bug#50907: 28.0.50; mpc: Can't add album to playlist

bug#50907: 28.0.50; mpc: Can't add album to playlist

[Stefan Kangas]

I can't add any album to the playlist in MPC.

    0. emacs -Q
    1. M-x mpc RET
    2. move point to "Albums | Playlists" window
    3. Pick any album, press RET

The result is that the playlist clears in Emacs and the songs get added
into the buffer.  However, if I try playing any song in the
"*MPC-Songs*" buffer, I get "This song is not in the playlist".  The
songs are also not added to the MPD playlist.

I expect that the playlist a) does *not* clear (items get appended
instead), b) that the songs are in fact added to the MPD playlist and
c) that I can play the songs.

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Maybe related:

If instead of pressing RET in step 3, I type `M-x mpc-playlist-add', I
get a message like "Appended 12 songs", but the old playlist is
unchanged in both Emacs and in MPD.

I'm not sure if my MPD client is in a weird state or something, but
ncmpcpp is still working as always.  What can I do to investigate this?

bug#50907: 28.0.50; mpc: Can't add album to playlist

[Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

> I can't add any album to the playlist in MPC.
>
>     0. emacs -Q
>     1. M-x mpc RET
>     2. move point to "Albums | Playlists" window
>     3. Pick any album, press RET

> The result is that the playlist clears in Emacs and the songs get added
> into the buffer.

I don't think so: *MPC-Songs* doesn't always show the playlist.
What RET does is that it selects the songs and shows you in *MPC-Songs*
the songs that were selected.  You can then add them to the playlist
with `mpc-playlist-add` if you want.

> However, if I try playing any song in the "*MPC-Songs*" buffer, I get
> "This song is not in the playlist".  The songs are also not added to
> the MPD playlist.

That's right.  If you want to see the playlist, try `mpc-playlist`.

One of the main ideas behind mpc.el is that you can play albums without
thinking about a playlist, just browse your music collection and hit
play when you've found the album/artist/playlist/... that you want to
listen to.


        Stefan