Updated Playlist - Play Now uses Previous Sequence [#22132]

[Rob_S]

So the point is, I have manually moved some files, how do I know it will be automatically saved when I exit the playlist?

Why not provide a save button for that also, so I can save when I want to?

Admittedly, a sort order or even a multi-column sort is fairly easy to re-do, but how do I know it will NOT be saved on exit?

I still don't quite understand why the two are treated differently.

[Lowlander]

Manually changing file order is always saved, thus no save button. Sorting in never saved, thus the save button.

[Rob_S]

I was not asking how it presently works. Just that it puzzles me why this makes any sense to do it that way??

We shall see how it works after the fix posted to 2820 is released.

The program decides to save a sort change to my custom view (overwrite specified sort) without asking, but it does not automatically save a change to the sort order of my playlist??

[Lowlander]

As mentioned above, manual moving files will auto-save the new order, it's seen as intent. Sorting on Columns isn't auto-saved, it isn't seen as intent, some just want to see the files in a certain order temporarily.

[MattTown]

Setting: I have a tab with a static playlist showing in the main file list. I send the playlist to the Now Playing panel via the sideways triangle at the right of the large font playlist title. All songs are present in Now Playing and they play with no problems.
Next, I change the content of the playlist via selecting a song on a different tab (eg right hand search for artist: Yardbirds) and use right click send to to add one or several songs to the playlist. I use the playlist helper column that pops up after the send to relocate the new songs from the bottom of the helper list up to where I want them.
Next I change back to the tab that has the playlist shown in the main file list, which shows the edited version of the playlist with the new songs. All fine so far.

Issue: When I use the sideways triangle next to the playlist title to send the edited playlist to the Now Playing window, the original version of the playlist is sent again, not the edited version. I have the Default 'Play now' action set to Clear list & play selected only, so the edited list should replace the original list, but it does not. Even if I use the three dots at top of the Now Playing list to clear the list contents before using the sideways triangle to send the playlist again, it is only the original Playlist that gets sent via the sideways triangle.

Workaround: Clear the now playing list (just to be sure), then manually select the files in the playlist's file list (click on top file and shift click on bottom file) and then right click and Play Now. That sends the edited track list to Now Playing.

Inference: Whatever the sideways arrow is pointing at is not being updated when the playlist is edited.

Cheers
Matt

[Lowlander]

Added as: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=22132

[MattTown]

Thanks

[MattTown]

As per forum guidance I did do a quick search for this but didn't find my own post on the same topic from 2023, titled "Updated Playlist - Play Now uses Previous Sequence".
The symptoms described by me in that original post are very similar, but the subsequent discussion veered off into other Playing Now panel behaviour. Apologies for the duplicate thread.

Matt