Itunes assigns track numbers automatically

iTunes 11 - When I play a track, sometimes iTunes will automatically assign a track number to it, but not always. So what happens is it winds up putting an entire albumn out of order. In other ones, it will assign track #1 to track 1, then track 4 to track 4 and so on. So the ones it doesn't assign a track number wind up displaying on that particular album before the ones that were given a track number. It's doing this pretty randomly and causing a lot of grief.
I realize I can right click on the tracks without an assinged track number and assign the right number, but that's a pain for thousands of songs. I tried removing the Track# column, but that doesn't help. I still prefer to listen to listen to albums in their entirety and like to put them on my iPod, etc. that way.
Can't itunes just sort by artist name, then album, then the correct order of the album? This never happened on a previous version. Why did they do this?

The track numbers are all fine, the album and artist are exactly the same for all of them.
If you dont understand my problem, just check this image:
http://cncvision.org/itunesproblem.PNG
the tracks arent going in the right order. IDK why it wont work. I bought the album on itunes, then bought the song "not now" cause itunes didnt include it on the album, and bought "stockholm syndrome" cause itunes didnt include it on the album. Both songs are on the normal cd. I tried to put those two songs onto the album in the order they would be if I bought the cd and ripped it, but itunes wont place them in that order.

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tt2

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I would like to make a "custom album" for an artist, a greatest hits designed by me, if you will. The songs are all by a single artist, but come from various sources. Some were purchased from iTunes Music Store, some were imported directly from CDs, some were MP3 files from my old PC, etc. (you get the idea).
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My suggestion would be to ask in the iWork for iOS forum. Many more iOS users there.
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ITunes keep deleting my track numbers

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Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. Note that in iTunes 11 an "empty" library may show your past purchases with links to stream or download them.
In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
Alternatively, depending on exactly when and why the library went missing, there may be a more recent .tmp file in the main iTunes folder that can be renamed as iTunes Library.itl to restore the library to a recent state.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
When you get it all working make a backup!
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tt2

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ITunes dropping the 'of' part of track numbers

I have been experiencing this issue with iTunes since day dot.
I always format my track numbers so they are displayed as track number 'XX of XX' when adding albums to help keep track of the number of tracks contained within each album.
However occasionally, iTunes will completely drop the 'of XX' part of the track number causing me to have to fill it in again. What causes this and how do I avoid it?

Assuming you are in a region where you are allowed to redownload your past music purchases, delete the corrupt tracks from your iTunes library, close and then reopen iTunes, go to the iTunes Store home page, click the Purchased link from the Quick Links section in the right-hand column, then select Music and Not on this computer. You should find download links for your tracks there.
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tt2

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Hi,
I had recently organized all my music with iTunes, and using info tab via Get Info i had added track numbers basically Cold Play - Clocks track number 5 of 11
Now when i play certain songs, the total number of tracks is wiped away (for example the Cold Play i used above, just displays Track 5 and the 11 is wiped away)
This is VERY upsetting since i went through a VERY long process organizing all my songs! I would appreciate any help, thanks!
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Look at the file in Windows Explorer.
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HT203128 iTunes 12.1.050 - Rollback: Updated from 12.01, now I cant't change track numbers and add additional data fields. How can I roll back to the previous version? @Apple, I want a $100 gift card for the inconvenience.

iTunes 12.1.050 - Rollback: Updated from 12.01, now I cant't change track numbers and add additional data fields. How can I roll back to the previous version? @Apple, I want a $100 gift card for the inconvenience.
- it's all said in the title. I can't understand why the developers turn things bad ... risking loosing Apples valuable customers.
More examples needed? (check out the communities and the reviews)
- OSX: Maverick to Yosemite = not recommended (check it out > http://roaringapps.com/apps)
- iPad: older versions as iPad2 should not upgrade to iOS7/8 (it's not supporting its hardware accordingly, it's designed for the latest hardware)
- iTunes (it's possible to rollback to 10.7 - 11.4, but you need to breech OSX system security framework)
- Pages (was a real alternative for many of us, each update reduced features and created incompatibility to older work files)
The list could easily extend to ...

You can offer Apple feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
as for "
"@Apple, I want a $100 gift card for the inconvenience"
dream on.

