Drag and drop in iTunes

Drag and drop is seriously broken in iTunes an has made managing songs an exercise in futility.

The problem occurs intermittently now that I think about it when I try to rearrange the order of songs that are already on the shuffle. I will highlight an album using the shift key and holding down the left click (The Mouse, MacMice). After a second if it works all songs can be dragged to wherever I want. But the problem is while still keeping the left click of the mouse held down, only one song will be dragged, thus getting the songs out of intended order. Then after using get info to find proper album order, drag and drop messes up again and again so you have a confounded mess. Anyway I didn't want to get into specifics here because I feel that flaming is just around the corner. I just wanted to voice my displeasure about drag and drop not working properly. Thanks, mp

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Thanks, Steve.
As you found, when I showed the sidebar copy and paste started working. Why? I don't know, but it was progress.
However, drag and drop from the library to a playlist, from a playlist to a playlist or even within a playlist simply does not work.
I spent a long time talking to Apple people, eventually going to a supervisor. However, we had no success after trying a number of things.
They have sent a ticket to Apple engineers. I look forward to hearing from them.

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Because you do not have manually manage music selected?

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I hope that Apple will fix this soon! Until Apple fixes this, your best bet is to download iTunes 9. I did, and all my drag
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I am having a similar problem. For some time I have had sudden loss of drag and drop so that I cannot even move a song around in a playlist, much less to another list. The only thing that stops the is a full system reboot. I have been waiting for a fix however version 10 is much worse. I am having this fail almost every day. I am running an internet radio show from my computer and use iTunes to set up playlists. When I have this problem happen, I have to kick my listeners off and reboot. This is NOT an acceptable situation. I am running iTunes 10.01 on a 2.8 GHz Core i7 iMac with 8 GB of onboard memory. This problem has been happening since at least version 9, however.
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Drag and drop into iTunes

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FIX for can't drag and drop to iTunes anymore

Just fixed this problem for my sister who updated iTunes to 11.5.1 and found drag and drop not working anymore:
Rightclick on the iTunes shortcut (or .exe in your Program Files).
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No drag and drop from iTunes to Toast anymore

Hello
I love to create compilations for my friends using the crossfade tool within Toast10. Now apple prevents dragging titels directly into Toast since iTunes 8 or 9. You have to copy them on the desktop first, which is great because you have to keep them there if you want to save your compilation in Toast.
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Regards from Hamburg, Germany
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
This of course presumes it's Apple's problem to correct, and not a design change with Toast. Meanwhile, Toast (at least Toast 10) provides the Media Browser with which to select from your iTunes library.
I also presume that you're only giving your friends tracks that are in the public domain or of which they already own legal copies, yes?

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Microsoft Windows XP
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Microsoft Windows Vista
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Microsoft Windows 7
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