Import CD reverse track numbers

I imported many CDs and iTunes put in reverse orders. 1st track is in the bottom....why? How to fix?
I read several old discussions here...all answers just click on Column Name or Column Album and will sort by track number...
This problems has been there since at least 2007...Apple will ever fix this?
Very nice if 1 album in iTunes. With more than 4,000 songs if we click those columns it's a difficult to find them....
It appears we can sort by 1 variable...not 2 or 3....
typically I sort by "date added" to listen new music
To click to album its sort by alphabetical all albums...
Are me missing something? Can we sort by more 1 column?

iTunes doesn't do user selectable multi-valued sorts. If you want sorting on the Date Added column to list your most recently added albums in the correct track order then you need to ensure you add your new imports, one track at a time, in reverse track order, at least one second apart (probably not a problem if you're doing it by hand, but it makes a difference). If you are ripping a CD, changing the order so that the tracks are listed in reverse order before starting the rip works. If importing new tracks into your library from elsewhere I have a written a Windows vbScript for automating the process called SortDateAdded which removes the selected tracks and reimports them one by one so that the bubble into the correct order. You probably don't want to use this on existing albums though since it will bring them to the top of the list.
tt2

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Double cd imported in reverse

I've recently re-imported my CD collection into itunes on my MAC (had a Dell before). One particular double cd keeps getting imported in reverse, i.e. when I click on the songs and artists I'm seeing...that i know are on cd 1...a completely different set of songs are played..the list from cd 2. So the correct order, correct song linked to correct artist....but what you see is not what you get....it's like playing the A side of a record but hearing side B instead, I guess. I didn't have this problem before on the other computer...is my only option to manually rename each song and artist? (36 songs)?

I'm going to answer my own question. Insert the CD. If the problem i mentioned remains, iTunes will still display the song tracks in a language that you do not prefer. Highlight all the songs (before importing) and click "Advanced" on your menu bar and then click "Get CD Track Names". You should then be presented with the dialog box you were given before. Pick the opposite (or another depending on how many options you are given) and this should changed your track names to the proper language. I am awesome.

Manually Adding Track Numbers Doesn't Work!

I would like to make a "custom album" for an artist, a greatest hits designed by me, if you will. The songs are all by a single artist, but come from various sources. Some were purchased from iTunes Music Store, some were imported directly from CDs, some were MP3 files from my old PC, etc. (you get the idea).
Anyway, I select all of the tracks, press Command+I to open up the "Get Info" window. For all the tracks at once, I give the album a name ("Best Of Whomever") and manually enter the tracks (1 of 32, 2 of 32, 3 of 32, etc.) I check everything else to make sure there are no inconsistencies between the tracks, as I want all things to be equal. When I'm done, however, there is inevitably a stubborn track (or two or three) that insists on ignoring its assigned track number and placing itself somewhere else in the list. This happens most often with IMS tracks. It's very frustrating and annoying.
The way around it, of course, is to make a playlist. But without folder support for the iPod, playlists quickly become unmanageable.
So my point is, if I manually assign a track a track number, it should go where it belongs and not wherever it chooses to. (And remember, before I assigned track numbers, I gave all of the tracks the same album name and info as a group, so there are no inconsistencies from track to track, like wierd spaces or misspellings.) I've tried everything and can't seem to solve this problem.
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

My suggestion would be to ask in the iWork for iOS forum. Many more iOS users there.
Jerry

Songs listed as track numbers??

My mom got an Ipod for Christmas and I'm trying to help her figure out how to use it.
We just imported a whole CD into the Itunes and synced it....but the songs are listed as track numbers, not the actual title or artists.
I did the advanced/get CD track names thing, and it says "accessing gracenote" and then nothing changes.
Please help, what do we do?

Dial up may be the issue because it's slower than Broadband.
The track/album info is contained in what is known as the Gracenote CD Data Base, and iTunes access this everytime you insert a cd (as long as there is an internet connection).
It would be very unusual for a Bonnie Raitt cd not to be listed as I have about 8 of those imported into iTunes and they all retrieved info from the CDDB correctly.
Try on your computer and if it works ok, the issue is with your Moms computer.
Btw, please don't give points to those who ask for them. The forum Hosts are trying to crack down on this kind of behaviour, and hopefully persistent offenders will have their accounts here suspended.

CD only lists as track numbers

Why do the cd's I make with an eclectic playlist show up as track numbers on other computers (and mine as well) and when i receive other people's cds they show up as track numbers also? Is there a way to make sure your song lists stay with the cd? I have had occasional cds show the original song lists.
I collect movie quotes. I title the quotes and genre them, etc, put them on a back up cd, but if i go to import them again, just comes out as track numbers....why doesn't the original info stay with them.....i realize they will not be in iTunes database when it reads them, but isn't there a backup set up to read those which are not in the iTunes system?

If these are the equivalent of 'mix tapes' (i.e. one-offs) then the Gracenote Database won't have the track information. It's never been held as part of an audio CD - an oversight when the things were first invented? Perhaps in 1982 no-one foresaw the rise of the digital era!
You could manually put in the data yourself, which not only would be remembered by iTunes in future, but you could also upload it to the Gracenote Database which would mean if anyone else got a copy of that exact mix, they could get the track names.

