smartplaylist plugin does not retain order of queries #6183
Description
Problem
Running this command in verbose (-vv) mode:
$ beet -vv splupdateLed to this problem:
user configuration: /home/user/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /home/user/.config/beets
plugin paths: []
Loading plugins: smartplaylist
Sending event: pluginload
library database: /music/beets/musiclibrary.db
library directory: /music/Library
Sending event: library_opened
Parsed query: AndQuery([SubstringQuery('artist', 'Lost Years', fast=True), SubstringQuery('album', 'Pressure', fast=True)])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([SubstringQuery('artist', 'Turbo', fast=True), OrQuery([SubstringQuery('artist', 'Knight', fast=True), SubstringQuery('title', 'Knight', fast=True), SubstringQuery('comments', 'Knight', fast=True), SubstringQuery('album', 'Knight', fast=True), SubstringQuery('albumartist', 'Knight', fast=True), SubstringQuery('genre', 'Knight', fast=True)])])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Parsed query: AndQuery([SubstringQuery('artist', 'Deorro', fast=True), OrQuery([SubstringQuery('artist', 'Five Hours', fast=True), SubstringQuery('title', 'Five Hours', fast=True), SubstringQuery('comments', 'Five Hours', fast=True), SubstringQuery('album', 'Five Hours', fast=True), SubstringQuery('albumartist', 'Five Hours', fast=True), SubstringQuery('genre', 'Five Hours', fast=True)])])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
smartplaylist: Updating 1 smart playlists...
smartplaylist: Creating playlist neRd-test.m3u
Sending event: smartplaylist_update
smartplaylist: 1 playlists updated
Sending event: cli_exit
Here's a link to the music files that trigger the bug (if relevant): Happens with any music file
Setup
- OS: Kubuntu 25.04
- Python version: 3.13.3
- beets version: 2.5.1
- Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no - I disabled everything but
smartplaylistand still have this issue
My configuration (output of beet config) is:
directory: /music/Library
library: /music/beets/musiclibrary.db
# library: ~/.config/beets/musiclibrary.db
artist_credit: no
replace: {
"“": '',
"”": '',
'"': "",
"’": "'",
# remove ascii control characters
'[\x00-\x1f]': "_",
# spaces at the beginning and and
'\s+$': "",
'^\s+': "",
":": "",
"\\?": "",
}
plugins:
- smartplaylist
smartplaylist:
auto: yes
relative_to: /music/Playlists
playlist_dir: /music/Playlists
forward_slash: yes
playlists:
- name: "neRd-test.m3u"
query:
- "'artist:Lost Years' album:Pressure"
- "artist:Turbo Knight"
- "artist:Deorro 'Five Hours'"I expected the order of the playlist to be the following:
- Lost Years' Pressure
- All tracks by Turbo Knight
- Deorro's Five Hours
Instead, the playlist was populated like so:
- Deorro's Five Hours
- Lost Years' Pressure
- All tracks by Turbo Knight