HT1879 Sort Features in iTunes 11

The sort feature does not work in parts of iTunes 11 - such as when you search for a song, go to show all, there is no ability to sort by columns - such as "popularity" or "artist". Need a fix or a tutorial.

First, are you in the US? iRadio wasn't released outside of the US initially.
If you are in the US and having a problem, take a look at this article to troubleshoot: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5848
Good luck.

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Why do books sort correctly in iTunes but not in iBooks?

I've filled in all necessary info on the sorting tab and, while all my books sort perfectly in iTunes, on syncing my iPhone and iPad, iBooks does not display the books in the correct order no matter what selections are made.
My intent is to have the books in my library, be grouped together by series and displayed in the correct order one would read the series. I'm using Sort Name with a series name and series position designation number along with Sort Author as Last, First. But no luck. I've tried reading through other threads and have yet to come upon a fix. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

The organizing capabilities of iBooks are described in this Apple note in the Features section:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4059
You can ask for improvements via
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Album Sort Order in iTunes vs iPod

WIth the newer Versions of iTunes, albums are sorted in alphabetical order ignoring the word "The". (i.e. On iTunes the following albums would be in this order: Sub Songs, The Super Songs, Suzy Music where on my iPod, the following albums would be placed in this order: Sub Songs, Suzy Music, The Super Songs lumping all "The" titles amongst the Ts.) Does anyone know why this sort feature is not the same on iPod AND iTunes? Please advise.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 14"

Sorting has become a complete mess. Though, it's quite logical from Apple to sort albums by ignoring the because it makes searching for albums a lot easier since there are numerous albums (and artists) beginning with that word.
But I guess that an answer to your question can only be given by an Apple engineer who makes iPod software.
from Apple's website
Seamlessly sync your iPod with iTunes – guess not, huh?!
PowerBook G4 (15-inch Aluminum) Mac OS X (10.4.9) 1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, Combo, Mighty Mouse, iPod 30 GB

Shuffle feature on iTunes

The "shuffle" feature on iTunes was stopped operating, including on the Party Shuffle playlist.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks.

o matter what playlist I want placed in the Party Shuffle's "Source", it always defaults to the Music section, at the top, under the Library.
Not sure what you mean.
If you select *Party Shuffle*, then select a playlist as the Source, iTunes goes back to Music under Library and does not display the Party Shuffle any more?
In addition, when I check "Shuffle" under the "Control" tab
What "Control" tab?
for any playlist, it won't "shuffule the shuffle" if I highlight the "number" column on the far left. Is this normal? If any other column is highlighted, the shuffle control works.
If you are sorting on the very first column, the songs are displayed in the order they are shuffled and will play in that order. If you turn shuffle on and off, you will see the songs change the order in which they are displayed (they get shuffled)
If you select any other column, the songs are sorted by that column but will play shuffled so the playlist jumps around.

My Snow Leopard 10.6.3 has Safari 4.0.4 but this cannot be used for the new features of iTune. I tried upgrading to Safari 5.1.7 but it needs Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Where can I get a version of Safari 5.1 that is compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6.3?

My Snow Leopard 10.6.3 has Safari 4.0.4 but this cannot be used for the new features of iTunes. I tried upgrading to Safari 5.1.7 but it needs Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Where can I get a version of Safari 5.1 that is compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6.3?

Hi..
here can I get a version of Safari 5.1 that is compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6.3?
Not possible. You need to update to v10.6.8
Click your Apple menu > Software Update
Or update using the this download > Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo
Then restart your Mac.

IPhone no longer syncs playlists in the same sort order as iTunes

iPhone 4 no longer syncs playlists in the same sort order as iTunes after iOS5 upgrade. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it is very frustrating. That was one functionality that worked very well. Not only is the sort within the playlist bad but the sorting of the playlists themselves is bad. I used to use an undetscore "-" to sort some of my folders to the top of the play list of the most played playlists and that does not work either. It ignores the underscore and just sorts on the alpha character. Hope this gets fixed.

PLEASE APPLE, GIVE US SYNCING VIA ITUNES BACK!!!!!! Why take away one of the most valuable features of iTunes???? Why take away our choice of syncing via the Cloud or locally with iTunes????

DO NOT UPGRADE TO MAVERICK UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE DEPENDED ON APPLE’S CLOUD. It removes the ability to sync Calendar, Notepad, and Contacts between your apple devices. You then can only sync them via Apple’s Cloud. For those of you like me, that do not want to be depended on an external data base accessible via the Internet or Cel Phone (with data charges).
Why do I not want to use the Cloud to sync and backup?
1. I found I only have one device with me at a time or am sitting at a computer when I add to my calendar, make a note, or add/change a Contact. Syncing with iTunes while upgrading apps and doing a back up to two external hard drives worked great and met my needs.
2. I use WiFi and pay for the minimum data plan with my Cel provider (AT&T). I do not want to pay higher monthly data fees.
3. I do not like a central data base (that will be hacked someday) having the personal info I have in my Notes, Schedule, and Contacts.
4. I like the security of my most important data being on my own hard drives and written off to Data DVD’s, not subject to even rare central system outages/failures.
5. I do not like the prospect of becoming dependent on a Cloud in which the provider could decide at any time to either start selling information or charging monthly fees to recover the costs of providing the cloud.
I am reluctant to go to the trouble to go back to 10.8 because Apple will eventual stop providing updates to 10.8 and 10.8 compatible applications.
PLEASE APPLE, GIVE US SYNCING VIA ITUNES BACK!!!!!! Why take away one of the most valuable features of iTunes???? Why take away our choice of syncing via the Cloud or locally with iTunes????

