[mythtv-users] Mythmusic can't save playlist

[Scott Harris]

>Hi there,
>
>Ok... recently I noticed that my main mythmusic playlist seems to 
>repeat itself a lot more often than it used to. Upon investigation I 
>noticed it only has about 100 tracks in it, as opposed to the 500+ it 
>used to.
>
>No problem, I thought, and set about rebuilding the playlist. I then 
>told it to save to existing playlist and saved it to the normal 
>everyday playlist.
>
>When I restarted Mythmusic, it was... well, not back to the previous 
>100 track thing, it now had 120 tracks.
>
>No problem, I thought, I'll just make a new playlist. So I removed all 
>tracks, and spent the better part of an hour remaking my playlist.
>
>I then hit Menu -> Playlist Options -> Save To New Playlist... and 
>nothing happens. No prompt, nothing in the logs.
>
>Yeah, I should've tested before I spent that time, but... help?...
You don't indicate what verison of MythTV which would be rather helpful. 
However, the current version of MythMusic ridiculously only saves such 
things as playlists when MythTV exits (the original dev of MythMusic 
0.26 no longer works on the project has acknowledged this is a bit silly 
and has a fork which fixes this (among all lot of other complaints about 
the current incarnation of MythMusic)....which apparently isn't worthy 
of being merged into the main code....as I understand it).

To make matters worse, the only acceptable way to exit MythTV to have 
that save be done is to "Exit->Yes Exit MythTV" any other method "Yes, 
Exit and shut down", "Yes exit and reboot", etc apparently does not shut 
down MythTV "properly" so the MythMusic stuff does not get saved.  This 
of course confuses most people because it's a function being executed 
from within Myth, not some voodoo we've concocted so we can't really 
understand why it shouldn't "just work" as Linux likes to claim.

Anyways, to end this long story.  Make you changes, exit to the main 
menu.  Press esc, choose "Yes, Exit MythTV", restart MythTV and your 
changes should persist.  Simple, right?