Playlists reordering at random to A-Z, losing Playlist #

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richiefinger
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Playlists reordering at random to A-Z, losing Playlist #

Post by richiefinger »

This bug has been reported in one way, I'm making sure its totally fixed?
At random playlists sort by A-Z and the playlist numbering is lost permanently!!!
This is such a major bug and I urge you to put it at the top of the list to fix.

Whilst trying to add even one track to an existing playlist you can lose the playlist order of the entire list, rendering playlists useless if you actually want to listen to the tracks in the correct order.

The method of moving tracks around in the playlist could really do with some refining too.
If your playlist is larger than one page the scrolling action of dragging a track up towards the top activates the scrolling action of the entire page at the same time. This really should be looked at and a different way implemented.
Also the option to renumber a playlist by typing the playlist number would make life a lot easier
Lowlander
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Re: Playlists reordering at random to A-Z, losing Playlist #

Post by Lowlander »

Please provide the Build (Help > About) and exact steps to reproduce this.
richiefinger
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Re: Playlists reordering at random to A-Z, losing Playlist #

Post by richiefinger »

Same problem on latest dl version from site and later test version ( will fill version # when back from the pub).

Nothing I've noticed seems to trigger it, totally random.

Using the playlist editor doesn't seem to make it trip up.
Just drag and dropping one track to another position in the tracklist in the main browser.
Sometimes nothing will happen.
Sometimes the list will reorder A-Z but the play list numbers will remain. Clicking on the # will put it back in the correct order.
Sometimes the list will reorder A-Z and the playlist numbers will match the alphabetical order.
Sometimes when this happens opening another playlist and coming back resets to correct order, sometimes not.
MP3, FLAC , no track numbers in tags, different source folders, same source folder , all same result eventually.

What would be nice is if the playlist editor would move all the text to one line when expanded wide enough, at the moment the album,/artist info underneath stays underneath. This uses up valuable screen real estate. The big difference against MM4 is how many lines you get on a screen. It's very tiresome using the playlist editor if you have more than 50 or so tracks to put in order. Being able to see more lines in the screen in the playlist editor would make life a lot easier.
Lowlander
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Re: Playlists reordering at random to A-Z, losing Playlist #

Post by Lowlander »

Please capture this in a debug log (step 4b) and attach the log to a Support Ticket.

This will help a developer analyze why this happens in your setup.
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