You will need to contact Apple through their feedfack channel. These are user to user forums, sorry.
FEEDBACK http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Pete

In my opinion, the real solution is for Apple to offer us a choice of the photo sort order in ITunes. My preference would be filename, perhaps with options to choose the Date Taken attribute, file timestamp or date modified filestamp (EXIF date fields as

I tryed to sort my pictures with buying Apps and following suggestion from apple, but without any success. In my opinion, the real solution is for Apple to offer us a choice of the photo sort order in ITunes. My preference would be filename, perhaps with options to choose the Date Taken attribute, file timestamp or date modified filestamp.

Not a problem when using iPhoto on a Mac, which the transfer of photos is primarily based on - not manually managing photo storage as seems to be common with Windoze.
The same should be available with a supported photo management app on a PC.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4221

Compilation Feature in iTunes 10

How do I use the compilation feature in iTunes 10?
I have compilation albums and I dont want random artists clogging up my library. Is there a way I can group them?
Hat

iTunes prefs > General.
Tick *Group compilations when browsing*.
See this -> iTunes - Compilation Albums

Is there any way to get rid of this stupid feature in iTunes for Windows? You've subscribed to a podcast but have more than five unplayed episodes. iTunes will stop automatically downloading newer episodes.

s there any way to get rid of this stupid feature in iTunes for Windows?
You've subscribed to a podcast but have more than five unplayed episodes. iTunes will stop automatically downloading newer episodes. You may get the following message:
iTunes has stopped updating this podcast because you have not listened to any episodes recently. Would you like to resume updating this podcast?
You can click Yes to continue downloading additional episodes. Or you can just listen to any part of any episode and a new episode will download at the next update.

I believe that feature was added in order to reduce wasted costs to the Podcaster.
Podcasts incur costs - that have to be paid for, by someone. That cost will be the cost of hosting the Podcast on a server somewhere and more crucially (with regard to your point), the cost of the Podcast being downloaded to your computer. Every download costs the Podcaster money (typically, charged by bytes downloaded).
If that Podcaster pays for the whole thing personally, obviously they want to keep down any unnecessary cost to themselves. If the Podcaster is earning money for his or her Podcast (typically from advertising within the programme) then obviously, the advertiser only wants to pay for advertisements heard by listeners. So a download, not heard by the downloader, is waste of the Podcaster's money or no payment from the advertiser.
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Sleep Timer Feature in iTunes via Remote iOS app

I'm not sure this is the venue for this, but I would like the "Remote" iOS app (currently version 3.0.1) to let me set a "sleep timer" when I play a radio station on my iMac iTunes 11. I think this means iTunes must first have a "sleep timer" feature built-in before the Remote app can use it. There have been third-party "sleep timer" add-ons for YEARS, and yet Apple has not deemed it necessary to add the feature into iTunes. Unfortunately, these third-party add-ons cannot be accessed via the Remote app.
Anyone here found a work-around?

ok so the remote app is grouping all my album artists together under one Artist name: "various artists"
need to find a way to stop this from happening

Changing Sort order in iTunes

I need to change the sort order in iTunes, pretty much like clicking on the browser header until the sort is "album by artist". Is there a way to do this?
Thanks

Took me a long time to get past the inconsistencies that Accessibility Inspector was revealing in iTunes. I finally ran a verify in Accessibility Verifier and discovered some inaccurate reporting in the Inspector. This works. Figured I would share it.
If things are changed to "Album", it will not do more than re-sort that column. It will not change the Album by... setting. I hope I can figure that out.
-- This will ensure that the artist column is sorted in ascending order
tell application "System Events"
tell process "iTunes"
--read sort of grouping column
set groupSort to (get value of attribute "AXSortDirection" of button "Artist" of group 1 of outline 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1)
-- click button to select artist column if necessary
if (groupSort = "AXUnknownSortDirection") then
click button "Artist" of group 1 of outline 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
end if
-- set to ascending if necessary
if (groupSort = "AXDescendingSortDirection") then
click button "Artist" of group 1 of outline 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
end if
end tell
end tell

I Ipod class wont play TED and other video podcasts. The genious bar could not figure out the problem. This problem is not isolated to a single computer. Secondly, the convert to ipod version feature in Itunes does not resolve the problem.

My Ipod classic wont play TED, The Grid, Techzilla and other video podcasts (but not all video podcasts). The genious bar could not figure out the problem. Instead, the Apple store gave me credit towards a new classic, which produced the same problem. This problem is not isolated to a single computer. Secondly, the convert to ipod version feature in Itunes does not resolve the problem. Lastly, I tried restoring the ipod to no avail. I've heard this is a video codec problem.

See this extensive older thread on the issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2813428?start=45&tstart=0
B-rock

New features of itunes 11.0.3 not there after download

new features of itunes 11.0.3 not there after download

With iTunes 11 some features have been added and some have been removed. Here's a CNET writer's take on them http://m.cnet.com/news/7-features-apple-killed-off-in-itunes-11/57556548
Here's a great resource from Apple that goes over some common features. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5649
You mentioned the sidebar on the left, it's addressed in the resource from Apple. I hope this helps.

New features for iTunes 7.1

Where can I find the new features for iTunes 7.1?
Thank you

They still have some serious flaws with the album art retrival. I find I have to slighty change the artist information even if it matches exactly what's in the music store just to get the album art & some albums download the wrong cover or don't download at all. This is getting very annoying.

HT1879 Sort Features in iTunes 11

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