Itunes insists on reorganising a series of talks by track number into groups so destroying the cd order

I have a 5 cd set with tracks numbered 1-16 on each cd.
Itunes insists on grouping all same track numbers together,so destroying the overall sequnce of the talks.
How can I get it to leave the integrity of the cds alone?

View > Show View Options might help you.

Similar Messages

I've just upgraded to iPhone 4S and restored data from my old iPhone through iTunes. I'm being asked for a password to get into my phone and the old password I had doesn't work. I don't know what password it's looking for

I've just upgraded to iPhone 4S and restored data from my old iPhone through iTunes. I'm being asked for a password to get into my phone and the old password I had doesn't work. I don't know what password it's looking for

Thanks for replying, I'm a real techno-cretin. What do you mean by not using the backup? I'm busy trying to restore my new phone and it's doing a 6 hour download with updates. Can I restore the data from my old phone backup onto the new iPhone 4S when the download is done?

I have just put an audio book into my iTunes music library. When I tried to transfer it to my iPod shuffle it rearranged the tracks so that they are in the wrong order. How can I put them in the order they appear in the book?

I have just put an audio book into my iTunes music library. When I tried to transfer it to my iPod Shuffle it put the chapters in the wrong order i.e. Chap 1, Chap 10, Chap 11 etc. rather than Chap 1, Chap 2, Chap 3 ... How can I get it to put them in the order they appear in the book?

First, we need to know if the audiobook chapters are being treated by iTunes as music files or as audiobooks. If they are not audiobooks purchased from the iTunes store, they might be getting "shuffled". You will need to look at "File" - "Properties" (I think - I don't use iTunes under Windows - or right-click on the file and choose "properties") and look at the media type. If it is "Music", change it to "Audiobook". If this is not the problem, or does not fix anything, please post back.
Actually, looking at your post again, a second thought occurs to me - assuming there are less than 100 chapters in the book, just renaming them with a leading zero on the first nine chapters might do it. A computer will alphabetically sort filenames in the order you quote (1, 10, 11, 12, 13, ... 2, 21, etc.) but a leading zero will fix that (01, 02, 03 ... 10, 11, 12)

Why when I copy a CD from my PC to iTunes do the tracks load into different sections of the library?

I've just bought an ipod touch 64gb and have successfully set up iTunes etc. The issue is that when I paste a CD into iTunes from my PC sometimes the tracks are as on the CD but other times they get split up and can be found throughout the iTunes Library. When I try and drag them to the correct album it won't let me drop it. Should I be doing something else or is this a known feature of iTunes that I must learn to live with.

Generally all you need to do is fill in an appropriate Album Artist. For more details see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums, in particular the topic One album, too many covers.
tt2

ITunes puts track number in name field?

I recently updated iTunes to 10.5 and a new issue has arisen. I loaded a new album into my library and I proceeded to apply track numbers to the songs. Usually I would click "Get Info" on the first song, enter the number in the track field, hit alt+n to go to the next song, type the next track number, etcetera. However when I hit alt+n to go to the next track, the name field gets highlighted instead of the track number field, so I have to click again on the track number field before I enter the number. This is quite a hindrance as before I could easily apply many track numbers within a short time, but this makes things so much more tedious. Is there a setting to fix this, or is this just a temporary bug that will be fixed later?

It's supposed to be able to cope with slightly different file & folder structures, missing track numbers, all tracks in just an artist folder, everything in Unknown Artist\Unknown Album etc. Details here. Can you give me an idea of how things are set out? Maybe it needs a little tweak to cope with the way you've done things, or we could use something like MediaMonkey to reorganize what you have into something the script can work with.
I'm going to be out for much of the day but I'll look in on this thread later.
tt2

Why does iTunes insist on downloading TV show?

Hi,
With our Apple TV device we purchased a season of the Big Bang,
Can someone explain to me why iTunes insist on downloading every new episode to my MacBookAir while all we want to do is watch it with Apple TV directly from iTunes?
It's annoying, takes up HUGE amounts of time and space. I've looked everywhere for a way to cancelt eh downloads to my MacBookAir but can not find it. Is there a way to turn this off?
Thanks in advance.
Christine

Bummer ;-(
I have downloaded each and everyone because as you state the queue gets bigger and bigger. But I so hoped there would be a way to opt out of the download. Do not see the use for that mandatory download.
It's okay when we're at home but we tend to be on the road with our RV a lot. WiFi in RV parks are kind of flaky and often remind me of the 56k modem times. Dealing with these weekly downloads is just a hassle.
Thanks for your reply!
Christine

I mistakenly asked iTunes to download a TV series and I can't get it to stop trying to download it. how do I kill the download?

I mistakenly asked iTunes to download a TV series and I can't get it to stop trying to download it. how do I kill the download?

