Album song order not kept!

Hello
I imported lots of songs into my itunes library from various sources (itunes store, CD's, and audio files converted from my vinyl records) This way, songs from a specific artist, and sometimes from a specific album, could come from different sources.
Now, I try to arrange all the songs from a specific album to appear in the appropriate order, but I just can't find a way of doing this! The songs just appear in the way itunes sorts them, without any relation to the original order of the album. Even more, in the ipod, the order changes once again with no appearant reason!
I tried changing the names on the files in itunes to include serial numbers (01, 02 and so on, at the names of the songs). but then again, for some reason, no order is kept.
How can I sort the songs in the album according to the proper order? I don't want to use a special playlist for each album.
Thank you in advance for your replies
Zak.
Windows XP

I'm having the same problem. I don't want to add any more songs into itunes because it's getting too messed up. I want the songs in the order that they appear on the cd. If you find a solution please let me know.
Thanks
Dell 5100 Windows XP
Dell 5100 Windows XP

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Album's song order not kept

Hello
I imported lots of songs into my itunes library from various sources (itunes store, CD's etc.) This way, songs from a specific artist, and sometimes from a specific album, could come from different sources.
Now, I try to arrange all the songs from a specific album to appear in the appropriate order, but I just can't find a way of doing this! The songs just appear in the way itunes sorts them, without any relation to the original order of the album. Even more, in the ipod, the order changes once again with no appearant reason!
How can I sort the songs in the album according to the proper order? I don't want to use a special playlist for each album.
Thank you in advance for your replies
Zak.

Not sure, but does the ipod not sort by track number first? If you edit the properties of the mp3 file, and put in track numbers, the songs should be displayed in that order, I think.

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Hello everyone,
I'm a nubie to mastering Itunes, but I was wondering if anyone can help me keep my albums, song orders, organized in their original track order, instead of alphabetically.
Most of my mp3's are in individual album files inside the artist file, with a number order beginning each track name 01_tracka, 02_trackb, etc. etc.
Anyway, when I add all my songs to itunes and use my library/browser to search for albums, they come up alphabetically totally messing up my original song orders.
What am I doing wrong?
thanks,
Tucky
P.S. I don't let itunes organize my music folder, because I want to keep my original file folder structure.

Gene,
iTunes does not use the file names to display or sort the tracks. It uses the tags associated with each track. You can edit a track's tags by highlighting the track, pressing Command-I, and then clicking on the Info tab.
To put an album in track order, you would need to enter the track number in that field of the get Info box. You would at least need to actual track number, you could add the total number of tracks as well.
You sort iTunes by clicking on one of the headers of the spreadsheet-like display. So, if you select a single album to look at, you could sort it in track order by clicking the header of the "Track #" column. If you are displaying all the albums by a particular artist, if you have the track tag filled in, then you can click on the "Album" header to sort by the album name and each album will be sorted in track order.
View Options (Command-J) only determines what columns are displayed in the main "spreadsheet" like display of iTunes. To actually sort the tunes, you need to click on the header of the column you want to sort by.

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Hello
I imported lots of songs into my itunes library from various sources (itunes store, CD's, and audio files converted from my vinyl records) This way, songs from a specific artist, and sometimes from a specific album, could come from different sources.
Now, I hope to arrange all the songs from a specific album to appear in the appropriate order, but I just can't find a way of doing this! The songs just appear in the way iTunes sorts them, without any relation to the original order of the album. Even more, in the iPod itself, the order changes once again with no appearant reason! (Interestingly enough, when I import all the songs of a specific album from one source, the order is kept)
I tried changing the names on the files in itunes to include serial numbers (01, 02 and so on, at the names of the songs). but then again, for some reason, no order is kept.
How can I sort the songs in the album according to the proper order? I don't want to use a special playlist for each album.
Thank you in advance for your replies
Zak.
Windows XP
Windows XP

iTunes sorts things in thew following way (based on having the correct ID3 tag info)
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if you sort things by Album
iTunes does NOT take anything from the file name unless no ID3 tag info is present in the file, then you will see the file name appear as the track name and all other fields blank. ID3 tags are the way most meta-data is handled noawadays.
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I am sure that this problem has been posted but for some reason I cannot find the search box to search through the posts. I only have a search box that searches the entire support page.
I want to be able to see my songs alphabetically when I am viewing my ipod by artist. It seems as though it is set up according to the album order. When I look at a particular artist I have a long list of songs and it is hard to find a song because who remembers the songs in the order of how they are arranged on the album. Is there a way to change this besides going into the info and manually changing it? that would be very time consuming....
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Kevin
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Windows Itunes (version 7.01): Sync to iPod Enabled (manually manage songs & videos box is: UNchecked)
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When I recently added a new album (of ten songs) into iTunes, I forgot to enter their correct corresponding track number. I subsequently (in iTunes) entered the album artist's name (same for all songs) and corresponding correct track numbers (1 of 10, 2 of 10, etc), with the album's song order now appearing & playing (in iTunes) correctly now.
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Hi Snubnog,
Many thanks to your reply and informative link, I now use this succesful work around solution: 1) removing the recently tag edited songs from my iTunes library and then 2): re-importing them back into the iTunes Libary. Following this, and syncing my iPod up to the iTunes library again, my album songs now appear in correct play order.
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