PodWorks transfers playlists in sorted order, not true playlist order

When transferring playlists to iTunes via PodWorks, PodWorks structures the playlists with songs as they appear in the PodWorks window. The problem is that if you sort the PodWorks view, PodWorks will then transfer your songs in the sorted order as they appear in the PodWorks window, regardless of whether or not the unsorted playlist actually lists the songs in that order.

For example, say you have the playlist "Alphabet" on your iPod, and you've ordered the songs in this fashion: "Z", "X", "P", "L", "R", "Y", "B", "G", "H". In the PodWorks window, if you click on the blank column header to sort by the custom playlist order, you should see the songs listed in this format. Now, if you tell PodWorks to transfer the playlist over, it'll transfer them in this order. This is the true playlist order.

Now, however, click on the "Title" column header to sort the playlist by track name. PodWorks will now show the sorted playlist in this fashion: "B", "G", "H", "L", "P", "R", "X", "Y", "Z". If you tell PodWorks to transfer the playlist over now, it'll transfer them in the *sorted* order! This is bad, because this doesn't actually reflect the true playlist order.

You're actually losing data when PodWorks transfers like this. iTunes can easily sort by track name or by any of the other criteria that PodWorks can use to sort. So there's no reason to transfer the sort order to the playlist order — the user can easily do that in two short steps in iTunes if they want to.

The problem is that PodWorks retains the selected sort column if you start viewing a different playlist in PodWorks. So you might accidentally initiate a transfer, not realizing that there's a sort order in place.

The fix would seem to be pretty evident: make PodWorks always transfer playlists in the true playlist order.