>It doesn't work properly when you are in playlist mode and you press
>play from a custom browse menu using Erland's Custom Browse plugin. And
>by that I mean the play button replaces the playlist when you use it in
>a custom browse menu, but adds next when you use it from a regular SC
>menu.
>
All third-party plugins are likely to have issues like that, unless/until they 
are written to check what the current mode is, I would guess.
Unless the commands that the plugins execute to perform a play action are 
intercepted and re-routed to perform add operations, including CLI commands.

>I feel that a simple prompt at any point where the playlist could
>potentially be wiped/altered would be a better approach.
>
I guess that could be added as another playlist mode (i.e. don't prompt in 
disabled/off/playlist/party mode, only when mode is "confirmations").

If they get rid of the hotkeys that are configured to only swap between 
mode=off and mode=playlist, it would make more sense - the user would go to 
playlist setting, and pick the mode they are most comfortable with using.

Another solution would be to also keep a history of previous now playing 
playlists.  Each time play is pressed that clears the current playlist with a 
different content, the previous content could be stored.  If someone makes a 
mistake and loses a playlist, they could go somewhere like Browse Playlists -> 
Playlist Backups, and could play/add from that.  Perhaps store the date/time as 
the playlist name, and keep/list the last 5 historic playlists.

I'd find that a lot more useful, not only for accidental playlist deletion 
(which I never accidentally do), but as a temporary buffer for when I want to 
play a radio station or something else, and then go back to what I was 
previously playing.  It would avoid the need to use "Save Playlist" and enter a 
temporary playlist name.

>If you could also prompt before deleting songs when pressing add in the
>NP list, that would be good too. And *please* add one for whatever it is
>that wipes the whole darn list because I did that by accident last night
>and still don't know what I did to cause it.
>
You probably pressed the add button whilst sitting on the Now Playing menu 
option, which performs a remove all action.
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