"Copy to Play Order" not working

Hello,
I have been using my new iPod for a couple of weeks now and it is working very well as is iTunes. My issue is with trying to get certain albums/playlists to play in a certain order on my iPod.
To cut to the chase: I have my iPod set to shuffle songs, but I still want certain playlists to play in a particular order. Can this be done?
I have used the "Copy to Play Order" command in iTunes when the playlist is in the correct order. However, when listening to the playlist in the iPod, the cuts play in random order.
Any assistance you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thank you...
Dell Inspiron 8200 Windows XP Pro

What is going on here. I don't have this problem with my 3rd generation Nano (the square one with the clickwheel), but I do with the 6th gen (the square one with the touchscreen).

Similar Messages

Smart playlist "copy to play order" not working?

I have a smart list that selects classical music pieces based on two separate criteria ("choose with words "###" or "***" in the comments into the playlist), and puts them in the playlist.
But even if the play order is displayed correctly in iTunes, once it loads onto my iPods (4th Gen Touch, and iPod Photo), the play order is randomized.
This may be tolerable with rock music, but in classical music when several movements must be played in order, it poses a major problem.
I have re-ordered it using "Album by Title", verfied the play order in iTunes and then have chosen "Copy to Play Order". then I sync to my iPods, but in iPod the playlist is out of order (whatever order Smart Playlist chose.. which seems rather random).
The only way to work around so far, is to create a standard playlist with a different name, and copy the contents of the Smart Playlist, order it correctly, and then chose "copy to Play Order". But this sort of defeats the Smart Playlist...
Is there a bug? or am I not understanding how "Copy to Play Order" works?
I'm using 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.6.1.

What is going on here. I don't have this problem with my 3rd generation Nano (the square one with the clickwheel), but I do with the 6th gen (the square one with the touchscreen).

Ipod playlists in wrong order, in itunes they show correct (by rating), copy to play order doesnt work

Trying to set the ipod correctly since new updates and the song order is wrong, in itunes is correct as i intended it by rating, but on the ipod shows wrong, tried deleting playlist, full restore, copy to play order and manual upload, all to no avail. im loosing the will to live frankly.

only in the play lists in the ipod, no criteria seem to work. when i hit artist or songs it appears as it always did alphabetically, do u not see them likewise?

"Copy To Play Order" has stopped working

Anyone else have this problem appear in the past two weeks or so? I have a smart playlist which is very basic - it's the least often played 100 songs in all of iTunes. Every day after I play songs, some of them drop off the list, and lesser-played ones move onto the list. I re-shuffle it while it's sorted by the first column (number column) by using the shuffle button on the lower left of iTunes.
I right click on the playlist name, then click "copy to play order," then re-sync the iPod (4th gen nano).
When I look at the contents of my nano in iTunes, it reflects the order of the playlist in iTunes (shuffled). But then, when I eject the nano, copy to play order did not work on the actual nano. It's sorted in some strange way which groups together a bunch of songs by each artist, then throws a random song in between, then another artist, all loosely moving backwards alphabetically.
Help please! I haven't done the most recent update to iTunes but I did the one right before it. I also did the most recent firmware upgrade for my nano, but this problem showed up before the firmware upgrade.

Don't know if this will help as I didn't have time to read all the details. I was looking for an answer myself... Why do I have to click 'copy to play order' twice to save my choice of play order? When I download podcsts of talk radio in hour episodes,they always appear in iTunes in reverse order (Hour 3 first). I click on the first (number) column in the main view and they go into the right order. I click 'copy to play order' and they go back to the original order again. So I go back and re-order them to my preference, click 'copy to play order'again and this time it stays how I want it and is in the right order on my Nano.
So maybe doing the process twice will help others who think it's not working right...
Cheers
Steve

I have a 1st & 4th gen ipod shuffle. When I copy a playlist to the 1st gen it plays back correctly. The 4th gen plays back the same playlist alphabetically by artist. The copy by play order function makes no difference. Any suggestions?

I have a 1st & 4th gen Ipod shuffle. When I copy a playlist to the older shuffle it plays back in order. When I copy a playlist to the 4th gen shuffle it plays by alphabetically by artist. I used the copy by play order but with no change. Any suggestions?

