Filing albums in track order

Can anyone help with downloading albums so that they are filed in itunes library in the correct track order? At the moment I can only do this by creating separate playlists for each album as the library stores them in alphabetical order.

Hammer...itunes will load the files in the correct rack order as long as the track information is properly filled in itunes...
I have ripped all my CD collection and imported to itunes and all my tracks get loaded properly becuase my tag informaiton is correct.
If you buy music from the itunes store, you do not need to worry about the tag information becaus the song will already have all that.

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How do I get Itunes to list an album in track order including ignoring featured artists

I recently downloaded Daft Punk's new album after buying it on vinyl. after importing it to itunes, itunes wont list the album in track order. instead it lists the tracks in order per artists. example Daft punk, then Daft punk featuring Pharrel Williams ect...how do i get itunes to understand that they're all the same album and to list them in track order??
thanks

Hi bdm105!
Most likely, this is happening because the Album Artist field is different for each song from Random Access Memories. We have an article about song grouping in iTunes, and it can be found here:
Why aren't songs with the same album art grouped together?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
There are a couple ways to fix the information listed for Random Access Memories outlined in that article, but I want to point out one here:
Albums in which all songs don't have the same Album Artist information
iTunes 7 and later includes a new attribute for song files called Album Artist This allows you to assign a primary artist name for an album that many includes songs by several artists. It is important that all songs in the album have the same Album Artist name. To assign an Album Artist, select all the songs in the album and choose Get Infofrom the File menu. Next, type a name in the Album Artist field name such that it will apply to all the selected songs. This field can optionally be left blank if all the songs have the same album name.
The Album Artist field is shown in the above picture, but it is not highlighted. You will also want to make sure the Track Number field contains the correct information for the album, and information on that field can be found here:
Fixing Incorrect Song or Album Listings in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ta24677
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

Playing albums in track order-please

Why and how can it be so freaking hard to play an album on itunes starting with the first track and then go on from there in order!??
The only way is to go to the search area and look up the album, and then hit the track # tab. Or to always organize your music by artist. This is ridiculous. I personally like to view my music in the 'date added' order and I can find no way to fix this problem.
Artist and recording engineers and producers spend many hours sequencing a full collection of songs, choosing the track order, deciding how many seconds should go in between pieces, so some of us really want to respect this and listen to whole albums the way that they were intended to be played!
Please add an option that helps solve this!!!
B.

iTunes plays things in the order in which they are displayed on the playlist which you are playing. If you're playing a playlist in which you are viewing items in order added and that doesn't happen to be the track order then by order added is what you'll get. If you start the list in track order and then change the display to order added then it will switch to that order. One way is to have two sets of playlists and view one in order added while playing the second in album mode. Of course the highlight won't be on the currently playing track, but at least you can continue to view your music in whatever order you wish while the other list continues to play the tracks in order. Alternatively, just make sure your tracks are added to your list by play order, then at least it will play in the correct order within an album.
Apple doesn't use the AD forums for providing product feedback or suggestions since this intended to be an end-user to end-user (i.e., users like you helping other users) technical issue support feature. You should send feedback via:
[http://www.apple.com/feedback> - Apple products feedback links

Playing Albums in Track Order

Using iPod Classic I'm able to make an album play in track order if I select it from the album list but it seems album tracks always display and play in alphabetical order if selected via a search.
Is it possible to make individual albums always display and play in track order?

iTunes plays things in the order in which they are displayed on the playlist which you are playing. If you're playing a playlist in which you are viewing items in order added and that doesn't happen to be the track order then by order added is what you'll get. If you start the list in track order and then change the display to order added then it will switch to that order. One way is to have two sets of playlists and view one in order added while playing the second in album mode. Of course the highlight won't be on the currently playing track, but at least you can continue to view your music in whatever order you wish while the other list continues to play the tracks in order. Alternatively, just make sure your tracks are added to your list by play order, then at least it will play in the correct order within an album.
Apple doesn't use the AD forums for providing product feedback or suggestions since this intended to be an end-user to end-user (i.e., users like you helping other users) technical issue support feature. You should send feedback via:
[http://www.apple.com/feedback> - Apple products feedback links

