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Try going to your MC 32 library, probably located in a file path similar to this: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 32

Then copy playlistx.jmd, and paste that into your MC 33 library (located in a similar path) - MC will warn you that this will overwrite that field, but since you said you have nothing but empty playlists in MC 33, I presume that should not matter. 

While I have not used this technique on playlists specifically, I have used this approach several times when I accidentally overwrote a whole bunch of files with the same value at some unknown previous point in time. Since I had done a lot of recent tagging that I did not want to lose, this is how I solved it. If I had restored the entire library, I would lose all that recent tagging work. But you can pick and choose specific fields from a backup or an earlier install, and then overwrite the current library with that specific field - it is just not an automated process.

Of course it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, perform an MC backup on your existing MC 33 library prior to doing any of this in case something goes wrong.

Hopefully the above will do the trick for you.

Hey Team,
I haven't received a response to this yet and need to bump it.
I'm not kidding when I say that it seems the majority of my standard playlists are completely empty!  I probably have 50-100 empty playlists.
I've been working a lot in MC33 since upgrading - but mostly adding a lot of music, tagging and creating new playlists and I haven't been scanning existing playlists until last week.
MC32 is still on my Windows PC and all the playlists are intact in that. 
This will be a massive job manually updating all my empty playlists in MC33 and I suddenly feel seriously vulnerable because I don't know why this happened and I don't have a backup plan to fall back on now that I have done a lot of work in MC33.

Please help.
Thank you,
Nicholas

I am running MC30 and when exporting a playlist to a USB drive, I get the following file structure.

C:/Users/willi/Music/Sons of Ju--------   This fails when trying to use it.   I previously exported playlists and got the following format.

.\..\Music\Jackie Evancho\Dr---

The music is in the "Music" folder on the USB drive and this file structure works.

How do I get MC30 to export and create this file structure on the USB drive?

Yes, video files of tv recordings that I'm doing outside of MC and managing with some python scripts, and then importing into MC using MCWS Library/Import. They are just raw mkv files with no tags in them and they will be named "Series - SxxExx [resolution].mkv"

I didn't previously add the resolution and the file would come into MC with the Name showing Series SxxExx. Now it's literally [resolution], with the brackets. I can change my logic to be something else (parenthesis, braces, another hyphen, etc), but I thought that was fairly standard. I could tag the files in my script, but would prefer to just leave those blank and initiate the lookup in MC.

Video files?  Maybe Carnac:  https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Carnac

What is the logic behind the Name field when a file gets imported? I recently changed my naming convention for some of my recordings, by adding brackets. Now the name defaults to the content in the brackets. It's not a huge deal, because I typically go in and tag stuff anyway, but why wouldn't it just default to the entire name of the file?

Now it asks for user/pass.

I see MC's  login page for Library Server.

I think I have them both set now.  Can you give it another try?

So, it just started working without us understanding why it wasn't earlier.  Hate it when that happens because you never know when it will stop working for the same reason it wasn't working before.  But I don't know that there's anything we can do to figure out what was the problem at this point.

I can still access without user/pass. You need to set both the Authentication and Read-Only Authentication in MC settings to protect it.

Maybe your ISP changed something on their side.