You've got to be freakin' kidding me. I'm in Brazil, I accidentally started a 2.2GB download that it says will take 592 minutes to download, and there's no way I can stop it and download something else until that first download finishes? I would have thought it was unthinkable 15 years ago that anyone would build an app that downloads things but doesn't allow the option of canceling the download, but in this day and age? So much for Apple making intuitive, user-friendly products.

Itunes says I have incomplete series passes. I have downloaded everything, so how can I get it to complete the pass?

itunes says I have incomplete series passes. I have downloaded everything, so how can I get it to complete the pass?

Try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

Hallo mein Itunes lädt keine gekaufte serie mehr und sagt mir ich soll mich bei ihnen melden

Hallo mein Itunes lädt keine gekaufte serie mehr und sagt mir ich soll mich bei ihnen melden

if you bought the phone in Germany, then you will have to go to apple support there.

I forgot my passcode for my ipod and ive tried it so many times that now it says ipod is disabled connect to itunes and i dont see anything that talks about the passcode

i forgot my passcode for my ipod and ive tried it so many times that now it tells me ipod is disabled connect to itunes and i dont see anything that talks about the passcode

Some Solutions for Resetting Forgotten Security Questions: Apple Support Communities

Why is my iTunes insisting on 'determining audio volume' every time?

I upgraded to iTunes 9 a few weeks back and seemingly from that point onwards my iTunes application wants to 'determine audio volume' on a great number of tracks as soon as the program is launched.
The setting is unticked in Preferences on iTunes and on the iPod I synch with.
I don't want it to be doing this, especially as I'm quite happy to manually change this level if I feel its required, but can find no way of preventing it, aside from clicking on the 'x' in the top window whenever it starts - which is becoming tiresome.
I've tried deleting the cache file in Library > Caches and also starting up in Safe Mode and then opening again in normal mode but all to no avail.
Help!!!

Make sure you have also unticked sound check in the burn settings dialog you get when you burn a playlist to disc.

ITunes insists on importing WMA files alphabetically - not good

I am dragging music from My Music file into iTunes, which is quick and easy, but iTunes is putting them in alphabetical order instead of the order they are on the CD/album. Do I have a choice in the order? Please help - this is not life threatening, but very annoying. Thanks.

Select one or more tracks (use SHIFT or CTRL for multiple selections), then right-click & *Get info* or use CTRL-I to get the tag editing dialog. To set track numbers select the first listed track of the album, CTRL-I, enter the correct track number, press next, enter the next number. Repeat until you've labelled every track.
You say you can see track numbers in Windows Media Player, but what about Windows Explorer in details mode? Do the track numbers show there? WMP sometimes updates it's own library without comitting the changes to the file's tag. It's supposed to queue up the writes & do them later when it's not busy but it sometimes forgets altogether. In WMP *Library... Apply Media Information Changes* should force it to commit all updates.
tt2

ITunes plays songs in the wrong order

For the past few weeks iTunes has insisted on jumping all over the place when playing songs. It plays randomly, but only from the same artist. If I'm playing an album, it doesn't go automatically from track 1 to 2, but seems to select the next track completely randomly.
I've tried sorting the songs by artist, track number, album etc. but the problem persists. Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of iTunes, but that didn't help either.
Thanks in advance for advice and help!

I use iTunes and built in look up as well and it sort my library in album order. However this is assuming you sort the library by artist (click on the artist heading to sort by artist). And then within artist is will sort by album name alphabetically and within each album by album order.
Just checked and if I sort my library by album, albums get listed in alphabetical order but again, within the album it is in album order.
Grace Notes (CDDB) should fill in the track number and total number of tracks for you automatically.
So back to your last question, I am not sure what you mean exactly. Are we talking about sorting the library as a whole or do you mean specifically within Playlists?
Patrick

How can I get iTunes to display the tracks from a CD in their original (album) order?

