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Plex

The Plex provider gives Trobar playlists from your Plex Media Server. Its playlist entries are matched against your local library by artist/album/title, the same as every other provider. Unlike Jellyfin/Subsonic, there's no separate username to set — the token itself is already scoped to the Plex account it belongs to.

Connecting

Enter the connection details in the setup wizard, or later under Administration → Provider connection (editable live, no restart):

  • Server URL — your Plex Media Server's base URL (e.g. http://192.168.1.10:32400).
  • Token — an X-Plex-Token for the server, found via Plex's own instructions.

Trobar's own copies, from mirroring into Plex, are never read back as source playlists: they're the ones whose name ends in _Trobar_.

Members' own playlists

Plex has no per-member mapping, unlike Jellyfin, Emby and Navidrome. Every playlist comes from the one account whose token Trobar uses, as household playlists, and that account's playlists are the only ones the server lists to it.

Reading or writing another person's playlists would need the server owner's plex.tv account token, which covers their whole Plex account and not just this server, and plex.tv calls that Plex doesn't document. Trobar holds neither. If you need per-member Plex playlists, say so in an issue.

Mirroring into Plex

Any Trobar playlist can be mirrored into a Plex Media Server as a Plex music playlist, kept up to date on every playlist sync like the other mirror targets.

  • Set it up under Administration → Configuration → Playlist mirroring: Plex mirror-target URL and Plex token. It is its own connection, separate from the Plex provider's even when both point at the same server.
  • Whose playlists. A Plex playlist belongs to the account whose token is used, so that is where the copies land. A Plex Home managed user's token would put them in that user's playlists; that case hasn't been tested here, since only plex.tv issues those tokens.
  • Which tracks. A track is found in Plex by its last two folders and its file name (the two music roots differ: /music/… in Plex's container, something else in Trobar's), then by artist, album and title. Tracks Plex doesn't have are left out of the copy. If none of a playlist's tracks are in Plex, nothing is written and the playlist shows why.
  • What Plex does with it. A Plex playlist holds a track at most once, so a Trobar playlist that repeats a track is mirrored with its first occurrence. Plex accepts a track it doesn't have without an error, so every write is checked by reading the copy back; a difference shows as an error on the playlist, never as a clean write.
  • Name and summary. The copy is named after the playlist, with _Trobar_ at the end, and its summary says how many of its tracks are present. Renaming the playlist renames the copy.
  • Removed in Plex. A copy deleted in Plex is recreated on the next sync. A copy Plex can't read for a moment (an error, or no answer) is left alone, and nothing is written until it answers again.
  • Stopping. Turning the mirror off deletes the copy.

Verified against Plex Media Server 1.43.4.