be greatly appreciative.  Many thanks again, Kind Regards, Michael Power.

mike_power:
To other forum members or JRiver monitors I have not received a reply which is a solution to this issue and only one person responded which was generous of them. I would have thought importing an iTunes folder with tree structure in tact would be a fundamental piece of functionality for MC.  I hope somebody in this forum can help guide me to any potential solutions as this is key for me. Many thanks, Michael Power

Matt:
Sorry, but I don't believe there's a way to import the playlist structure from iTunes into Media Center.  When we import playlists from the iTunes database, they're named as iTunes\[Name of Playlist] in Media Center.

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