Album track sorting

I just purchased an album from itunes for my 80GB - I have the whole album of 10 songs but two of the songs are with other artists. So now on my ipod I have the album minus two songs they are listed as other artists. When I play the album I want to hear the whole album, it is a pain having to select those two tracks individualy. Is there a way to move these into the album space.
Thank You Guy,s
Greym

in my experience, the default for iTunes was to list it by artist, then by album title, then by track number. Is yours not working this way?

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Sort by Artist - Album - Track Number

I could use some help pls. I have recently reinstalled and now all of a sudden iTunes is acting stupid. I want to sort by Artist -> Album -> Track Number. What is happening is it's sorting by Artist -> Album but the Track Numbers are backwards (listed 10 to 1).
Before you say it, it is NOT a tag issue!! I just spent the last two hours staring at a single album. Every instance of artist/album artist/disk x of y/year/genre/etc/etc are IDENTICAL. Every instance of everything that is not unique is absolutely identical!!
As a side note...does anyone know why Apple refuses to fix the bug in iTunes where mouse wheel scrolling has never worked?
Thanks...

Click on the Artist album header.
In the right side of the Artist album column header is a small triangle.
Click it so it points up. This will sort the albums track 1 thru track 10.
If the trianlge is pointing down, it will sort track 10 to track 1.
I click Artist with the arrow DEscending.
It's a triangle, not an arrow. The top of the triangle is smaller and the bottom is larger, just like the sort. Or vice-versa.
This used to automatically sort each Album under each Artist and within each Album the Tracks would be sorted numerically (1->10).
No, it has never worked as you suggest.
Ascending sort
Descending sort

Tracks sorted by date / album / track number

Hello,
I always display my tracks sorted by date added, because I like to see my newest records first. This way the new "album view", with the sleeve on the left of the tracks, looks good.
Except there is something really annoying, because it is sorted by date, it seems to be strictly sorted by date, and the tracks do not show in the correct order, more in the order, seond by second, they were added to the library.
Is there a way to make the tracks show by date added, but within one album sorted by song order ?
Thanks

The link should have taken you to my scripts page, where clicking on the name of the script should have given you a file to download called SortDateAdded.vbs. Assuming you saved this without changing the .vbs extension then I'm not sure why it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure Vista should support VBScript without any extra effort, but I'll have a hunt around and see what I can find out. Perhaps there is some optional component that was excluded during your Vista install.
Ah... try this link: http://colinwetherbee.com/weblog/archives/2007/04/vbscriptnotre.html
tt2
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IPhone-Music-Album- track can't sort!

On desktop in iTunes on Mac have all tracks sorted correctly and all info same: disc 1 of 4, and tracks 1-xx etc; and continuing disc 2 of 4,etc..same artist name, same album name, all same but when when this Smart Playlist appears on iPhone, all is jumbled and cannot sort in order ...it's in Music area, but is an audio book, so cannot listen if not in order. Ex: on iphone in the name of smart list when open (shuffle is NOT on in SETTINGS on iphone tho at top of playlist when open the one I want to listen to, it has word "shuffle") it shows:Track 10, track 05, track 12, track 11, track 06,etc. Any ideas?
I tried unchecking smart playlist title, re-synching, re-checking, still shows wrong track order on iphone

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Album Artist sort order

When I sort by Album Artist, it sorts, but the next level of sorting seems to be the artist then I'm not sure what it sorts by? I prefer the tree to go Album Artist>Album>Track number, is there any way to modify this?

In the iTunes the Album by Artist view ordering is:-
<Sort Album Artist OR Album Aritst OR Sort Artist OR Artist>, <Album>, <Disc No.>, <Track No.>
On the iPod, Cover Flow ordering is:-
<Sort Artist OR Artist>, <Album>, <Disc No.>, <Track No.>
Where the OR uses the first non-blank value. In iTunes you can use Sort Artist to make a number of different artist values sort as one & display as one entry in the browser list. On the iPod this will group an album as one unit for the Album & Cover Flow view, however the Artist menu may still display the individual values put in the Artist field often listed thus:-
Artist
Artist/Guest 1
Artist
Artist/Guest 2
Artist/Guest 3
Artist
etc.
I use the Sort Artist field myself, in preference to putting all guest artist info. into the track title, but it's worth noting the side effects of doing so. Hopefully at some point the iPod sorting rules will be changed to match that of iTunes.
tt2

ITunes Album Track Order

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.
Any help would be incredible, thank you.

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.