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Ever since the new update with iTunes 12, all of my song titles have a track number before them.
Is there any easy way to remove this without having to go through my entire library?
Any help would be appreciated.
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turingtest2 wrote:
OK, that was the wrong approach. What should have worked would have been the process described in Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash. No doubt your songs not only start with two leading digits, but have also lost the information regarding artist, album and their actual track numbers.
Make a strong cup of coffee/tea/your favourite beverage and review this thread: Any software that can rebuild iTunes songs lost to Unknown Artist/ Unknown Album. It should be possible to restore a pre-upgrade version of your library, the reconnect it to the files (assuming they have been moved). Please feel free to ask questions.
tt2
I couldn't get that script program to open. I'll just have to manually fix this mess.
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Contact iTunes Customer Service and request that they clear it out.

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I basically spend 8 hr a day listening to iTunes and I have a really frustrating issue that I can't imagine should be as difficult to get around - but I can't seem to figure it out.
I buy quite a bit of music either through emusic, itunes or cd's. Since I had probably 1/2 dozen albums a week, I ideally want to open itunes and just start listening to the last album I imported (in order) followed by the 2nd most recent album, etc -- and ideally listen for my entire workday. The problem is multifaceted:
1. Emusic automatically imports music I download. It processes them in reverse order, which is good since it makes song #1 the most recent "date added" which allows me to sort by "date added" and listen in order. Unfortunately, since it processes multiple songs at a time, shorter songs beat the song before it -- and it makes a mess of the track order. They get numbered correctly, but they're "date added" are incorrect -- which messes up my listening order.
2. When I import a CD, it starts at track 1 -- making it impossible to use the "dated added"field as a sort.
3. I believe Itunes acts like a cd on importing, so again the order is bungled.
I have about 6,000 songs so I don't think it's feasible to change each CD one by one, but I can't imagine there isn't some way to just listen to my newest album, in order, then my next newest, etc.
Does anyone know if there's a way to do this? I can't imagine I'm the only person who listens to music this way. Right now, I wind up filtering to the album, sorting by track, and listening to CD's one by one. I can get through like 20 albums in a day, so this it makes it really tought to get into a flow at work.
This has bothered me for well over a year, and I've searched many discussion groups and haven't come across any similar threads -- so I decided to just ask flat out.
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hmmm... I didn't realize that was an option, but that definitely helps. I guess part two can be to request emusic to NOT IMPORT automatically, and I can just load the tracks in reverse order.
Of course that helps moving forward, but I guess I'm stuck with out of order imports on the existing library (not the end of the world).
I really wish Itunes would allow a secondary sort to allow us to sort albums and just leave the track numbers alone -- I'd say 99% of the time, people want the album tracks in order, so it's silly to have most of the sort options mess with that order.

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I have nearly 8,000 tracks on my iPod, many of which are for audiobooks stored as music files. In general, the tracks from these audiobooks have useful tag data, with the exception of the track number field that is stored as part of the tag data. I am trying to find a way that will enable me to renumber many tracks at once without having to do it one file at a time.
When I rip audiobook wav files to mp3 the track number data field is automatically inserted according to which track it was on the source CD. However, since many audiobooks have more than one CD, the end result is that I have more than one track that is number 1, number 2, and so on. For example, if an audiobook has 10 CDs each with 10 tracks I end up with 100 tracks in total, but instead of tracks numbered 1 through 100, I get 10 tracks with track number 1, ten with track number 2, and so forth.
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I could, of course, create a separate "album" for each CD in a multi-CD audiobook, but then I would have way more "albums" than I really need to have listed.
Does anyone know of a method (or an application) that I can use to renumber tracks easily and quickly? I would be ideal to find something as easy as this would be to do in an Excel spreadsheet. But to renumber them one file at a time is simply overwhelming.
Please advise.

Whereas I need to be
able to go from disc 1/track 1 to disc 1/track 2,
instead the iPod goes from disc 1/track 1 to disc
2/track 1.
Right click on any of these files and do a Get Info. Notice that there is, in fact, a Disc number field. So you can make disc numbers 1/10, 2/10 and so on.
iTunes and the iPod are both smart enough to recognize that there are disc numbers there and act correctly. So it'll start with Disc 1, play all that disc, then go to Disc 2, and so forth. It's just a matter of having correct disc number tags.
You can tag disc numbers for a whole disc at once. Simply select all the songs in a single disc (hold SHIFT or CTRL while selecting the songs), right click, Get Info, and you get the mass tag editor screen. Add the disc number info for this disc, and it'll tag that info to all those songs. Repeat for each disc.

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