diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.dom.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.dom.test.ts
index 88003698..8b6d6129 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.dom.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.dom.test.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ describe("useUndoable", () => {
     expect(result.current.value).toEqual([10, 20]);
   });
 
+  it("peeks at a value set in this tick, before it renders", () => {
+    const { result } = renderHook(() => useUndoable<number[]>([1]));
+    const { peek, set } = result.current;
+    act(() => {
+      set([1, 2]);
+      expect(peek()).toEqual([1, 2]);
+    });
+    expect(peek()).toEqual([1, 2]);
+  });
+
   it("keeps the undo history through a rebase", () => {
     const { result } = renderHook(() => useUndoable<number[]>([1]));
     act(() => result.current.set([1, 2]));
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.ts b/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.ts
index 99505d4f..5e3caf21 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/useUndoable.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ import { useLatest } from "./useLatest";
 // Render never reads the ref: a compiled component would otherwise memoize a stale value.
 export interface Undoable<T> {
   value: T;
+  /** The value as of NOW, with a `set` not rendered yet, for code that runs after an await. */
+  peek: () => T;
   set: (next: T) => void;
   reset: (value: T) => void;
   rebase: (map: (value: T) => T) => void;
@@ -110,8 +112,11 @@ export function useUndoable<T>(
     setH(over);
   }, []);
 
+  const peek = useCallback(() => ref.current.present, []);
+
   return {
     value: h.present,
+    peek,
     set,
     reset,
     rebase,
diff --git a/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.dom.test.tsx
index deb5e9b1..3e3b2dcf 100644
--- a/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.dom.test.tsx
@@ -2290,12 +2290,15 @@ describe("Playlists — writes that overlap", () => {
   };
 
   it("keeps a row out when a read sent before its removal lands after it, and its history too", async () => {
-    vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockResolvedValue(undefined as never);
+    const lists = { 1: [...abc()[1], vid("D", 0)] };
+    vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockImplementation((async () => {
+      lists[1] = [vid("A", 0), vid("C", 0), vid("B", 0), vid("D", 0)];
+    }) as never);
     const second = later<unknown>();
     vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist")
       .mockResolvedValueOnce(wentOut("A") as never)
       .mockReturnValueOnce(second.promise as never);
-    mount({ 1: [...abc()[1], vid("D", 0)] });
+    mount(lists);
     await inPage();
     await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
     await waitFor(() => expect(undoOrder().disabled).toBe(false));
@@ -2591,16 +2594,17 @@ describe("Playlists — writes that overlap", () => {
   });
 
   it("keeps a row out, and the history, when a read from before its removal landed and a patch comes after", async () => {
-    vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockResolvedValue(undefined as never);
     const write = later<unknown>();
     vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist").mockReturnValue(write.promise as never);
     const lists = abc();
+    vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockImplementation((async () => {
+      lists[1] = [vid("A", 0), vid("C", 0), vid("B", 0)];
+    }) as never);
     mount(lists);
     await inPage();
     await landed();
     await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
     await waitFor(() => expect(undoOrder().disabled).toBe(false));
-    lists[1] = [vid("A", 0), vid("C", 0), vid("B", 0)];
     await landed();
     await removeRow("Video A", "Video C", "Video B");
     await act(async () => {
@@ -2704,6 +2708,261 @@ describe("Playlists — writes that overlap", () => {
     await waitFor(() => expect(restore).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, ["B"], [2]));
