diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index eaa766b8..02e5efa2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ncmpcpp-0.8.1 (????-??-??)
 * Setting 'colors_enabled' to 'no' no longer results in a crash.
 * Using '--quiet' command line argument no longer results in a crash.
 * If songs in media library have no track numbers, sort them by name.
+* Fixed a situation in which songs added to playlist from media library or playlist editor screens would not be immediately marked as such.
 
 ncmpcpp-0.8 (2017-05-21)
 * Configuration variable 'execute_on_player_state_change' was added.
diff --git a/src/status.cpp b/src/status.cpp
index 85246a17..cd1850ca 100644
--- a/src/status.cpp
+++ b/src/status.cpp
@@ -439,6 +439,17 @@ void Status::Changes::playlist(unsigned previous_version)
 
 	myPlaylist->reloadTotalLength();
 	myPlaylist->reloadRemaining();
+
+	// When we're in multi-column screens, it might happen that songs visible on
+	// the screen are added, but they will not be immediately marked as such
+	// because the window that contains them is not the active one at the moment,
+	// so we need to refresh them manually.
+	if (isVisible(myLibrary)
+	    && !myLibrary->isActiveWindow(myLibrary->Songs))
+		myLibrary->Songs.refresh();
+	if (isVisible(myPlaylistEditor)
+	    && !myPlaylistEditor->isActiveWindow(myPlaylistEditor->Content))
+		myPlaylistEditor->Content.refresh();
 }
 
 void Status::Changes::storedPlaylists()