How do I edit the song order in a playlist?

can you move songs around in an established playlist or do you just have to start over?

You can click and drag them into a desired order in iTunes and then sync the updated changes to your iPod. It's not possible to do this directly on the iPod itself.
B-rock

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Ricardo, It changed in iTunes 11.
With the playlist open, click on the View menu, View Options, and then set the "Sort By" field to "Manual Order." Then you can drag songs up or down.
If you don't see the View menu, you may have your Menu bar hidden. In that case, unhide it first, by using CTRL-B.

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I just recently got an ipod and I'm loving it. I am a heavy music downloader and am also very particular about how my songs are organized (no duplicate artist names, songs, etc.)sometimes a song slips my eye, so how can i edit my songs and artists on my itunes and match it back to my ipod without having to delete them all and update the entire library again?
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Thanks a lot for the help and the quick responses (this discussion site is great)...so one more (Very elementary) question...you both say to sync the ipod "again", how do I do that? I know you sync the ipod when you simply connect it to the computer but after I make song edits, do I manually disconnect then reconnect to automatically update the ipod or is there a drop down button on the top of the itunes page that I can click?
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I'm trying to burn about 20 songs to a CD. However they are in alphabetical order in the burn folder which I don't want. I want then in the original order they were performed. How do I re-order them before burning?
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For example, I would like the "Recently Added" list to be at the top of all my playlists. Thank you for the help,
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These two condions must be true for a playlist to arrange the tracks:
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2) Sorting order must be set on the very first column (with the numbers)
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Hello Pokerplayer62,
In order to update the order of items in your playlists on the iPod Nano, you have to update them on the computer, and then sync the updated playlists to your device.
From the iPod Nano User guide here: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_us/ipod_nano_features_guide.pdf
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Are you sure it's actually shuffling the songs (i.e. the list of songs play in a different order each time through the list)?
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Songs do import in the correct order, usually. So this must be something else that's causing you an issue.
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It sounds like you may be having an issue with one of your purchases in the iTunes Store. Here is an article for you that will help you address this issue:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1933
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Ricardo, It changed in iTunes 11.
With the playlist open, click on the View menu, View Options, and then set the "Sort By" field to "Manual Order." Then you can drag songs up or down.
If you don't see the View menu, you may have your Menu bar hidden. In that case, unhide it first, by using CTRL-B.

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