Changing order of songs

My Ipod shuffle will not let me move songs around in the list. I want to move a song to the beginning but it will not let me. It was letting me by clicking and dragging.

The fix posted by 0Ari0 works very well.
iTunes tries to sort the song by what ever column header that is selected.
Another way to have the songs sorted the way you want is to create a playlist.
You can sort the songs in a playlist any way you want by clicking on column headers or by dragging and dropping. Then connect up the ipod and sync the playlist to the ipod. This way the songs can be sorted ahead of time before connecting the ipod.

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