Bug 234253 - Saving of playlists in Amarok has reproducable issues that make them very difficult to edit
Summary: Saving of playlists in Amarok has reproducable issues that make them very dif...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: Playlists/Saved Playlists (show other bugs)
Version: 2.3.0
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
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Reported: 2010-04-13 15:03 UTC by Blackpaw
Modified: 2010-07-15 11:00 UTC (History)
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Description Blackpaw 2010-04-13 15:03:25 UTC
Version:           2.3.0 (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-20-generic

Using Amarok 2.3 in Kubuntu Lucid Beta 2. 

Editing the current list, then saving it to the internal database only saves the original song s in it.

Steps:
1. Select and existing internal playlist and replace the current playlist with it.
2. Use the media sources view to add extra songs to the running playlist
3. Click save - the new internal playlist will only contain the original songs, not the ones added. This happens everytime.
4. Drag and drop of of the songs added to the  playlist in (2) to any internal playlist fails - a random selection of sounds from 1 will be added.

It appears that new songs added to the current playlist give issues with regards to saving and Drag&Drop.

Side note:Calling the currently playing song list a playlist just like the saved playlists makes it very difficult to describe these issues.
Comment 1 Blackpaw 2010-04-13 15:16:16 UTC
p.s I work round this at the moment by editing playlists, then exporting them to .m3u, then using dolphin to open the .m3u in Amarok, then they can successfully be saved to an internal playlist.
Comment 2 Bart Cerneels 2010-07-15 11:00:15 UTC
Actually, what is really happening is that you are creating a new saved playlist (providing you press the save button). If you are not seeing that new one that is the actual bug.

The playlist on the right, I call this the queue or play queue to avoid confusion and because that is it's function. There is no consensus between us developers to rename it though.

If you want to edit an existing playlist you can not use the queue but need to drop tracks you want to add on the playlist in "Saved Playlists" on the right.
I've got feedback that the current tree view is not usable for that and dragging from collection directly to a saved playlist is impossible. There are plans to improve that.

Please reopen if the new saved playlist does not appear.

Bart