   });
 
+  describe("the order on the server", () => {
+    it("asks for an Undo's place only when the last of two writes out has landed", async () => {
+      const writes = [later<unknown>(), later<unknown>()];
+      const restore = vi
+        .spyOn(api, "restoreToPlaylist")
+        .mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, added: 1 } as never);
+      const lists = abc();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist")
+        .mockImplementationOnce((async () => wentOut("D")) as never)
+        .mockReturnValueOnce(writes[0]!.promise as never)
+        .mockReturnValueOnce(writes[1]!.promise as never);
+      mount({ 1: [...lists[1], vid("D", 0)] });
+      vi.mocked(api.playlist).mockImplementation((async (id: number) =>
+        list(id, lists[1])) as never);
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      await removeRow("Video D", "Video A", "Video B", "Video C");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(lastUndo()).toBeTruthy());
+      const undo = lastUndo()!;
+      await landed();
+      await removeRow("Video A", "Video B", "Video C");
+      await removeRow("Video B", "Video C");
+      await act(async () => undo.action!.onClick());
+      await act(async () => writes[0]!.ok(wentOut("A")));
+      await landed();
+      expect(restore).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      await act(async () => writes[1]!.ok(wentOut("B")));
+      await waitFor(() => expect(restore).toHaveBeenCalled());
+    });
+
+    const named = (lists: Record<number, Video[]>, id: number, ids: readonly string[]) => {
+      lists[id] = ids.map((v) => vid(v, 0));
+    };
+    const onList = async (id: number, title: string, rerender: () => void) => {
+      h.selectedId = id;
+      rerender();
+      await screen.findByRole("button", { name: `card.play — ${title}` });
+      await landed();
+    };
+
+    it("shows an order changed elsewhere, and forgets the history of the one it replaces", async () => {
+      const lists = abc();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockImplementation((async (id: 1, ids: string[]) => {
+        named(lists, id, ids);
+      }) as never);
+      mount(lists);
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(undoOrder().disabled).toBe(false));
+      await landed();
+      // A revert to YouTube, another device, a sync: the same rows, in another order.
+      named(lists, 1, ["B", "A", "C"]);
+      await act(async () => {
+        await qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlist(1) });
+      });
+      await waitFor(() => expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video B", "Video A", "Video C"]));
+      expect(undoOrder().disabled).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it("keeps the history when a read only confirms the reorder", async () => {
+      const lists = abc();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockImplementation((async (id: 1, ids: string[]) => {
+        named(lists, id, ids);
+      }) as never);
+      mount(lists);
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(undoOrder().disabled).toBe(false));
+      await act(async () => {
+        await qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlist(1) });
+      });
+      await landed();
+      expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video A", "Video C", "Video B"]);
+      expect(undoOrder().disabled).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it("waits with an order changed elsewhere until no list has a write out", async () => {
+      const post = later<unknown>();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist").mockReturnValue(post.promise as never);
+      const lists: Record<number, Video[]> = { 1: [vid("A", 0)], 2: [vid("X", 0), vid("Y", 0)] };
+      const { rerender } = mount(lists);
+      await play("Video A");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(h.player).not.toBeNull());
+      await onList(2, "Video Y", rerender);
+      // The open player removes from the list it was launched from: a write out, on another list.
