diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e9aad5a9c..bfa9e97e0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ver 0.21.6 (not yet released)
   - allow loading playlists specified as absolute filesystem paths
   - fix negated filter expressions with multiple tag values
   - fix "list" with filter expression
+  - omit empty playlist names in "listplaylists"
 * input
   - cdio_paranoia: fix build failure due to missing #include
 * decoder
diff --git a/src/PlaylistFile.cxx b/src/PlaylistFile.cxx
index c49ff8e1e..970190967 100644
--- a/src/PlaylistFile.cxx
+++ b/src/PlaylistFile.cxx
@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ LoadPlaylistFileInfo(PlaylistInfo &info,
 	const auto *const name_fs_end =
 		FindStringSuffix(name_fs_str,
 				 PATH_LITERAL(PLAYLIST_FILE_SUFFIX));
-	if (name_fs_end == nullptr)
+	if (name_fs_end == nullptr ||
+	    /* no empty playlist names (raw file name = ".m3u") */
+	    name_fs_end == name_fs_str)
 		return false;
 
 	FileInfo fi;