Comment by at_a_remove

Oh, no, I tried with very simple setups. Believe me. Down to a playlist of a single song consisting of a single word. No love.

In a rather similar fashion, I managed to reverse engineer the Roku's very, uh, idiosyncratic interpretation of the, well, was it ever a standard? In any case, Roku's Media Player app had, charmingly, decided to simply ignore the order of the songs in the playlist and -- this was fun to figure out -- grab the metadata of the songs and do it by a regular sort of the track number. It's brilliantly stupid, because it'd work just fine if you had a playlist of a single album. There, it makes perfect sense. Nowhere else.