Cannot change track order in playlist

Created playlist. Went to change order of tracks in list. Cannot move track to change location within the playlist or figure any othe way to accomplish this.

View > View Options. When the View Options box comes up, set "Sort by" to "Manual Order."
Once this is done, you will be able to move songs up or down by drag-n-drop.

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Hello. I will probably sound really silly asking this but it has been a problem for me since i started using iTunes (which was ages ago - ha!). I'm trying to burn a CD from a playlist but would like to change the order of the songs. Is this possible and how?? I remember reading a reply to a query similar to this and it was simply to click the numbered, blank title column and then click and drag. I tried this but it still doesnt work. Im sure its just me missing out on something really obvious but please help because as i said its been an issue for a while. Thanks guys

Normally u should just be able to drag n drop to the place that you want it to be? take the song u want n click n hold, then drag 2 where u want it n there should be a little black arrow/line thingy showing where its going to be put?

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Ok .. I just created a new playlist in order to burn to a cd and I cannot change the song order by dragging songs. A blue border appears around the outside of my playlist when I left click and hold on a song I would like to move and simply won't move. All previous existing playlists, created before the 11 'upgrade', I can still move songs without any issue as before.
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I Can’t take credit for this, someone (riffraff)posted it long ago, but I’ve had to use it each time iTunes updates.
1. This will erase your play lists and music list. May want to have them saved somewhere to import from later
2. Close iTunes
3. I went to music folder then to iTunes and under this directory
4. I deleted iTunes Library files, library, extras, and genius
(Actually I just moved them to a new folder on the desktop if things go wrong)
5. started iTunes.
6. Got shaken when no songs in the music list
7. select add folder to library
8. select your music folder-probably iTunes Music folder
9. let run
10. I plugged in my shuffle, copied 5 podcasts to a playlist. Arrange in the order you want. Sync to the iPod. Detach and check. It worked for me.

HT1386 Change of order in playlists. Problems after sync

I have my ipod classic for many years, but recently encountered problems after sync. Itunes changes the order of tracks in my playlists. I want them be ordered by album, but itunes ordered it by "ticked". I tried to change it before sync. First this seem to be work, but now the order is again wrong. I find this really annoying, because "ticked" seemed to mean to be similar to "by name" of tracks. This does not make any sense for my music.
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Can't change song order in playlists

Several weeks ago iTunes stopped letting me change the order of songs in playlists. When I try to drag and drop them to change up the order the track just snaps back into place.
I've gone over my settings several times trying to see if there's anything that got changed that might be causing this but nothing seems out of the ordinary.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Make sure neither Shuffle or Repeat are switched on in the playlist, that can prevent you reordering tracks. You'll find the commands for these in the Controls menu or the two central buttons below the Source list. Also of course make sure you click on the number column (extreme left) of your play list to highlight it.

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I recently purchased 6 songs from the Bowie "Heroes" album from the iTunes Store. But looking at them in my iTunes Library, the title track had the wrong album information. It said it was from somebody's iMix, and had that person's photo in the artwork. It also had the wrong track number. (For the record, I never accessed this person's iMix, and was very careful about the order that I downloaded the songs.) I went to Get Info and changed everything about the song to the right information. But even though the album and track number is now listed correctly, the song still isn't in the right vertical order in my Library, and consequently, won't play in the right order of the original album. I know I can always make a playlist and change the order there, but I want it to display correctly in the main Library. After all, I didn't create this problem. Any suggestions?
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If you are making changes in the to the songs directly in the folders then iTunes may no longer recognise them (in fact in all probability no longer knows what the file is anymore). If you want to change details (titles, albums, etc.) you should do that within iTunes itself by right clicking on a song and choosing Get Info. Also moving files directly in a folder will cause iTunes to lose track of the location, I suspect the root of your problems is the changes you've made.

ITunes changes track order when burning discs

When burning a playlist to disc iTunes changes the track order. I want the disc to have the same track order as my playlist. How do I do that?

Jim VanLeeuwen wrote:
How your CD appears in iTunes depends on the column selections. In list view in iTunes, select the column to the left of the track names to see the CD track order. To see the actual order of the tracks on the CD, open the CD in Finder by double-clicking the CD on the desktop. The tracks will be preceded by a number corresponding to their order on the CD and that is the order they should play in your CD player. If you use the Finder's list view, your CD should reflect the order in the playlist you burned it from.
Play the CD in your CD player? Does the order match the original playlist?
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What did you do when you " i recently added iCLOUD service "?
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Cannot change song order in Manual Sync mode

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A few years ago my parents bought me a laptop, I have my iPod on Manual Sync mode so none of my music from my old computer is lost.
However, I've noticed that if you are in Manual Sync mode, you cannot control the order songs are listed in with iTunes. When I used to sync it automatically, if I said I wanted songs in a playlist on my iPod sorted by "name" or "artist" in iTunes, it would update accordingly on the iPod, but now it does not! This is really annoying if I have just dumped songs in no particular order, I have to pay careful attention while scrolling.
Is there some kind of solution to this problem, or can I report it to Apple somehow so they can release an update fixing this? It's driving me nuts!
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I Can’t take credit for this, someone (riffraff)posted it long ago, but I’ve had to use it each time iTunes updates.
1. This will erase your play lists and music list. May want to have them saved somewhere to import from later
2. Close iTunes
3. I went to music folder then to iTunes and under this directory
4. I deleted iTunes Library files, library, extras, and genius
(Actually I just moved them to a new folder on the desktop if things go wrong)
5. started iTunes.
6. Got shaken when no songs in the music list
7. select add folder to library
8. select your music folder-probably iTunes Music folder
9. let run
10. I plugged in my shuffle, copied 5 podcasts to a playlist. Arrange in the order you want. Sync to the iPod. Detach and check. It worked for me.

Can't change track order for a CD I'm trying to burn - Help! :-/

I'm trying to put together a CD for my girlfriend (yes I know... sappy) but can't seem to change the order. I'm feeling a bit like an idiot because I was able to change them just hours ago but not anymore. I also noticed I can't drag items from other playlists into this one. It's NOT a SmartPlaylist and no I don't have any of the sort headings selected besides the first one (little arrow thingy).
I've read everything I could find in the forums and none of it's helped.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Weston Waterson wrote:
I'm positive that Shuffle is NOT on. This really seems like a glitch in the program to me.
Indeed it is. That is what I meant by "bug."
I've compared my itunes setup to another computer side by side and can't see why it won't work. I've tried restarting the program, the computer, etc but it still won't allow me to drag songs to playlists or reorder them within the playlist.
Did you try the "Add To Playlist" approach that was suggested? That should help you get around the first problem. As a workaround for the second, start a new playlist and add the songs one at a time in the order you want.
Hope this helps.

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View > View Options. When the View Options box comes up, set "Sort by" to "Manual Order."
Once this is done, you will be able to move songs up or down by drag-n-drop.

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It looks like you are not the only one. How frustrating.
Here's two posts with the same problem, but no fix.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=671794&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3351085&#3351085
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