Want to burn cd without track numbers

Using iTunes 9.2 I'm burning a series of mp3 disks. I do not have track numbers turned on in any display (music library or playlist). The mp3 CD I burn shows a track number before the title on the CD. Is there a way not to have the number burned?
Only other thing I can think of that might have some pertinence is that the playlist I'm burning is made up of tracks from imported CDs I own and albums bought in the iTunes store.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Never got an answer to this so I decided to close the question out.

Organizing Music Folder is adding multiple track numbers

When "Keep Music Folder Organized" is checked in Preferences, file names are prefixed with track number. I think there used to be a way to prevent that but I can't find it in the current version (8.2). I could live with the track number prefix, but I now have several cases of the track number being repeated. Here's an example: "1-02 1-02 1-02 Where Did Our Love G". Note that the song name was truncated when the prefixes were added. It hasn't happen to all my tracks, but seems to have happened mostly to those that were imported from .WAV files that I copied from vinyl. Is there a way to prevent this? Is it an iTunes bug? Is there an easy way to remove the prefixes in bulk?

Success! From this thread...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9267705&tstart=0
see turingtest2's note.
The part missing that I know works on Macs and may work on Windows, is AFTER you perform that hack, open preferences click on the Advanced tab and then UN-check "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized", then click OK which dumps you out of preferences. Now open preferences again, and reselect (check) the box for "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" and click OK to get out of preferences. On a Mac, at this point iTunes will go through your whole library and fix all the file names to remove the track numbers in front of the song titles in the media files themselves.
Patrick

Reverse Page Numbering

I need to create a saddle stitched booklet that will have 2 covers. It is for a training that is split in to two sections and we want to have the first session be pages 1-40 and then for the second session we would like participants to flip the book over to the other cover and proceed through pages 41-80 to the center on the booklet. I can do this by rotating the copy on the second half of the document and placing it in reverse order. The prolem is the page numbering. Is there a way to do it automatically. Could the files be set up in two separate files as normal files and then combined whey I output the booklet file? Any ideas.

This comes up from time to time. I would make two documents. If it's going to be commercially offset printed, I'd also let prepress impose them together, then it's their headache, but in any case, if you need to construct a single file for output, place the pages from one doc two into new pages added to doc one, starting from the back. If you use Scott Zanelli's Multi-page Importer Script, you can start at the first blank page and the script will import in reverse order and rotate 180 for you automatically if you say please.
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Help - Reverse Date Numbering Confusion

I'm new to the Aperture forum but not really new to Aperture I've been using it on and off for about 2 years now and mostly have the hang of it
Recently I started to shoot a lot more and since reshaped how I import name and catalog files
I havent really noticed any issues till today when I imported some images after formatting and I'm getting a little confused since my settings for aperture were not updated after the format so maybe someone can shed some light or at least point me in the right direction..
Here is my issue:
When I shoot and import I want to be using a reverse date file name for example 20110101_Charlie_(image number from camera)
Ideally the number would just be that of whatever sequence it was shot from the camera as I dont want every shoot to start with 20110101_Charlie_01 etc.. Id prefer to see 20110101_Charlie_555
I shot someone last week and when I imported them all the numbers were up in the 700 range which was fine It wasnt until I imported a new shoot that I did about 3 weeks before that where I saw the file naming to be down near the 50 mark.. I was really confused.
I went back through some old images I shot a while ago where I was using reverse date and updated them thinking that they would use the camera's numbering system but they all jumped up into the 600's as well and they werent even shot with this camera. It's all getting really confusing
To top it off, when I shoot on the back of my lcd I see the file numbering to be in the 7000's so I have NO idea why Aperture is naming them anything less.
Can someone explain correctly how to either import them with the settings that I want or how to batch edit them (I know how to batch edit and my preference would be importing them with the settings would be easier)
I'm importing them using a custom name and counter and I was simply changing the job names and dates upon import. Is there an easier way to do things?

Quietcity wrote:
1st question: Is there a way to reverse the numbering of pages in a Pages document? For instance, in a 20 page document, is there a way to make the last page be numbered as "page 1" and the first page be numbered "page 20"?
NO with standard tools.
2nd question: is there any way to "flip" the page order of a Pages document? By that, I mean making the last page the actual first page and vice versa, along with a corresponding re-ordering of all the pages therein.
NO
Side rant: The forum search function is pretty crude. My various searches for "page number" or "page numbering" kept giving results as though I was actually searching for "Pages" and "Numbers." And no matter how what search terms I used, with or without single or double quotes, I kept getting the exact same citations.
I apologize but I didn't get the same behavior.
If I search for print number without quotes, I get 10 pages of returned links.
If I search for "print number" with the double quote, I get onlt 5 pages.
This proves that the filter does its duty.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 19 septembre 2009 20:53:48

Getting rid of track numbers in iTunes 8

I prefer to keep my music filenames without track numbers, which iTunes 7 let me do (under Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Importing>Create filenames with track number). However, I can't find this feature in iTunes 8. Can anybody tell me how I can do this without disabline the manage my music feature?
Thanks,

Contact iTunes Customer Service and request that they clear it out.

