How to Use Plex to Easily Create Playlists for PlexAmp

The first thing you’ll want to do is set up a collection from inside the main Plex web-app.

• Navigate to music library and change the search view to “albums”

You could also change it to “tracks”, just don’t leave it on “Artists” or, when you create collections, it will create links to artist profiles in your library instead of their actual media, and that will mess up how Plex transfers music to PlexAmp

• Select the album you want to move to a collection
• Click the vertical ellipsis (or “kebab” menu icon)
• Select “add to”
• Select “add to collection”
• Set the name of your collection if creating a new one, or add to an existing one!

This also makes adding multiple items to a collection really easy. Just click the little transparent circle in the upper right of the album artwork to mark it with an orange check mark. Then continue for as many albums as you would like! The top of the screen will now display how many items you have selected and provide the controls for adding to a collection.

It’s really easy to add multiple songs from an album to a collection as well, by selecting the transparent circle next to a song’s name, check marking it, and then using the menu that appears at the top of the screen to add them wherever you want.

You’ll see your new collection in the Plex collections tab, and you can continue to add music to it however you wish! The best part about collections in Plex is that they can be accessible to users across the server, not just a single user. This means that anyone who has access to your server cans see the collections you have created. However, collections will not show up in PlexAmp. For that, you need playlists that are curated to individual user accounts.

Now that you have a collection created in which you have your cool music stored, you need to turn it into a playlist. Luckily, this is really simple.

• Select your playlist
• Click on the vertical ellipses (kebab menu)
• Select “Add to”
• Select “Add to Playlist”

You can either create a new playlist (the name will automatically fill in the name of the collection that you’re adding), or add to an existing playlist.

As soon as you launch PlexAmp you’ll see your new playlist that you created over in Plex appear in the “Recent Playlists” tab of the home screen.

If you don’t just want to see the latest playlist but actually find all your created playlists, just click on the library tab.

• Once on the library window, tap playlists

Note: there’s sometimes an error regarding how PlexAmp sees playlists, and it may read your library as having an incorrect number of playlists (in this image, zero). If you’ve followed the previous steps, ignore it and click through anyway, you’ll see them all there!

And, just like that, your new playlist is visible in your PlexAmp application! This makes curating your music really easy in Plex, since PlexAmp itself doesn’t really have any features for managing the library (only for playing from the server).

Collections are shared across your Plex server, but playlists are not! If you create collections, anyone can view them, making it easy to share your cool music playlists, but it’s up to each individual member to go through the trouble of adding those collections to their own playlists and therefore being able to then view the playlist inside PlexAmp. This allows each server member to curate their own content as they see fit, even going so far as to add or remove their own tracks and albums from a specific playlist without affecting the main collection and any other member’s listening experience.