+      act(() => void h.player!.onRemoveFromList!(vid("A", 0)));
+      await landed();
+      named(lists, 2, ["Y", "X"]);
+      await act(async () => {
+        await qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlist(2) });
+      });
+      await landed();
+      expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video X", "Video Y"]);
+      await act(async () => post.ok(wentOut("A")));
+      await waitFor(() => expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video Y", "Video X"]));
+    });
+
+    it("shows a reorder accepted after its list was picked again", async () => {
+      const put = later<unknown>();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockReturnValue(put.promise as never);
+      const lists: Record<number, Video[]> = { ...abc(), 2: [vid("X", 0)] };
+      const { rerender } = mount(lists);
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      qc.setQueryData(qk.playlist(2), list(2, lists[2]!));
+      await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(api.reorderPlaylist).toHaveBeenCalled());
+      await onList(2, "Video X", rerender);
+      await onList(1, "Video A", rerender);
+      named(lists, 1, ["A", "C", "B"]);
+      await act(async () => put.ok(undefined));
+      await waitFor(() => expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video A", "Video C", "Video B"]));
+    });
+
+    it("keeps another list's history when a failure's read lands after a reorder there began", async () => {
+      const put = later<unknown>();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockReturnValue(put.promise as never);
+      vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist").mockRejectedValue(new TypeError("Failed to fetch"));
+      const lists: Record<number, Video[]> = { ...abc(), 2: [vid("X", 0), vid("Y", 0)] };
+      const { rerender } = mount(lists);
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      qc.setQueryData(qk.playlist(2), list(2, lists[2]!));
+      const read = later<unknown>();
+      vi.mocked(api.playlist).mockReturnValue(read.promise as never);
+      await rowMenu("Video C", "playlists.removeItem");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(h.notify).toHaveBeenCalled());
+      await landed();
+      await onList(2, "Video Y", rerender);
+      await rowMenu("Video Y", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(api.reorderPlaylist).toHaveBeenCalled());
+      vi.mocked(api.playlist).mockImplementation((async (id: number) =>
+        list(id, lists[id] ?? [])) as never);
+      await act(async () => read.ok(list(1, lists[1]!)));
+      await landed();
+      named(lists, 2, ["Y", "X"]);
+      await act(async () => put.ok(undefined));
+      await landed();
+      expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video Y", "Video X"]);
+      expect(undoOrder().disabled).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it("shows the server's place for a row whose removal failed on a list left meanwhile", async () => {
+      const post = later<unknown>();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist").mockReturnValue(post.promise as never);
+      const lists: Record<number, Video[]> = {
+        1: [vid("A", 0), vid("B", 0), vid("C", 0), vid("D", 0)],
+        2: [vid("X", 0)],
+      };
+      // The server keeps a row the PUT does not name after the ones it does.
+      vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockImplementation((async (id: 1, ids: string[]) => {
+        named(lists, id, [...ids, "B"]);
+      }) as never);
+      const { rerender } = mount(lists);
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      qc.setQueryData(qk.playlist(2), list(2, lists[2]!));
+      await removeRow("Video B", "Video A", "Video C", "Video D");
+      await rowMenu("Video D", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(api.reorderPlaylist).toHaveBeenCalled());
+      await landed();
+      await onList(2, "Video X", rerender);
+      await act(async () => post.no(new TypeError("Failed to fetch")));
+      await landed();
+      await onList(1, "Video A", rerender);
+      await waitFor(() =>
+        expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video A", "Video D", "Video C", "Video B"]),
+      );
+    });
+
+    it("sends a list's reorders one after the other", async () => {
+      const first = later<unknown>();
+      const reorder = vi
+        .spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist")
+        .mockReturnValueOnce(first.promise as never)
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce(undefined as never);
+      mount(abc());
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video A", "Video C", "Video B"]));
+      await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(rowsOnScreen()).toEqual(["Video C", "Video A", "Video B"]));
+      await landed();
+      expect(reorder).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      await act(async () => first.ok(undefined));
+      await waitFor(() => expect(reorder).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
