Feature request #499: REQUEST: Optionally do an explicit switch to a playlist prior to playing a song from that playlist

Based on this forum post:

https://wincent.dev/a/support/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1099

The salient user comment is this:

"Also when I select a song in a playlist I expect iTunes to keep playing from that playlist. When it is selected from Synergy Advance it plays that one song then stops."

My reply in the forums:

I'll have to look into this one. When you select a song from a playlist in Synergy Advance, Synergy Advance sends iTunes a request of the form, "Play track X of playlist Y". I wrote it that way because I basically expected iTunes to "do the right thing" with such a request.

It sounds like what you want Synergy Advance to do is send a slightly different command (two commands, actually), of the form, "Switch to playlist Y and then play track X".

I think that for many people the latter behaviour may be more intuitive, but it should be a user-settable preference because there will certainly be others that will prefer the existing behaviour.