Provide an option to disable sorting playlists when you click column header

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Author Name: audacious destroysplaylists
Original Redmine Issue: https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/1133
Original Date: 2021-11-02

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Audacious allows the user to order the tracks in a playlist as they see fit.
And I have been making extensive use of that to keep track of stuff.

But at the same time audacious will immediately sort by title/artist/album/etc if you click on one of the column headers in the list view, and gives you no way to Undo this operation.

Those column headers are immediately underneath the playlist tabs.
It's extremely easy to accidentally click on one of those when you're aiming for the tabs.

And this has happened to me countless times already, ruining carefully ordered playlists.

To me this is like having a text editor or something with a big row of useless buttons underneath the menubar that permanently delete all your work if you accidentally click on them.
It makes audacious far less useful for managing large playlists for sure

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Artem S. Tashkinov
Original Date: 2021-11-10T10:56:09Z

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Had we had undo/redo that wouldn't have been an issue.

https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/544
https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/issues/1095

Patches are welcome. Maintainers are busy with their lives.

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: John Lindgren
Original Date: 2021-11-13T02:15:38Z

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I agree that an "undo" command would be the best solution here. Disabling various ways of editing the playlist because it might ... edit the playlist ... seems less than ideal.

Until that is implemented, you can of course easily back up your playlists to avoid losing work:
@cp -a ~/.config/audacious/playlists ~/.config/audacious/playlists-backup@

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Heitor Rojas
Original Date: 2022-03-13T01:19:11Z

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Uncheck "show headers column" in settings is a good solution for me once the columns are ordered for my need.

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Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Thomas Lange
Original Date: 2024-01-28T01:45:59Z

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I have added a setting for the column headers to disable the sorting of playlists.
An undo functionality is too complex and not going to be added in the near future.

• audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins@96f7a85
• audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins@e69b85e