+      expect(reorder).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(1, ["C", "A", "B"]);
+    });
+
+    it("keeps a stored position that landed during a reorder when the read after it fails", async () => {
+      const put = later<unknown>();
+      vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockReturnValue(put.promise as never);
+      mount(abc());
+      await inPage();
+      await landed();
+      await rowMenu("Video C", "common.order.up");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(api.reorderPlaylist).toHaveBeenCalled());
+      act(() => patchCachedProgress(qc, new Map([["C", 830]])));
+      await landed();
+      vi.mocked(api.playlist).mockRejectedValue(new TypeError("Failed to fetch"));
+      await act(async () => put.ok(undefined));
+      await landed();
+      await play("Video C");
+      await waitFor(() => expect(h.player?.video.position_seconds).toBe(830));
+    });
+
+    it.each([
+      ["a removal", "Video A", ["B", "D"], 1],
+      ["a reorder", "Video D", ["A", "D", "B"], 3],
+    ] as const)(
+      "asks for an Undo's place only when %s still out has landed",
+      async (kind, title, after, at) => {
+        const write = later<unknown>();
+        const restore = vi
+          .spyOn(api, "restoreToPlaylist")
+          .mockResolvedValue({ ok: true, added: 1 } as never);
+        const lists: Record<number, Video[]> = {
+          1: [vid("A", 0), vid("B", 0), vid("C", 0), vid("D", 0)],
+        };
+        const remove = vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist");
+        remove.mockImplementationOnce((async () => {
+          lists[1] = lists[1]!.filter((v) => v.id !== "C");
+          return wentOut("C");
+        }) as never);
+        vi.spyOn(api, "reorderPlaylist").mockReturnValue(write.promise as never);
+        mount(lists);
+        await inPage();
+        await landed();
+        await removeRow("Video C", "Video A", "Video B", "Video D");
+        await waitFor(() => expect(lastUndo()).toBeTruthy());
+        const undo = lastUndo()!;
+        await landed();
+        if (kind === "a removal") {
+          remove.mockReturnValueOnce(write.promise as never);
+          await removeRow(title, "Video B", "Video D");
+        } else {
+          await rowMenu(title, "common.order.up");
+          await waitFor(() => expect(api.reorderPlaylist).toHaveBeenCalled());
+        }
+        await landed();
+        const before = reads();
+        await act(async () => undo.action!.onClick());
+        await landed();
+        expect(reads()).toBe(before);
+        expect(restore).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+        named(lists, 1, after);
+        await act(async () => write.ok(wentOut("A")));
+        await waitFor(() => expect(restore).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, ["C"], [at]));
+      },
+    );
+  });
+
   it("speaks of one video when one row found nothing to do", async () => {
     vi.spyOn(api, "removeManyFromPlaylist").mockResolvedValue(wentOut() as never);
     mount(abc());
@@ -2891,6 +3150,24 @@ describe("Playlists — the focus when what holds it goes", () => {
       expect(document.activeElement?.closest("table")).toBeNull();
     });
 
+    it("does not count on Play all, disabled by the last row going, to take it back", async () => {
+      mountList([vid("A", 0)], "A");
+      const all = await screen.findByRole<HTMLButtonElement>("button", {
+        name: "playlists.playAll",
+      });
+      all.focus();
+      fireEvent.click(all);
+      await waitFor(() => expect(h.mounted).toBe(true));
+      card = document.createElement("div");
+      card.tabIndex = -1;
+      document.body.appendChild(card);
+      card.focus();
+      await removeFromPlayer(vid("A", 0));
+      await waitFor(() => expect(all.disabled).toBe(true));
+      close();
+      await waitFor(() => expect(document.activeElement).not.toBe(document.body));
+    });
+
     it("moves nothing while the one that opened it is still there", async () => {
       mount({ 1: [vid("A", 0), vid("B", 0)] });
       await openFrom("Video B");
diff --git a/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.tsx b/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.tsx
index 8bc34054..9a35ec45 100644
--- a/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/modules/playlists/Playlists.tsx
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ const idsKey = (items: Video[]) =>
     .sort()
     .join(",");
 
+const orderOf = (items: Video[]) => items.map((v) => v.id).join(",");
+
 const moveTargetIcon = (pl: Playlist) =>
   pl.source === "youtube" || pl.yt_playlist_id ? (
     <YouTubeIcon className="w-4 h-4" />
@@ -315,9 +317,11 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
   // only a row's own fields, a stored position, are taken.
   const writesOut = useRef(new Map<number, { count: number; before?: PlaylistDetail }>());
   const refreshDue = useRef(new Set<string>());
-  // A rollback sets rows back by what the cache held, which an accepted reorder may have moved on from,
-  // and the membership guard never corrects an order: the read after the last write decides it.