Combining tracks into one album, choosing track order

Hi, I've searched this forum and haven't been able to solve this yet.
I have a bunch of b-sides that I want to add to an album proper. Say the album has 12 tracks. I am able to add an additional song to the album, which increases the track count to 13 tracks. Only problem is, track number 13 is at the top of the list (album view), so the play order is 13,1,2,3 etc....
I have experimented with the "track number 13 of 13" option, and although the info tells me it is indeed the last track of the album, iTunes refuses to show it numerically in order.
How do I make it so these additional tracks play at the END of the album, and not the beginning, with the ultimate goal transferring the entire thing to my iPhone?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Ryan Campbell4

Ryan:
First off, in the Get info>Info pane, make sure that they all say disk 1 of 1, OR that there's nothing there at all. Also make sure that Artist and Album Artist match up.
Second, go to the sorting pane, and make sure that anything you've added matches what was there in the first 12 songs.
See what those do for you--
Best of luck,
Doc

Albums dont organise in track order.

hi. for some reason organising my itunes library by 'date added' means the albums are never in order and displayed together.
is there any way of organising it so albums (in track order) show in 'date added'?
thanks!

They all appear to have been added at the same time and date. Are these store downlods? They may be tagged according to download creation time and the downloads are not finishing in order. You could avoid this in future by telling iTunes not to do parallel downlods, and then hope that it downlods them an album at a time.
Check the Dougscripts web site. There is a script that lets you edit the date added field.

ITunes track order problem

I have purchased an EP by a band, featuring three songs. A month later the band released their full length album featuring the songs off of the EP. I wasn't given an option to buy the full length version, instead iTunes opted for a discounted version due to the songs already being in my "Library". I would have bought the full length despite the songs I already own. When I downloaded the full length album the track order got screwed up. Is there a way to change the track numbers so that they appear in the proper order in the Library? As this is where I listen to my music from, and not from a playlist! This is a huge problem as it misrepresents the artists' view of what the album should sound like from start to finish. This boarders on the same level as a museum curator cutting up a painting and reassembling it the way the want to.

Thanks Turingtest2! This corrected the problem. Your article is great and I highly recommend it to everyone as it also fixed some other problems I was having with some Greatest Hits CD's, etc. Again, great article and many thanks!

Track order changing on ipod since updating to itunes7

after upgrading to itunes7, i updated my ipod, to find that on some of my albums the track order had changed. for example, track 7 would be before track 1.
i dont understand why its happening, as the track order on my itunes library is correct.
someone had a similar problem with track order changing but it was happening to their itunes library. heres the link for that http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=663895&tstart=15
i left a post on that thread to see if i get any replies from that.
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thanx

I'm experiencing the same issue: iTunes (7.0.1.8) OK, iPod (5th gen) some albums messed up. Checked album settings, e.g. 'Artist', 'Album artist', 'track numbers' and reimported album, etc., however, so far unsatisfactorily. Did you manage to solve the problem?

How can I re-sort my albums both chronologically and in track order?

Hi all,
All of a sudden, the correct album track order on my iPod Classic has gone haywire!
I have many, many playlists, containing albums by all my favourite bands, arranged in chronological order. This means that I can start playing the Beatles (for instance) with "Please Please Me", and work my way through to "Let It Be:Naked", playing each album in its turn, with the track listing of each album in their original order.
Of course, I have to tell iTunes to sort "Album by Artist/Year" to achieve this end, and up until just recently, things have been fine. Most of my 250+ artist-dedicated playlists are sorted this way.
Now, all of a sudden, I find that the track order within these albums in iTunes are appearing in a completely random order. The only way I can get the correct track sequence back again is to re-sort the list by "Album" which re-arranges the albums alphabetically, but that does not list them chronologically....
I have tried re-sorting the chronologically dated and named albums by clicking the column header, and when it comes up with sorted by "Album by Artist / Year" (which is where it ONCE was all automatically sorted into correct sequence of track numbers) now, it comes up with all the album tracks in random order, within each album.. It sorts the albums into the correct chronological order, but the tracks within these albums are all messed up.
As I said earlier, if I choose to sort each playlist simply "By Album", then all the tracks on each album are in the correct order, so I KNOW that the correct ID Tag info is still there..
Until now, I have been able to pride myself on (usually) being able to manage the sometimes quirky moods of iTunes, which I have been using for over a decade - but I have never had this problem before.
Please also note that all my 23,000+ tracks have album dates, track numbers, artists, groupings, genres, play counts, and most also have cover images.
This week, I have downloaded and re-installed iTunes 10.6.3.25, but still no change.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to what I can do to get things back the way they were again?
Many thanks,
Rusty Shay