This is crazy. What are those guys thinking. I would love to have my 2nd generation ipod shuffle back - it was so easy to use, so easy to operate, alas it was lost/stolen! There are 2 big disasterous (disaster to ease of use) changes in the ipod 4th generation. This particularly relates to podcasts. One is they only play in order by source/type of podcast. You cannot break out of that unless, you have someone to show you how to use the voice over which is not covered anywhere on the very thin manual or elsewhere. Secondly and just as bad but related also, you cannot line them up on your shuffle by date, preference, anything. ONLY apple will do this for you. I hate the thing and will return it today after visiting Apple 3 days in a row to try and get answers, trying to apply the answers and realizing beside the fact that some of the answers given were wrong, they were not going to lead to ease of use. Who said this was better? I was struggling with this (not knowing how to break out of one type of podcast) until i went to Apple and talked to about 4 people who knew less than i did about the shuffle. OUr family has just bought 2 new macbook pros for my son and wife. I have had my macbook for 4 years and love it. I had my ipod shuffle (2 gen) for the same time and loved it but now I don't trust Apple. Are they going to make changes just to make changes. Get some consumer advice, please not just from nerds who want more buttons but from everyday people.
A Bunch of wasted time, yfbolsen

What does "Copy to play order" do?

On the right-click context menu for a playlist (ITunes 7.6) there is an entry with the description "Copy To Play Order". I haven't been able to notice this doing anything. What is it supposed to do?
Thanks,
==mitch

Thanks!
I was blanking on the IPod connection, and looking for something just internal to ITunes, like imposing the ordering from the playlist ontothe overall Music listing somehow. (Though it wasn't doing this.)
So now I still have a feature wishlist for Apple...
* Let me select a preference to /always/ apply playlist orders to the IPod.
* More generally, give the user more control over sorting in the main Music list. The Sorting fields in the Info box are helpful, but not as helpful as allowing main and subsidiary sorting by two columns, like in a spreadsheet.
The point of the second one would be to let me restore native track order for albums. Currently I resort to making an album into a playlist and sorting it there.
Thanks again for answering the original question.
==mitch

"Copy To Play Order" - how to script / automate?

Hi,
I need to have certain Smart Playlist appear sorted in my iPod and I always have to manually right-lick on playlist and click on "Copy To Play Order" before syncing. Does anyone know of a way to automate this? AppleScript actions for iTunes do not seem to have this command.
Thank you!

Where do I start?
1--crossover track mamagement
2--true full boolean playlist control for Smart Playlists
3--separate track AND album produuction fields
4--32K comment field
5--Album label/distribution label fields
6--Searchable Lyric field for general use and as a Smart Playlist criteria field
7--Sub-genre field (to maintain consistency with the iTMS)
8--Selective En/Dis-able of "Shuffle" menu item for playlists. To prevent accidental shuffling.
That's just a partial list.

TA27500 Forget the "Copy to Play Order" solutions.

Forget the "Copy to Play Order" solutions. None of them worked for me. Just think like the computer... rename your artists with a two-digit number at the beginning of their name, in the preferrred play order. Voila! Done. And in order.

In iTunes you can sort playlists by various fields easily but when you copy the playlist to a device the tracks will be ordered according to the Play Order.
If you select the leftmost column of numbers as the sort column then iTunes should reveal the current play order. You can drag tracks up and down this list to rearrange them or, having used one of the other column headings to sort things, right-click on the playlist name and use Copy to Play Order to set the default order for this list when copied to a device.
tt2

Flash play installation not work - The exe file deelete automaticly and the process is still running

Flash play installation not work - The exe file deelete automaticly and the process is still running

Why i get no answer?

Copy to stickies does not work anymore

Hello,
As the subject says, somehow I mangled my settings so copy to stickies does not work anymore, pressing shift-option-Y. I have no idea what has changed, restoring the keyboard shortcuts to their default didn't help. Does anyone have a suggestion or a solution?
Kind regards,
Menno Tillema
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.3)

You can open the firefox instead of the safari. It works. However, they should solve this problem. Another bug, after saving the document, don't expect to have the figures and tables in the same place when you reopen it. THIS WAS THE WORST SOFTWARE VERSION EVER! I am totally upset. It is worst than powerpoint now.

