I'm listening to a playlist in the living-room.  I decide that I'd like
to hear it in the kitchen as well, perhaps replacing whatever playlist
is in the kitchen at the moment.  How do I do it?

The answer seems to be that it depends on which mechanism I'm using to
synchronise.

I *think* that if I'm using the IR remote or the Controller, then I
need to tell the living room to sync with the kitchen. This is slightly
counter-intuitive to me, as "sync with" implies to me that the current
player will start playing whatever is playing on the other player; but
after several attempts, I'm fairly sure that it's the other way round.
So I should think of it as "pushing" the current player's playlist to
the "sync with" player. I guess that "push" makes more sense if you're
syncing multiple players.

However, today I happened to be using the (default) webface when I
wanted to sync; and so, following the same logic, I made sure that the
current player was Living Room, went to Audio / Sync, chose Kitchen
from the list and hit Apply.  Hey presto! My carefully-constructed
living-room playlist was unrecoverably overwritten with the album I'd
been playing in the kitchen last night.  Grr!

All the documentation I've seen on synchronisation (OK, a quick skim of
the manuals and a quick search of the wiki) makes no mention whatsoever
of how to make sure that sync happens in a particular direction.  So is
there a definitive statement about this somewhere?

Yes, I know about GrabPlaylist, but that's not what I wanted in this
case, as I really did want the players to be in sync, and didn't want
to lose the playlist from the living-room. 

-- Brian


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