Hello there,
Hi there Chris CA,
Many thanks for your reply.
I just tried using the column browser as you suggested, but it remains the same.
I can either have the albums by any one artist sorted alphabetically - with the tracks in the correct sequence....
Or I can have the albums sorted by year of release - with the tracks in random order....
But not both!
The most curious thing is that all playlists are not affected. Probably three or four out of the 250+ are listed the way I want them all to be.
It's driving me bloody crazy!

How do I get my iPhone to play all albums by any given artist in consecutive album track order like it does on an iPod?

When I select an artist on my iPod Classic and then select "all albums," I can play multiple albums consecutively without losing the track order of each individual album. On my iPhone 4S, however, when I select an artist there's only the option to select "all songs," and it lists all the tracks alphabetically and plays them in that order, making it impossible to listen to one album followed by another. It isn't a problem if I select one album at a time, as the tracks then remain in their original order from the album, but it won't keep the proper orderings if I want to play all of the music by an artist and select "all songs." Is there some way to change it so that when I view all tracks by an artist I can see them and play them in their original intended track order, not in the alphabetical listing order?

Delete the file and re-download again.

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When uploading a cd onto itunes on my imac it has choosen to copy the original cd into 4 seperate cds and mix up the track order, particularly annoying as this is a mixed cd (Guy Gerber, fabric 64) . Any ideas why when everthing else copies perfectly and how to rectify this problem?

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Sort order of album ignoring track #

I am having a problem where track 9 of a specific 14 track album is listed between tracks 11 and 12 rather than between 8 and 10. I have removed and re-imported the folder at least 10 times. I have tried all of these things before re-importing:
Renamed the files
Re-encoded the files
Updated the ID3 tags of the files
Still I cannot change how iTunes chooses to sort this album. It's almost as if the secondary sort criteria were not track # but some other attribute that eludes me. This is driving me insane. I can't figure out a way to get this album to simply play in order, other than to create an independent playlist just for that one album.... and that doesn't really mesh with the way I use it.
Can someone help me?
My 20th or so Windows XP Pro

Try making sure they all have the same "album artist" field filled in. if any of them are blank, these get put at the top. or the end... i forget. also, make sure they all say, "disc 1 of 1" in the track info. that should put them in track order.
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Track order of my album out of order

Hello,
I am having issues with my song order on my itunes.
Usually when I put my songs of a certain album in my itunes and click the album tab at the top the songs are in order by track number in my album, but for one of my albums its in a completely messed up order and I can't figure out why.
What I have tried so far:
-I used the "get info" and made sure that the track number is there in order (1-20) for each song.
-For the track number I also tried listing it as 1 of 20, 2 of 20, 3 of 20...etc but it has no effect.
-I used "get info" and tried typing 1 of 1 for the disc number for each song in my album but it did nothing so I changed it back to what it was, (it doesn't say anything)
-I even renamed my songs starting with a 1-20 corresponding to its track number, nothing changed.
-I even did this to the song files on my computer with windows media player so the files themselves have the correct track number and numbering in song name, I used the "Advanced tag editor" on WMP.
- I sync songs manually by dragging the songs into my "music" under my ipod, not my itunes library, this always worked except for this album, I tried syncing my songs about 5 or so times
-I use a windows XP 2005 edition and the new nano ipod
Other info:
-The album name is the same for each song, so all the songs are in the same album.
-It is set to album, not album by year or artist or anything else.
-It is not on shuffle, the order is physically out of order so when i play it on "play once" or similar it's suppose to go on to the next song in that track order but since it's in a messed up order it plays in that messed up order where normally on a normal un-messed up order album it would play the next track number in order since it is in order on my itunes.
Other info 2:
-I do not want to make a playlist, I want the album in order on my itunes so when I'm using my ipod I can just go that album and play the songs according to track number.
-The reason why I want it into order a lot is because this album is a "gapless megamix" which means when the songs transaction into the next song is unnoticeable since the song transact into the next song without pausing, so basically it is like one big, one hour song when actually composed of 20 songs, so the album must be in order.
So in a nut shell I just want my album's songs to be in track order.
Thanks