-  const orderInDoubt = useRef(false);
+  // The last reorder sent on each list. Each is the whole list and the server applies what it is given,
+  // so the next one waits for it: two side by side could reach the server's lock either way round.
+  const reordersOut = useRef(new Map<number, Promise<unknown>>());
+  // Who waits for a list's writes to land (see `writesLanded`).
+  const landingWaits = useRef(new Map<number, (() => void)[]>());
   // The stored order is undoable: drag and "save this order" both go through `order.set`, so each
   // is reversible (buttons + Ctrl+Z/Y). onApply persists the new order to the server.
   const order = useUndoable<Video[]>([], {
@@ -325,36 +329,39 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
       if (selectedId == null) return;
       const listId = selectedId;
       writeStarts(listId);
-      api
-        .reorderPlaylist(
-          listId,
-          next.map((v) => v.id),
+      const sent = (reordersOut.current.get(listId) ?? Promise.resolve())
+        .then(() =>
+          api.reorderPlaylist(
+            listId,
+            next.map((v) => v.id),
+          ),
         )
         .then(() => {
           // Write the accepted order into the cache BEFORE the refetch. The cache is what
           // `restoreFromCache` rolls back to, and until this refetch landed it still held the order
           // from before this reorder — so a SECOND reorder failing in that window rolled the rows
-          // back to an order the server does not have, permanently (the membership guard cannot
-          // correct an order). One accepted write, one cache entry that matches it.
+          // back to an order the server does not have. One accepted write, one cache entry that
+          // matches it.
           // A row taken out while this was on its way stays out: `next` is from before that. A row it
           // does not name stays too, after the ones it does, where the server keeps it: one whose
-          // removal failed meanwhile, or that came in from elsewhere.
+          // removal failed meanwhile, or that came in from elsewhere. Each row as the cache has it: a
+          // stored position may have landed since `next` was made.
           writeDone(listId);
           qc.setQueryData<PlaylistDetail>(qk.playlist(listId), (old) => {
             if (!old) return old;
-            const held = new Set(old.items.map((v) => v.id));
+            const held = new Map(old.items.map((v) => [v.id, v]));
             const named = new Set(next.map((v) => v.id));
             return {
               ...old,
               items: [
-                ...next.filter((v) => held.has(v.id)),
+                ...next.flatMap((v) => held.get(v.id) ?? []),
                 ...old.items.filter((v) => !named.has(v.id)),
               ],
             };
           });
           // Refresh the sidebar (cover may change) and the detail (so the now-dirty state,
-          // and the Reset/Unsynced indicators, show without an F5). The membership guard
-          // keeps the refetch from wiping the undo history on a pure reorder.
+          // and the Reset/Unsynced indicators, show without an F5). A read that only confirms
+          // this order keeps the undo history.
           refreshAfterEdit([]);
         })
         .catch((e) => {
@@ -366,6 +373,7 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
           restoreFromCache(listId);
           refreshAfterEdit([]);
         });
+      reordersOut.current.set(listId, sent);
     },
   });
   const items = order.value;
@@ -376,9 +384,9 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
   const [viewSort, setViewSort] = useState<SortState>(opened.sort);
   const [filters, setFilters] = useState<FilterMap>(opened.filters);
   const [groupBy, setGroupBy] = useState(opened.groupBy);
-  // Tracks the membership (id set) currently loaded into `order`, so a refetch that only
-  // re-confirms our own reorder doesn't wipe the undo history — we reset history only when
-  // the actual set of items changes (different playlist, or an add/remove).