To be absolutely honest, I don't really understand what this box is for, so I shall just use it to repeat and expand on my question. (I have already sent a "Feedback" comment on the same topic).
How can I get iTunes to display the tracks from a CD in their original (album) order?
It seems to me that there is something very basic wrong with the way iTunes handles CD Tracks.
Professionally produced CD tracks are seldom if ever in a randomised order. Why then does iTunes seem unable to display the tracks in the order they appear on the original CD source - whether from a personally owned CD or from a download from the iTunes Store?
Some music demands a specific, non-alphabetic sequence in order to make sense. Why does it seem that iTunes only offers Alphabetic, or reverse alphabetic order - both of which make a nonsense of the original, often intended order of tracks?
Why not replace the so-called "cover-art" in the bottom left hand corner if the iTunes window - which, while it may look attractive to some, gives the barest of information concerning the original disc, with a list of the original CD tracks in their original order, so that the user can easily reestablish the order in which they should be played.
As I would expect legibility might be a problem with doing this, why could not the original contents, (in their original order), at least, be displayed when the "cover art" is double clicked-on - the result of which at present gives me an enlarged version of the "Cover Art". While on the subject of the contents of the source disc, what about all the album notes which someone takes trouble to write in order to increase the appreciation of the music on the CD and the listener's general background knowledge of the artists involved. Such notes, it seems to me, have considerable intrinsic value in their own account. I would, I think, normally be prepared to buy such "Sleeve notes" - so long as a "taster" was supplied (as it is for the music) - for something like the cost of a single 'Tune" on iTunes.
These two aspects let Apple iTunes down enormously, in my opinion. I think that by chopping even quite protracted sequences of music up into bits does no one any favours - except perhaps Apple's already quite substantial bank balance. People have to be aware that two and a half, to three and a half minutes is a very short time to develop a piece of worthwhile music, and that there are many, many composers, not all of whom are alive today who have written music that huge masses of mankind value for the enrichment of their lives and the human condition in general.
Please make the viewing of iTunes tracks in their correct order by default possible. By all means have the alphabetical variations available as offering a different approach to the music, but not the sole approach to it - PLEASE.
Frustratedly yours
Alan Whitaker
PS I work at my old 24" iMac Intel Core 2 machine which runs OS "Tiger" - because it is more beautiful to look at, the screen is more pleasant to work on, and because, in some ways it is more capable (it will run FreeHand MX without needing a "patch"), than my more recent 21.5" which runs "Snow Leopard". (I don't find it that much slower, either).

Dear Mike
Thanks for the support. I am utterly amazed that after all the hype about how good iTunes is that it cannot play a downloaded CD in the correct order, and that what that order should be is not available directly from within one's own iTunes installation. (I know that one can go back to the iTunes Store to check what the order should be, but having downloaded the tracks surely iTunes is clever enough to retrieve this important information.
My iTunes to differ from yours in that I have also noticed that it seems unable to download copies of my "talking books" in the correct order either. But in my case it downloads them - from a CD - in order, but with the first track downloaded first - so that it appears at the bottom of the column of tracks so that it would get played last! (At least this is, while being inexplicable, a relatively "logical" bit of blundering and because of this is relatively easy to put right!).
I like many genres of music, some of which are not really programmed except perhaps by the artist performing them. I know that Frank Sinatra was very careful to programme his album songs to obtain a particular effect and in relation to the keys of the music. iTunes presumes to know better.
Film scores may be totally randomly put together, in some cases, but in others the order is vital to one's appreciation of the music as a whole and how it relates to the plot of the film.
In symphonic music most works are divided into sections and are conceived by the composer that way. Some individual sections may gain a life of their own if played separately, but they are never complete in the sense that the composer envisaged them without being placed in their proper context.
Opera and probably most choral music too, is similar except that the words may well become meaningless if the order is changed at the whim of a piece of ill-written computer code, while ballet music has to be heard totally within its sequential context or it becomes meaningless.
Finally, I would venture that iTunes, by jumbling up the order of the tracks as recorded on a CD, does an immense disservice, not only to the music on a particular CD, but to music in general, by expressing everything in terms of "Songs" - which it seems to interpret as stand-alone items of between 2 and 4 minutes whatever the genre. Even the way the iTunes publicity speaks of how many "songs" it can store instead of how many minutes or hours of recorded sound. This has to be another brick in the wall of "dumming-down" of people's expectations, and the shortening of their attention spans.
I don't know about anyone else, but I feel betrayed by Apple over this. Perhaps the look, feel and general presentation of an item are not the most desirable features of a consumer product. Maybe it should be judged more on it fitness for the purpose for which it was sold. There is one other possibility - that Apple are trying to redefine "Music" - and that everything that lasts longer than about 3.5 minutes or is in the form of what could for want of a better term be called symphonic in the broadest sense is something else - not "Music" within Apple's new definition, at all!
Well that's off my chest! now I can get down to creating some sort of order in my iTunes Libraries, knowing that I have to reconsult all the sources in order to confirm the source playing order.
Anyway thanks again. At least I know that it is not just me
alanfromthatcham

Artist info, track number, album title won't show up in iTunes

When I view the songs in explorer, I am able to see the info, but not in iTunes. When I am in iTunes and click on "get info" the ID3 tags are showing as v2.3 and only the track title is showing. When I "add folder to library" and the little progress window appears, it never shows "converting ID3..."
The same files opened in WMP all have complete info including track title, track number, album title.
The same folder is doing this on 2 different computers. We are talking about a huge amount of songs to have to update manually (total of 2.6G from this artist).
How can I get iTunes to show this info?
Troubleshooting info...I deleted a different album from iTunes, then re-added it to my library with no problems, so I am reluctant to blame the program. I'm thinking it is the files/folder. I kind of eliminated that with the attempt on the other computer.
Message was edited by: duckredbeard

Bump.

Itunes insists on reorganising a series of talks by track number into groups so destroying the cd order

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for