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 <blockquote>in the meantime you should probably use another layout, I would suggest "list library and context"</blockquote>

I get problems with this layout too, though they are slightly different problems.

I go to the Library tab, and the Saved tab under it, and then to "Saved lists".  Clicking on that brings up a list in the lower right (not in the left pane with the playlists).  This list, however, is not ordered in the same order as the items in the playlist.  It appears to be ordered according to the "Sort" option in the lower right pane.

The only way to play in the playlist order seems to be to use "Playlist filter".  It seems odd that "Saved lists" from that menu works while "Saved lists" from the Library and Saved tabs doesn't.

The "Playlist filter" and "Saved lists" in that allows me to choose a playlist and it appears to work.  However, for some reason (bug?) it doesn't put a checkmark before the selected list.

Another bug: When I chose this layout for the first time, the "Sort" in the lower right pane did not have any option checked.  However, it was still working in a particular sort order (looked like album/track).  This sort order should have been checked since that is what it was using.

I can use settings/"check now" and "scan now" to scan for new songs.  But how do I scan for new *cover art*?  I just want to keep exactly the same songs I have now and look only for changes in cover art associated with those songs.

I am using "Playlist" layout.

The list is imported from a .m3u file by right-clicking om "Saved lists" and selecting "Import list".  I assume this is always a static list.

Currently, to play a list in its order you can :
- select it the filter menu (or via the "saved lists"/saved panes) and select "list order" in the play order menu

This doesn't work and a good portion of my post describes in detail how it doesn't work.  "List order" doesn't actually give me the list order.  Rather, "List order" behaves the same as whatever was selected before the "List order" option was present.  For instance, if I start up the program (at which point I am not on a list and there is no "List order" option), and select "Date", then select a list this way and select "List order", it is ordered by date, not by list order, even though it looks like "List order" is selected.

- double clicking on a song in the edit list window

This did work, but it's a little unwieldy, because I have to do it every time. 

- double clicking on a song in a list tab of a tabbedlists widget (right click on a tab to open a new tab)

I have no idea how to determine if I have a tabbedlists widget. or which layout might contain one.

the play order is often set independently from the filter/static list, and the "list order" option only appear when in "static list" mode

The "list order" option always appears for me when I am on a list.  As I pointed out, it actually appears too much--I start up the program and am on Album/All Albums.  The "list order" option is not present.  I then select a list from "Saved lists".  The "list order" option is present.  I then go back to Album/All Albums.  I would expect the "List order" option to disappear but it remains there.

the "saved list"/saved pane is very misleading, as it only allows you select a filter (is in selected list(s))

If so, then
1) Right above "Saved lists" is "Saved filters".  If "Saved lists" only allows selecting a filter, what does "Saved filters" do?  Shouldn't "Saved lists" be part of "Saved filters"?
2) On the top of my screen is a little icon.  I click on that icon and it shows me "Saved lists" followed by a bunch of filters.  This looks a lot like the same thing that appears in the pane, which is also a bunch of filters followed by "Saved lists".  Is this icon different from the pane?  It looks to me like the icon actually is putting the songs in list order, while the pane is not--even though the icon looks similar to the pane.

I found out that if I go to edit playlist, and I click on one of the songs *within the editing window*, the playlist in the playlist window changes to the one I'm actually editing.  If I then close the editing window, the playlist window continues to show the correct playlist.  However, this isn't really a solution; the information is not saved between sessions (and probably not from one playlist to another), and changing the play order gives strange results that sometimes restore the playlist order and sometimes don't.

Furthermore, I found another manifestation of the problem.  When I start up gmusicbrowser I start up in Album/All Albums.  Album/All Albums does not have a "List Order" in the Play Order.  When I then go to Saved Lists and click on the playlist, the play order menu now shows "List Order", but the *actual* play order is still whatever it was before.

For instance, if I change the Play Order to "Title", the All Albums are sorted by title--and then when I go to a playlist the "List Order" is really sorting by title too.

Although Album/All Albums did not have a "List Order" in the menu, going to the playlist adds that menu option, and then going back to Album/All Albums leaves the menu option, so I have "List Order" for something that isn't a list (and doesn't perform a list order function).

At this point I think it's obvious that there's some kind of bug here.

gmusicbrowser 1.1.9.

I want to import a .m3u file.  I can do so by going to "saved lists" and right-clicking, then Import.  However, if I do this it creates the new playlist in a bizarre order.  I want it to create the playlist with the songs in the same order in which they appear in the .m3u file.  How do I do this?

The odd part is that if I *edit* the playlist, the songs appear in the order in which they appear in the .m3u file, but there seems to be no way to actually play them in the order in which they appear in the .m3u file.  (Playing them in "list order" plays them in the bizarre order I described earlier, not in the order they appeared in the .m3u file.)