+  // Tracks the membership (id set) currently loaded into `order`: a different playlist, or an add or
+  // a remove, resets the undo history. So does another order (see the effect below); a refetch that
+  // only re-confirms our own reorder does not.
   const lastSetRef = useRef<string>("");
   // The selection as of NOW, for code that runs after an await or on behalf of the open player.
   const selectedRef = useLatest(selectedId);
@@ -393,7 +401,6 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
     if (!cur) return;
     lastSetRef.current = `${listId}:${idsKey(cur.items)}`;
     order.reset(cur.items);
-    orderInDoubt.current = true;
   }
   // What the player was LAUNCHED with, snapshotted when it opens: the video, the queue and the index
   // inside it. `shown` is derived (sort / filter / view), and the player freezes its queue and owns
@@ -462,7 +469,7 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
 
   // Destructured so the effect below can name what it calls: both are stable useCallbacks, while
   // the object around them is rebuilt every render (lib/useUndoable).
-  const { reset: resetOrder, rebase: rebaseOrder } = order;
+  const { reset: resetOrder, rebase: rebaseOrder, peek: orderNow } = order;
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!detail) return;
     // A write out on the list these rows are from: this may be a read from before it landed, and the
@@ -473,13 +480,19 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
     // Scoped to the playlist: two lists holding the SAME videos would otherwise look identical to
     // the guard, so the second would render in the first's order and inherit its undo stack.
     const key = `${selectedId}:${idsKey(detail.items)}`;
-    if (!held && key !== lastSetRef.current) {
+    // The same rows in another order: a revert to YouTube, a sync, another device. Our own writes are
+    // on screen before they are in the cache, so this only counts with none out on ANY list: a read
+    // can answer from before one, and the refresh that calls such a read off waits for them all
+    // (`refreshAfterEdit`, which then settles what this skipped). The history goes with it: it holds
+    // orders built on the one just replaced, and the next step back would write them over it.
+    const reordered = !writesOut.current.size && orderOf(detail.items) !== orderOf(orderNow());
+    if (!held && (key !== lastSetRef.current || reordered)) {
       lastSetRef.current = key;
       resetOrder(detail.items);
     } else {
-      // Same membership, fresher ROWS — a watch position the player just stored, a status. The
-      // guard above looks at the id set only, so without this the list kept showing, and handing the
-      // player, each row as it was when the list first loaded: watch a video to 830 s, close it,
+      // Same rows in the same order, fresher FIELDS — a watch position the player just stored, a
+      // status. Without this the list kept showing, and handing the player, each row as it was when
+      // the list first loaded: watch a video to 830 s, close it,
       // reopen it, and it resumed at the old spot and the next checkpoint wrote that over the 830.
       // `rebase` takes the fresh rows into every snapshot and keeps the order and its undo history.
       const fresh = new Map(detail.items.map((v) => [v.id, v]));
@@ -487,7 +500,7 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
     }
     // `reset` and `rebase` are stable useCallbacks (lib/useUndoable), so naming them costs nothing;
     // `selectedId` moves only together with `detail` anyway, since detail IS the selected playlist's.
-  }, [detail, selectedId, resetOrder, rebaseOrder]);
+  }, [detail, selectedId, resetOrder, rebaseOrder, orderNow]);
 
   // Reset the view when switching playlists (the stored order itself is per-playlist) — during the
   // render that switches, so the incoming playlist is never drawn once through the previous one's
@@ -789,13 +802,15 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
     linkedOutOfReach && selectedId === railMovedTo ? linkedOver : selectedId,
   );
 
-  // The player has handed the focus back: to a row gone by now it could not, and the next Tab would
-  // start over at the top of the page. The row now in that place takes it, else the header's box, else
-  // (no rows, no table) the list's "…". A focus the reader has put elsewhere stays.
