Renamed Playlists aren't sorted alphabetically until restart

[Gruntzen]

When a playlist is renamed, it maintains the position on the list that it occupied before the rename.

For Example, if a user has three playlists named "New Music" "Pop" and "Soundtrack", they are listed alphabetically as

[New Music]
[Pop]
[Soundtrack]

but if "Soundtrack" is renamed to "Instrumental", the alphabetization is disrupted, and the list reads

[New Music]
[Pop]
[Instrumental]

but it should immediately re-alphabetize based on the new name, like so:

[Instrumental]
[New Music]
[Pop]

The same applies to new playlists, as they are named "New Playlist" automatically, and therefore are placed under "N" and remain there until Rhythmbox is restarted.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen (mikini)]

I still see this same problem on Ubuntu 16.04 using Rhythmbox 3.3:

$ dpkg -l rhythmbox |tail -1
ii rhythmbox 3.3-1ubuntu7 amd64 music player and organizer for GNOME

There is an upstream report about missing playlist sorting. Maybe it is related, although a bit vague in its wording: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues/1110