"Groups to Import" is blank but existing groups are still being imported

[madasus]

Describe the bug

The "Groups to Import" dropdown is blank but the 7 or 8 groups that I had previously selected are still being imported correctly on each run. I have the "preprocess playlist" ticked and I can confirm the process is working as I still see channels being added and removed from the list. When I go back in to modify the groups the list is blank and it shows nothing is selected.

I also notice that the "ignored file types" I had previously set are now blank. If I add them again and press save they are gone again when i refresh.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Setup the system and everything was working fine
2. Returned to the Processing page on the playlist and the groups to import is blank

Expected behavior

I would expect to see the groups as I have in the past so I can remove or add new ones

Actual behavior

see screenshot

Screenshots

showing the playlist with the channels and groups

docker-compose.yml contents

services:
  m3u-2:
    image: sparkison/m3u-editor:latest
    container_name: m3u-2
    environment:
      - TZ=Etc/EST
      - APP_URL=http://10.2.1.114 # or http://192.168.0.123 or https://your-custom-tld.com
      # This is used for websockets and in-app notifications
      # Set to your machine/container IP where m3u editor will be accessed, if not localhost
      - REVERB_HOST=localhost # or 192.168.0.123 or your-custom-tld.com
      - REVERB_SCHEME=http # or https if using custom TLD with https
    volumes:
      # This will allow you to reuse the data across container recreates
      # Format is: <host_directory_path>:<container_path>
      # More information: https://docs.docker.com/reference/compose-file/volumes/
      - /disk1/docker/m3u-2/data:/var/www/config
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 36400:36400 # app
      - 36800:36800 # websockets/broadcasting

Container/Host Logs

⚡️ Starting app at: http://10.2.1.114:36400
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/EST': No such file or directory
📅 Timezone set to Etc/EST. Current date/time: Sun May  4 23:54:24 UTC 2025

🔑 App key check confirmed

✅ No updates available.


   INFO  Caching framework bootstrap, configuration, and metadata.

  config ........................................................ 24.87ms DONE
  events ......................................................... 1.46ms DONE
  routes ........................................................ 33.80ms DONE
  views ........................................................ 347.16ms DONE
  blade-icons ................................................... 25.42ms DONE
  filament ...................................................... 20.69ms DONE


   INFO  Application is already up.

🗂️ Enabling SQLite WAL mode...
The 'sqlite' connection has been set as [wal] journal mode.

💾 Running migrations...

   INFO  Nothing to migrate.

🛠️ Building assets...

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3 vulnerabilities (2 moderate, 1 high)

To address all issues, run:
  npm audit fix

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> build
> vite build

vite v6.0.3 building for production...
transforming...
✓ 12 modules transformed.
rendering chunks...
computing gzip size...
public/build/manifest.json              0.20 kB │ gzip:  0.14 kB
public/build/assets/app-mvnv8j6y.css  117.24 kB │ gzip: 16.38 kB
public/build/assets/app-DUaD4pXU.js   132.18 kB │ gzip: 39.22 kB
✓ built in 1.35s

🚀 Starting services...

2025-05-04 23:54:29,112 INFO Set uid to user 0 succeeded
2025-05-04 23:54:29,113 INFO supervisord started with pid 1
2025-05-04 23:54:30,115 INFO spawned: 'crond' with pid 84
2025-05-04 23:54:30,117 INFO spawned: 'redis' with pid 85
2025-05-04 23:54:30,118 INFO spawned: 'php-fpm' with pid 86
2025-05-04 23:54:30,120 INFO spawned: 'nginx' with pid 87
2025-05-04 23:54:30,121 INFO spawned: 'websocket' with pid 88
2025-05-04 23:54:30,122 INFO spawned: 'queue' with pid 89
2025-05-04 23:54:31,328 INFO success: crond entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2025-05-04 23:54:31,328 INFO success: redis entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2025-05-04 23:54:31,328 INFO success: php-fpm entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2025-05-04 23:54:31,328 INFO success: nginx entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2025-05-04 23:54:31,328 INFO success: websocket entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2025-05-04 23:54:31,328 INFO success: queue entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)

Additional context

[madasus]

I added a second playlist pointing to the same M3U - this seemed to work for a couple of days and now I'm seeing the same behavior as above (no config changes in the past few days).

I'm unclear how to debug this? any thoughts?

[sparkison]

I'll see if I can re-produce. Are you using a m3u playlist url or Xtream API?

[madasus]

@sparkison m3u playlist. If there is a way to debug i'm happy to provide whatever is needed i just don't see any errors.

[sparkison]

@madasus I might need to test your playlist file to debug. You can PM me on Discord.

...but first, I'm wondering if it's the group formatting 🤔

If you look at your original playlist (direct from the provider before going through m3u editor), can you grab a couple lines, specifically the group-title tag? I'm wondering if there's some additional characters or casing that is changing or somehow flagging them as different or empty.

[madasus]

@sparkison sent on discord

[digitalSaj]

I am having this same issue., only difference being, I am using xtream api

Also I am not exactly sure, but I am guessing my provider changed one of the category name which was selected in m3u-editor. Which made few channels from that category to no longer be enabled. But if I am going to select the category, I will loose all my customisations. I was running 5.6 and seeing this issue upgraded to 5.8. But existing selections still don't show up.

[madasus]

I thought it might be related to a group that changed/vanished as well. @sparkison i think we can test this with the group name test i provided

[sparkison]

I have a potential fix out in dev! If you could give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

[digitalSaj]

I have a potential fix out in dev! If you could give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

Updated to dev, sadly the categories are still empty.

anything I can check to pinpoint this issue.

[sparkison]

I have a potential fix out in dev! If you could give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

Updated to dev, sadly the categories are still empty.

anything I can check to pinpoint this issue.

Did you run the sync again after updating? If the categories are empty you'll still need to sync to fetch them after the update.

[madasus]

@sparkison I just tested this today. I did a sync on the broken playlists and they are still broken unfortunately. Do you want me to create a fresh playlist and see if the problem gets created again?

UPDATE: Just tried adding a new playlist after going to DEV. Unfortunately after the initial processing I go back in to select my groups and i just get an error 500 message

[sparkison]

you can enable debugging to get some additional output. If you set APP_DEBUG=true that might help us troubleshoot better.

[madasus]

Here you go @sparkison

[digitalSaj]

I have a potential fix out in dev! If you could give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

Updated to dev, sadly the categories are still empty.
anything I can check to pinpoint this issue.

Did you run the sync again after updating? If the categories are empty you'll still need to sync to fetch them after the update.

Yes I did run processing on the playlist again.
I am probably not able to pass on what happened properly.
Retrying chronologically, if that helps in any way:

1. From the sync logs on 22 March I can see some categories / channels got removed some of which I had enabled.
2. Most probably few categories were renamed by my provider. eg. category ASIA | Bangladesh was renamed to BAN
3. On 24th I realised few channels are missing and updated to 5.8 from 5.6. I always do use the dev channel.
4. Right now I am not able to filter any category in "Groups to import", even though I have processed the playlist several times.

I was thinking can we do any modifications to the sqlite db and reupload to fix this.