Semi-random songs added randomly to playlist [bug]

So I've come across this one weird bug, I opened up a playlist I created recently and oddly enough new songs had been added in the middle of the playlist that I haven't added myself. And it's a private playlist. I say semi-random songs because there were only songs from other playlists, starred songs or songs added to my collection. I do not know what caused this bug. My only usage recently has been listening to playlists.I'm using the spotify webplayer on firefox 39, windows 7 64bit. I doubt that has any relevance to the cause, but now you know.Curious if there's anyone else having experienced the same issue or if this is an isolated case.

Cat, Thank you for your input. I got it to work but not exactly the way you said, and it took me a couple of tries before I got it embedded in my brain. So here is what I did. I brought up my playlist Dan, and added some songs. While in the playlist I went to the main menu and clicked on NOW PLAYING. It brought me back to the song that was playing. I then clicked OK and this showed all the tracks now in the play list. I highlighted one of the tracks and clicked OK. Then I clicked on SAVE AS PLAYLIST, Wrote Dan
and then YES to overwrite. Although I clicked on only one track, it added all the new tracks to Dan. Whew! Not exactly creating a permanent playlist on the fly, and if I was to start from scratch, I would have the name of my playlist one letter long. Is this the way it is supposed to be? I suggest a firmware upgrade that when you press ADD TO SELECTED that does it, and not going through all this other stuff.
Dan

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