Change order of songs on itunes

How do I change the order of the songs in itunes? I have albums out of chronological order and want to move them so that when I play all the songs from a band on my IPOD it plays them from the first to last. Thanks for any help.

In addition to what macmenno said, if you want to sort your albums in chronological order, then you need to make sure there is a date in the date field. If there is not, or not for all tracks for an album, select all the tracks and press Commend-I to bring up the Get Info box. Fill in the date and close the box. The change will be applied to all tracks. If you have your Library sorted on Album, you can easily select all the tracks by clicking on the top track and shift-clicking on the bottom one.
The second thing to consider concerning chronological order is which date to use and how consistent do you want to be in dates? The original vinyl release date? A reissue date? The first issue date of the cd? For albums that have only been issued on cd, this should not be a problem, but there have been plenty of discussions here concerning reissues and ports to cd.

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