Can't move songs within my playlists

Tried to move songs within my playlists, but menu button is not working. I just bought the phone 2 weeks ago, never dropped it and the botton works fine in other apps. I took out the battery, but it still doesnt work.

I experienced the same problem with the menu button not working when trying to remove a song from a playlist. I did come up with a work around though. Remove the song from your phone, then proceed to delete the song from the playlist. Note: the menu button will work when trying to remove songs from a playlist which have been deleted from your phone. Then, if you still want that song on your phone, but not in the playlist, add the song back onto your phone.

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I am running 7.6.1.9 itunes and can no longer move songs within my play lists.
I used to be able to click and drag them around to change their order within the playlist.
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I've been using iTunes ever since it came out and I use it all the time. Suddenly today I can't move songs around in my playlists. I tried making a new playlist and moving songs from the library into it and even that doesn't work (I can't actually move a song from my music library into any playlist any more)
I've checked through all the other threads where people have had this problem and done everything suggested but nothing is working.
I do have the playlist number arrow highlighted
I do have manual ordering turned on in the view options
I've logged out and restarted several times
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Ahhh!!! I closed down for a few hours and now it's working fine!

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Brandcast, I'd suggest you post in a new topic. Although your question is the same, apparently the answer isn't. Any topic that was originally started over 2 months ago may relate to a different version of iTunes (neither you nor the original poster say which version you use) and who knows what may happen between versions.
Message was edited by: Limnos - user has started a new topic

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I create a playlist with songs from my library and then try to drag the songs within the playlist to make a different order and they wont change position from how they were originally dragged in. is there a setting i need to check or uncheck to fix this so i can arrange my songs the way i want them within the created playlist?

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Assuming that we're talking about a Playlist (as opposed to a Smart Playlist), just make sure it's sorted by the left-most column in the Playlist display.
You can sort the playlist in different ways by clicking on the various column headings at the top of the display, but only when you've selected the column with the numbers on the left-hand side will you be able to rearrange the songs.
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