Required to "Copy to Play Order" for my non-shuffled playlists

Hi. My playlists synced to my iPhone are in Album order. Beginning about a month ago, adding a new album to a playlist results in the album going to the bottom of the playlist on my iPhone. It's correct on iTunes, but wrong on the iPhone. The workaround is to right-click on the playlist and select "Copy to Play Order" before syncing.
I've been using playlist-based syncing two or three times a day since I bought my nano in 2006, and have never had to do this before; the "Copy to Play Order" command is supposed to only be required when you want to use the sequence of a shuffled playlist on iPhone or iPod.
The only thing that happened around the time the problem started was that I permanently turned off iTunes Match. Creating fresh playlists didn't correct the problem.
Please help!

Hi. Can anyone tell me if this is now normal behavior, or is this something no-one else has seen?

"Copy to Play Order" command missing

I'm using iTunes 8.0.1. Does anyone know what happened to the "Copy to Play Order" command that you used to used be able to get when you CTRL/right clicked on a track in a playlist? This would apply the current sort order (for example, Year) to the permanent order of tracks in the playlist. Perhaps it was removed between v7 and v8.
Thanks.

Thanks for your help! Right or CTRL clicking the the playlist name in the left panel does the trick. It would be nice if Apple put this in the Help file for iTunes. An ancient support article (circa iTunes 4.5) is all that comes up for this topic and it shows the old click-on-track method.
--JV

TA27500 What does " copy to play order " actually mean?

what does it even mean?

In iTunes you can sort playlists by various fields easily but when you copy the playlist to a device the tracks will be ordered according to the Play Order.
If you select the leftmost column of numbers as the sort column then iTunes should reveal the current play order. You can drag tracks up and down this list to rearrange them or, having used one of the other column headings to sort things, right-click on the playlist name and use Copy to Play Order to set the default order for this list when copied to a device.
tt2

MSO - Auto play do not work

Hello,
I have a problem with an old app (single-edition) that I need to update.
The Auto-Play is not working for two MSO I have. I saw few days ago that this was a bug with DPS and iOS 8, but I just read that now it's fixed:
October 20, 2014
iOS viewer fixes
If multiple MSOs on the same page are set to Auto Play, only the first MSO auto-played on iOS 8 devices. This issue is fixed. (3835976).
The problem is, I had 3 articles that did not work before this bug was fixed. I did update my articles and now, only one is okay. II have the same problem with the other two articles.
What I got is an auto-play slideshow with two object states.
Any help? Thanks.

Hi, Nathan. I'm new to this post, but am having a similar issue. I do have Adobe Content Viewer v32.3, so it doesn't sound like that is the problem. I have a 5-state autoplay MSO that works perfectly in the desktop viewer, but won't play on the iPad. It originally existed in a v32 folio, but I created a v26 version just to test it; however, that doesn't work, either. I thought it was possible that it's too large (it was entirely vector made up of a lot of people icons that eventually fill the entire "page"), so I tried creating it using low-res JPGs. Still won't work. The odd thing is, there is another autoplay MSO in a separate article in the v32 folio that works without a hitch.
I've posted the article files to this DropBox URL, just in case you're inclined to take a look. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ue81hx4ee6t79zz/AACJ1Dkh-94_2oKFlyYmdV48a?dl=0
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Copy control for opportunity to Sales order not working

Guys,
I am working on CRM 2007. I set up the copy control for transaction types so that I can convert my Custom Opportunity type to a Sales order.
However when I am in my Opportunity and click on Follow of transactions, my order type is not availabel in the selection list.
I was able to set it up for Lead to Opportunity but opportunity to Sales order is not working.
Any help on this?
Ani

HI Anirudh,
I have a similar requirement such as Copying line item from Complaints to Returns application.
Procedure:
1. Firstly i create an complaint
2. create a follow up document as Returns
3. I enter an product in the complaints and when i click on Copy to returns the line item has to be copied.
Here is the requirement. The line item is copied, but here the problem is, .... The line item doesn't get copied unless and until the instance of the target is retrived.
Could u please help me on this ?

"Copy to Play Order" not working

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for