Track sort order

What does the song order (sometimes) change when I click on the Album column?
Most of the time, my songs show up sorted by track number (I have the track # column displayed).
However, for a few albums this is totally messed up. For example My copy of Hotel california shows:
9 The Last Resort 9 of 9
1 Hotel California 1 of 9
2 New Kid In Town 2 of 9
when sorted album by artist or album by year. But if I sort by Album, the order is
5 Wasted Time [reprise} 5 of 9
6 Victim of Love 6 of 9
1 Hotel California 1 of 9
I can sort them properly by track number if I selected the album in the browser then select track # for the sort. But I want all my albums to show proper track sorting when displayed in flow view.
I'm also wondering what would happn if this was a "gapless" album and the tracks were out of order
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I don't think you can do this becuase sorting by date added, actually date/time added, overrides everything else.
When you sort by date/time added, the albums group together assuming the tracks were all imported together. Unfortunately, the track order doesn't always seem to come out right although it often does.

Album track order in iTunes

Hello, I have a problem with a few downloaded albums.
I had downloaded album tracks off the net into album folders in My Music. The tracks were numbered. After importing the albums (folders) into my iTunes library, & updating my iPod with those, I see that in both the iPod & iTunes the tracks are in the wrong order. They are however, in correct order in their folders (in MY Music).
Any ideas how I can remedy this?

Try this, I found that it works for me. Right click at the top of any column in your iTunes library and choose **Track Number** from the list. Click at the top of this new column to sort it and after that click on the Album column. If you like you can then click on Artist which is how I prefer mine ordered, it will continue to hold the track order as well. Afterwards anything you import should follow this arrangement Artist>Album>Track Number within Album (you can hide the track number column when you've done if you don't want it cluttering up the view)

Itunes 11 Book author and Album artist sort problems

(I've changed the name here, to protect the innocent and avoid comments about my taste. I shall call him 'Fred Anydude' )
I have an ebook by 'Fred Anydude'. He appears in book view under the [Authors section] in the right place i.e. with those Authors whose last name begins with 'A', (because the sort artist field has been set up as 'Anydude, Fred'.)
Then I acquire a music album, also by Fred Anydude (Hey, what can I say, he's talented). The problem is in the music view in the Artist section I expect Fred Anydude, to appear with the other artists beginning with F (as is the convention for music artist sort order), but he doesnt. He's appears with the A's again. The sort artist is blank in the case of the music album and its songs. So I set up the sort artist for the album and its tracks as Fred Anydude. I switch views, to give the opportunity for a refresh, I even restart itunes - Fred Anydude is still being sorted according to his book view sort artist despite what I've set up for his music: Still appearing with the A's
But to confuse matters, under Album view with the Album view sort order set to 'by Artist', the album does appear along with other artists beginning with F.
To make matters worse if I do a search for Fred Anydude, I only get shown the book in the results. The music doesn't even appear.
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I suppose a better way to differentiate between album artist and artist is to say Track Artist.

5310 Album Track Order

I've got a 5310 with the Comes With Music package. I've downloaded some albums, but they seem to be listed and playing in a random order (Shuffle is off), not the order of the album. Is there a way to fix this?

The problem appears to be with the order you put the songs onto the phone in. The only solution I've found is to remove all the songs from the album on the phone, then add them back on in the order that they are in the album.
This only appears to be a problem with WMAs (The file format used by the songs downloaded from Nokia Music Store).
I have tried the same thing with MP3s, adding them on to the phone out of order from the album, and they are played in the correct order.
This therefore leads me to conclude that the 5310 cannot read all the tags correctly from the WMA format files, which would allow it to sort the album tracks by the track number. Some other information missing when looking at a WMA file on the phone is Year and Genre information which can be viewed in MP3s on the phone. This means that the Genres list on the phone doesn't list anything for the WMAs. I am a little disappointed about the poor support for WMAs, especially when the tracks downloaded from the Nokia Music Store are in WMA format, surely the phone should properly suppor this format, especially when the 5310 is supplied with the Comes With Music package.
I have to say Nokia support have been excellent in the speed and response of their communications over e-mail. I have been discussing it with them for the past couple of weeks and they have forwarded my summary above to the relevant department. Hopefully something will be fixed in future. Although creating playlists is a solution (And something that was recommended by Nokia) in reality this would take an awful long time with 50+ albums on my phone and the speed of navigation through the songs, so the best way is to remove the songs and add them on again. Hope this helps.

Album track order

How does one ensure that album tracks appear in their true original order and apply this throughout your whole library?