Sorry for double posting but I wanted this to be in a different post
Ok, after hours and hours of hurting my head I found the solution to this.
The problem is that in the "sort" tab under the "get info" section is that there are 2 sections for artists, one is just "artist" and the other is "album artist."
When you erase the "album artist" the track number reorders itself correctly, so I just needed to leave "artist" and delete the "album artist."
Now my track order is not messed up.
Hopefully this may help other people who are having the same issue.

Album Track Order Problem

I have recently noticed that the track order in some of my albums has gone all screwy. Even though when I go to >Get Info, and verify that the track order and disk number is correct, they don't appear in the order listed.
For Example, when I sort by album, the tracks now appear in this order:
Track 7
Track 11
Track 13
Track 5
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3, etc...
I realized there were some issues with iTunes version 7, and have updated to version 7.0.1, but even after I have reput the track info they still appear out of order.
Dell Dimension 8400 Windows XP Recently updated from iTunes 7 to iTunes 7.0.1

Ahh... yep, that was it. Never would've even bothered to change those, because I didn't think it would effect the track order..
^_^ Thanks a bunch.

ITunes Album Track Order

I basically spend 8 hr a day listening to iTunes and I have a really frustrating issue that I can't imagine should be as difficult to get around - but I can't seem to figure it out.
I buy quite a bit of music either through emusic, itunes or cd's. Since I had probably 1/2 dozen albums a week, I ideally want to open itunes and just start listening to the last album I imported (in order) followed by the 2nd most recent album, etc -- and ideally listen for my entire workday. The problem is multifaceted:
1. Emusic automatically imports music I download. It processes them in reverse order, which is good since it makes song #1 the most recent "date added" which allows me to sort by "date added" and listen in order. Unfortunately, since it processes multiple songs at a time, shorter songs beat the song before it -- and it makes a mess of the track order. They get numbered correctly, but they're "date added" are incorrect -- which messes up my listening order.
2. When I import a CD, it starts at track 1 -- making it impossible to use the "dated added"field as a sort.
3. I believe Itunes acts like a cd on importing, so again the order is bungled.
I have about 6,000 songs so I don't think it's feasible to change each CD one by one, but I can't imagine there isn't some way to just listen to my newest album, in order, then my next newest, etc.
Does anyone know if there's a way to do this? I can't imagine I'm the only person who listens to music this way. Right now, I wind up filtering to the album, sorting by track, and listening to CD's one by one. I can get through like 20 albums in a day, so this it makes it really tought to get into a flow at work.
This has bothered me for well over a year, and I've searched many discussion groups and haven't come across any similar threads -- so I decided to just ask flat out.
Any help would be incredible, thank you.

hmmm... I didn't realize that was an option, but that definitely helps. I guess part two can be to request emusic to NOT IMPORT automatically, and I can just load the tracks in reverse order.
Of course that helps moving forward, but I guess I'm stuck with out of order imports on the existing library (not the end of the world).
I really wish Itunes would allow a secondary sort to allow us to sort albums and just leave the track numbers alone -- I'd say 99% of the time, people want the album tracks in order, so it's silly to have most of the sort options mess with that order.

Filing albums in track order

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