Trouble with Track Numbers

Hey all! First off, I am running a Windows XP machine.
I think iTunes is a great music organization tool, but the biggest gripe that I've always had with it is editing track numbers.
What I like to do is import customized music folders and assign each file a track number. Now, let's say I skip a number by mistake (i.e. 11, 13, 14), or I want to add another track later into the middle of the album. The only way I know how to fix this is to change each track number manually, which can get really tedious with albums consisting of over 100 songs.
So, is there an easier way to do this? For instance, is there a way to change one track number and have the others below it increase/decrease by one?

This was a very useful tool, so thanks for the link!
The Auto-Numbering wizard does work, but not exactly in the way I want. From what I could tell, you can only sort your tracks by Title, Artist, Filename, etc., and then using the wizard as opposed to clicking and dragging your files to the order that you want and using it that way.
I tried looking around for other tools that would do a click-and-drag option like that after you gave me that link, but no such luck.
Any other easy solutions?

Adding files and using coverflow changed mp3 track numbers to 49, 50, ect.

I imported my MP3 library into iTunes 7 and originally everything was fine. After using coverflow to update the album art, all of my track numbers changed. Now the ID3 information for my tracks is labeled as track numbers ranging from the late 40's (48, 49) to the 50's or 60's (58, 59, 60). See the following image. http://www.twofields.com/wrongtrack.JPG
It's also changed the information in Windows. This image shows that http://www.twofields.com/wrongtrack2.JPG
Please help; I have over 4000 MP3s and they've all been affected. This has only affected my MP3s, the iTunes music is fine. I originally used musicmatch to label and tag my files.
Custom AMD 64 Windows XP

When I view this topic I see
"This question is not answered. "Helpful" answers available: 2. "Solved" answers available: 1."
at the top. How do I find those answers?
This isn't even there anymore. I don't know what happened to it, but it's gone. I'm not really worried about it though.
The MP3 Tagger will work good enough, but I really think Apple should release a patch or some way to fix it. This is going to be very time consuming.

Smart playlist for duplicate track numbers?

Hi Folks,
With Regard to smart playlists is there any way to identify duplicate track numbers on the same disc?
During the import process the disc numbers (where it was a dual cd) we simply listed as disc 1 on the import process.
As a result, some albums have 2 x track 1 and 2 x track 2 etc.
So save me searching through the whole library manually, is there a way to create a smart playlist and search doe duplicate track numbers on the same disc.
In the same light is it possible to search for duplicate artists on the same disc?
Appreciate your help
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks
Simon.
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Hi Simon,
Missed this thread the first time around.. As Chris says this isn't something that you can pick up with a smart playlist. In principle I could write a script that runs through every track in a selection and notices when the same combination of track number, disc number, album title and album artist comes up. A second pass would then add every track from each affected album to a regular playlist for you to go through and fix up.
In practice when I'm hunting for inconsistencies in the library I've found that stepping through the albums using the column browser is quite effective. In my case I'm generally looking for instances where the same album title is reused by different albums, the obvious example being Greatest Hits, as these jumble together on my iPod classic. When this happens I retitle each album as <Album> - <Album Artist> to separate them. Using the column browser I reckon I can scan through the library at about 2 albums a second, stopping only when something looks amiss.
So, are you still hunting for your misnumbered double albums?
tt2

I've been importing all my old CDs into itunes but one of them which was unknown imported as single tracks. How can I combine these into one album

I've been importing all my old CDs into itunes but one of them which came up as unknown has imported as single tracks named track 1, track 2 etc. It wasn't an obscure CD (Paul Carrack - the journey so far) but not one that's available in the itunes store. I've manually changed the track names but they all appear as single tracks in the "Albums" section. Is there a way to put them all into an album to show up as an album with the other albums. Other "unknown" CDs I imported have imported with the correct track names but just don't have the album artwork so I don't understand why this one is behaving totally different?

If you select the tracks all together in iTunes/ Songs then go to File/Get info you will be asked "Are you sure you want to edit information for multiple items?" Go ahead and you can make them into an album, putting in the artist name, etc.

Song names imported as "artist - track name" instead of "track name"

When I add a folder to my library (a folder which contains MP3 files which all contain complete ID3 tags), about 50% of the song names get imported as "artist - track name" instead of just "track name". If I click on any track which was imported like this, and right-click and select "get info", the track name shows up correctly in the dialog box, and it suddenly fixes the display on the listing (without me doing anything).
I could fix each song by clicking "get info", but I would have to do this for all my songs, which would take far too long. Is there any way to get iTunes to import these track names correctly? Or is there a way to refresh the listing, and have iTunes re-read the ID3 tags on the MP3 files?
Windows XP Pro

To get the track names etc., when importing a CD, you have to be connected to the Internet.
This article explains why.
To get the info later, select all tracks (with the generic track names) of an album and choose 'Get CD Track Names' from the Advanced menu in the menubar.
Very often the correct information will show up.
Hope this helps.
M
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