ITUNE Playlist?? - Problem moving playlists items to a different order

After creating a new playlist in ITUNES and moving what music you want into that playlist, I am not able to move sounds down into a different order.

I understand the columns are numbered and am familer with click and dragging. All other playlists work except this one. Are there any settings to check that would cause this one to experence problem?

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    Hello all,
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    OK, since you are desperate and all...
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    font-size: 10px;
    margin: 0px;
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    width: 720px; height: 340px;
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  • ITunes switches playlist items by itself

    My 2009 21.5 iMac running OS 10.8.4 often switches playlist items (radio stations) by itself. It is also not sleeping properly, and often wakes itself up. Has anyone else been able to resolve similar problems?

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  • I am having problems with my ipod syncing all of my videos to my ipod from my itunes playlist, it will only sync about half even though they are all checked

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  • ITunes & Playlists (unchecked items)

    Here is the story.
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    - I rate songs to target portable playlists (rock, Irish, etc)
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    - I have two airport express devices hooked up to speakers
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    I would like to have my itunes system play tunes in a shuffle regardless of their checked status. checked items, as itunes is designed, are to manage what gets synced, not shuffled. It would be great if a preference was set in itunes to toggle checked items in the shuffle - after all, it holds the entirety of the library. This is now coming to a head for me now with christmas. I want my itunes to play christmas shuffles, but do not want them to sync to the ipods.
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    I have exactly the same request for change. When a playlist is created, be it either static or dynamic, it can contain both selected and unselected items. What iTunes should do is just (have at least an option to) play all of the songs regardless of them being checked or unchecked. This seems quite a simple feature.
    I (and so it seems the topic opener) use the checkmark for syncing purpose only.
    I think a workaround can be as follows:
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    * this playlist can contain both selected and unselected items
    - Select all in this playlist and invoke Check Selection
    - Whenever you want to sync, first remember to open the playlist 'Do Not Sync'
    - Select all and invoke Uncheck Selection
    - Start the sync
    All this hassle can quite easily be solved when iTunes would have an option to play songs regardless of them being selected or unselected.
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    Stoic
    //Message was edited by: Stoic18
    Correction on the statement "unfortunately there is no way to filter/search for/sort on unselected items". By using creative smart playlist it seems you actually can filter all your unselected items as mentioned @ http://www.macworld.com/article/134675/2008/07/checkuncheckitunes.html :
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    Genre is not Podcast
    Playlist is not Movies
    Playlist is not TV Shows
    Playlist is not Audiobooks
    Do not enable the Match Only Checked Items option and save this smart playlist as Unchecked. Now when you want to easily see what is and isn’t checked, visit these two playlists.
    Message was edited by: Stoic18

  • Moving songs around in itunes playlists

    I cannot move songs around in my itunes Playlists. what setting do i need to change so i can do this?

    Click on the header bar for the numbers column on the extreme left. It should change colour and a little triangle should appear.
    Now you can move songs around to different positions.

  • After turning on iTunes Match, songs in playlist are in the wrong order across all devices.

    So in iTunes, my client had several playslists, all with songs in a specific manual order.  None of them are smart playlists.
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  • Copying Music Files and iTunes Playlists Onto New Computer

    I just received my new MacBook Pro and am going to need to copy my music files, iTunes playlists, etc. from my existing PC to my new MacBook Pro. Can anyone recommend some good/definitive articles or posts on how to do this seamlessly?
    One thing I should note is that while I keep a lot of my music in my iTunes folder, I also keep a lot of it in other folders on my hard drive, and I'd strongly prefer to maintain this file organization. I'm hoping this won't cause any issues with the transition. I also really, really, really hope I'm able to cleanly transition my playlists without having to manually recreate anything, as I have hundreds of playlists that I've spent literally thousands of hours curating!
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    if i were you, i would move my complete library to the Mac first. you can easily move content to different locations later on. please post back if you want to know more.
    my reasons are these:
    1) as the articles i linked above outline, it is not as simple as +drag & drop+ if you want to retain playlists, ratings, etc. when making the move from winsloth to Mac. check this thread for possible problems: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11495714#11495714.
    2) it is generally better to let iTunes do the moving of files. if you do his manually, chances are iTunes will lose track of their location.
    well, you might want to wait and see if another user comes up with a brighter idea
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  • ITunes playlist order sync help?

    Okay, so I have my music in my playlist setup to organize my music by the date they were added. New music I add is always at the top of the playlist. When I use to sync my iPhone it would be in that order on my phone too, newest songs that were added were on top. I upgraded to iOS 5 now my playlist on my phone are in alphabetical order. On iTunes it is still in the order I would like it to be. Does anyone know how I could fix this? It's not really a big deal but I prefer the way it is on iTunes. I was working before and I just want it to be like that now..
    Thanks in advance.

    For a Most Recently Added Playlist for music on iPhone 4, iOS 5.0, iTunes 10.5 (141), Here's what worked for me after lots of experimenting:
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  • When playing songs in iTunes playlist, How do you keep the next song from jumping to next song? I am working on song list updating other tracks info and then the next song starts and I lose my spot in song list?

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  • I cannot burn itunes playlist to a cd.

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