Each track has a track number field which can be filled in. Right click any track, and select 'Get Info' - one of the pages there will have a 'Track X of Y' field. If these are filled in, when you sort your library by Album, tracks will be listed by album, then by track number in their album.

Album Tracks

iTunes has changed the track order of two new albums. I've gone into get info and verified that the track numbers are correct (1 of 10, 2 of 10, etc), but in the library and on my ipod they are in a different order. How do I change the order of album tracks in my library?

mureid,
The track tags in the info are simply for reference relating to the original album. iTunes isn't bound by that, and can arrange the tracks however you wish. If you have a playlist in which the tracks of an album are out of order, go to that playlist, click the box that's to the left of "Name" (in the sorting row, which usually contains "Name", "Album", "Artist", etc.) After clicking once in the black sort box, you'll be able to drag tracks around until they're in whatever order you'd like them to be in.
Give it a try and let me know if it doesn't address what you were asking about.

Album Art Sorting incorrectly in Compilations/Albums iphone Music App listing/tab

Album Art Sorting incorrectly in Compilations/Albums iphone Music App listing/tab
Sounds like a mouthful, but basically im saying that I have a bunch of compilations that when displayed in itunes on my pc,
show the album art which is set for the first track. This is to be expected.
But when i upload the compilations to my iPhone 5, and i open up the Music app and select the compilations tab...
The same compilations show another album art that is actually associated with another track in the compilation.
When i looked for a pattern, i found that it would basically take the album art from the track in the compilation based on the artists name in reverse alphabetical order.
So if i had album art associated with every track in the compilation, normally it would show in the listing the album art of the first track... but now it was actually the album art of the artist name starting closest to the letter z.
I've tested this many times. very annoying. but to explain again...
If i have a compilation containing artists from Coldplay to Ziggy Marley... no matter where in the listing Ziggy Marley is listed first to last... it will display the Album art associated to Ziggy Marley in the List view for the Compilations or Albums tab in the Music app on an iPhone 5.
Normally you would expect it to show the album art associated with the first track in the listing as it does in Itunes so as to keep uniformity between what you upload in iTunes and what you see in the Music app on the iPhone.
THIS IS A BUG APPLE!!!... test it for yourselves... someone broke your db sorting in the new itunes. ITunes 11, with iPhone 5
Please fix!
Thank you kindly...

another note... when i select the album from the list (on the iphone, in the music app) and it slides over to show all tracks in the compilation...
it then shows the proper album art as it should.
Also, when i check cover flow it then shows another incorrect cover?

ITunes splits songs from the same album into several albums, all sort fields appear to match. Any suggestions on how to put them in one album?

iTunes sometimes splits songs from the same album into several albums, all sort fields appear to match. Any suggestions on how to return them to the proper album?

Generally all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
N.B. Giving different things the same sort value (or indeed vice versa) tends to lead to trouble.
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Can 'track list' button show your playlist rather than album track list?

Hi all
My 3GS iPhone has my music on it in the form of whole albums which live in individual playlists on my Mac, but I also have playlist 'mixes' which I've created from various songs from multiple albums.
When selecting to play a 'mixed' playlist on my iPhone I tap on it, tap the first song to start the music playing, but then if I tap the top right 'track list' button, instead of showing all the tracks in my created playlist it just shows the entire album tracks from where this particular song has come from. Visually I prefer the 'track list' screen but it seems I can't use it if I'm playing a 'mixed' playlist. Is there any way around this?
Also, this is the same if I have a double CD album: once I hit the 'track list' button it shows just CD 1 (or 2 if I'm further down the play list of course), rather than all the tracks even though on they all live in one single playlist on my iTunes. I've even taken the starts of the track names off (some of them start with '1_01 Song Title' for example) when importing them into iTunes to see if that helps but it doesn't: the iPhone KNOWS how that track was originally supplied!
Any help or clarification on this would be very helpful!
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sadly, that kind of customization is only easily doable on a computer. the iPhone and it's core apps can not be changed by users. you can request the feature be put in, but unless there are a LOT of requests, you shouldn't get your hopes up as there are a lot of these kinds of requests, and by implementing it, how many other users would be angry and demand it be changed back? http://www.apple.com/feedback/
if you are playing a song that you selected in a playlist, you should be able to hit the 'back' button in the top left to go back to the playlist and view your songs in the playlist.
in regards to the 'cd 1 of 2' thing, you will need to change your song info to get this to show in the format you want. to see the song info, select a song and go to 'file -> get info'. that will show you all of the ID3 tag information, which you can edit to do whatever you want.

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