+  // The player has handed the focus back: to a row gone by now it could not, nor to a Play all disabled
+  // by the last row going, and the next Tab would start over at the top of the page. The row now in
+  // that place takes it, else the header's box, else (no rows, no table) the list's "…". A focus the
+  // reader has put elsewhere stays.
   const focusAfterPlayer = useEffectEvent(() => {
     const from = openedFrom.current;
     openedFrom.current = null;
-    if (!from || from.el?.isConnected || document.activeElement !== document.body) return;
+    const heldItsPlace = from?.el?.isConnected && !from.el.matches(":disabled");
+    if (!from || heldItsPlace || document.activeElement !== document.body) return;
     const rows = shownRef.current.length;
     if (rows && tableRef.current) focusNavItem(tableRef.current, Math.min(from.index, rows - 1));
     else (selectAllRef.current ?? renameTarget.current)?.focus();
@@ -863,8 +878,20 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
   }
   function writeDone(listId: number) {
     const out = writesOut.current.get(listId);
-    if (out && out.count > 1) out.count--;
-    else writesOut.current.delete(listId);
+    if (out && out.count > 1) {
+      out.count--;
+      return;
+    }
+    writesOut.current.delete(listId);
+    for (const go of landingWaits.current.get(listId) ?? []) go();
+    landingWaits.current.delete(listId);
+  }
+  /** When no write is out on the list any more: until then the server's list is about to change. */
+  function writesLanded(listId: number) {
+    if (!writesOut.current.has(listId)) return Promise.resolve();
+    return new Promise<void>((go) => {
+      landingWaits.current.set(listId, [...(landingWaits.current.get(listId) ?? []), go]);
+    });
   }
   // The write went through: a read from before it may have brought its rows back into the cache since,
   // and the next thing to rewrite that entry would hand them to the membership guard.
@@ -901,15 +928,13 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
     void read.then(settleOrder);
   }
   // The refresh is in. A read matching the cache exactly runs no effect, so what the cache got while a
-  // write was out is taken here, and so is the order after a rollback. A write started since has its
-  // own refresh to wait for.
+  // write was out is taken here, and so is the order after a rollback, which went by what the cache held
+  // and an accepted reorder may have moved on from. A write started since has its own refresh to wait for.
   function settleOrder() {
     const listId = selectedRef.current;
     if (listId == null || writesOut.current.size) return;
     const cur = qc.getQueryData<PlaylistDetail>(qk.playlist(listId));
-    const changed = cur && `${listId}:${idsKey(cur.items)}` !== lastSetRef.current;
-    if (orderInDoubt.current || changed) restoreFromCache(listId);
-    orderInDoubt.current = false;
+    if (cur && orderOf(cur.items) !== orderOf(order.peek())) restoreFromCache(listId);
   }
   const titleOf = (rows: Video[], id: string | undefined) =>
     raw(rows.find((v) => v.id === id)?.title ?? "");
@@ -917,16 +942,20 @@ function PlaylistDetail() {
   const tickOf = (v: Video) => (selection.isSelected(v.id) ? [v.id] : []);
   // Where rows go back when their Undo comes: against the list as it is NOW, fetched fresh, and after
   // their neighbours in the STORED order they stood in, so neither a view sort on screen nor a change
-  // in between shifts them (`reinsertAt`). Past the cache: a removal starting meanwhile calls off the
-  // cache's read, which then answers with what the cache holds, not with what is fresh.
+  // in between shifts them (`reinsertAt`). After the writes still out: the place is an index, and one
+  // landing between this read and the Undo's own write would shift it. Past the cache: a removal starting
+  // meanwhile calls off the cache's read, which then answers with what the cache holds, not with what
+  // is fresh.
   const placesNow = (listId: number, storedBefore: string[], ids: string[]) =>
-    api.playlist(listId).then((now) =>
-      reinsertAt(
-        storedBefore,
-        ids,
-        now.items.map((v) => v.id),
-      ),
-    );
+    writesLanded(listId)
+      .then(() => api.playlist(listId))
+      .then((now) =>
+        reinsertAt(
+          storedBefore,
+          ids,
+          now.items.map((v) => v.id),
+        ),
+      );
   // An Undo that could not bring everything back says so: the server leaves out a video it cannot put
   // back (gone on from the target, or from the catalog), and silence would read as all of them.
   function sayWhatCameBack(asked: number, added: number) {