ITunes screws up sort order and randomly screws up volume level

I'm really starting to regret replacing my 5g video with the classic. The video out issue is one problem, but my biggest issue is my Media Monkey isn't compatible and I had to go back to iTunes. First off I hate using iTunes to manage content. The format *****. But a bigger issue is why does having info in the id3 tag that has nothing to do with the track order of an album screw up the order? I shouldn't have to delete fields like "Album Artist" to get things to sort correctly. Track number should be the ONLY criteria for sorting tracks in an album. The second issue is, I've had problems witrh not being able to hear tracks, no volume. When I check in iTunes it has somehow adjusted the volume to zero for those tracks! I'll be happy when MM updates their software to work with the classic.

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ITunes screws up track order and randomly screws up volume level

I'm really starting to regret replacing my 5g video with the classic. The video out issue is one problem, but my biggest issue is my Media Monkey isn't compatible and I had to go back to iTunes. First off I hate using iTunes to manage content. The format ***. But a bigger issue is why does having info in the id3 tag that has nothing to do with the track order of an album screw up the order? I shouldn't have to delete fields like "Album Artist" to get things to sort correctly. Track number should be the ONLY criteria for sorting tracks in an album. The second issue is, I've had problems witrh not being able to hear tracks, no volume. When I check in iTunes it has somehow adjusted the volume to zero for those tracks! I'll be happy when MM updates their software to work with the classic.

yosarian wrote:
I don't know what column I am sorting on when I drag the mp3s over to iTunes. It's whatever the default order is when you create a new play list.
I believe the default is to sort the songs in the order they were added to the playlist. If you want to keep them in track order, you can click on the "Track #" or "Album" column headers.
As for the built in browser duplicating the individual play lists, how does my ipod know which songs belong together? The artist to album menu? I have never used the browser feature, so will have to play with it when I get home.
When determining whether songs are part of the same album, I believe iTunes and iPods look at the Album, Album Artist (or Artist if there is none), and Disc # fields, and whether or not the album is marked as a compilation. If all those fields are filled out, there shouldn't be any trouble with the Browser recognizing albums.

Group by sort order and display accordingly

I have two groups - primary sort order and a secondary sort order in my report, formula for both follows:
If {?Sort Order}='1' then {PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.CUSTOMER_NAME}
else if {?Sort Order}='2' then {PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.PRODUCT_ID}
else if {?Sort Order}='3' then {PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.CUST_REVISION_LEVEL}
else if {?Sort Order}='4' then {PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.CMS_UD36}
else if {?Sort Order}='5' then {PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.CMS_UD38}
else if {?Sort Order}='6' then totext(year({PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.PURCHASE_DATE}),0,"")"/"
right("0" + totext(month({PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.PURCHASE_DATE}),0,""),2)"/"
right("0" + totext(day({PRODUCT_CUSTOMER_MNT_V.PURCHASE_DATE}),0,""),2)
Groups are suppressed and fields are placed in the detail the line. I have a request to group by Customer name with selected product ID's listed or vice versa. My quandry is how do I accomodate the descriptive fields in the page header since the user can select any number of combinations using the sort order parameter. Sure, right now they are only looking at customer and product ID but let's face it, that requirement could change in the future. Seems simple enough but it's been awhile since I've touched reports and my brain is fuzzy. Is what I'm trying to do possible? Crystal XI (11.0.0.1282)

I was overthinking the problem. The report was already sorting on customer or product based on user selection. I placed the customer ID/Name field and the Product ID field into group one and checked the underlay following section box in section expert. This is will work fine for our purposes.

Bug: iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 podcast smart playlist sort order and how to fix.

There seems to be a bug in iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 involving the sort order of a smart playlist of podcasts. I created such a playlist and sorted by release date on iTunes but I noticed it had a different sort order on the iPod Touch.
After playing around with it a bit I found that the only way to preserve the sort order that I have in iTunes on the iPod Touch is to uncheck "Live Updating" in the smart playlist.

Confirming this incredibly annoying bug. Basic list sorting not working... real bottom shelf work apple.
workaround update: limit to must be turned on, set it to an absurdly high number if you don't want to actually limit the playlist, then one of the sortby options in that submenu will work. The live update checkbox is irrelevant from experimentation.
This workaround does NOT fix the fundamental problem: sort order from itunes in smart playlists is not being synced and preserved in ios5 devices.
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IOS7 music App sort order of titels screwed

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If you find this as annoying as I think most people do, let apple know at:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Artist sort order and TSOP tags

Can someone please help me understand how tagging and sort orders behave on an iPhone in advance of my buying one.
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- Julian

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Mail Sort Order and Logitech Control Center 3.1

LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader.osax is a Scripting Addition in /library/scriptingadditions that reproducibly causes the sort order in Mail to revert to Date Received/Newest on Top. With LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader.osax in the Scripting Additions folder, you can change the sort order for a folder, but when you click on another folder and return to the original, the sort order reverts to Date Received/Newest on Top.
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I upgraded to Snow Leopard (10.6.2) from 10.5 yesterday and noticed this Mail sort problem straight away. Concurrently I upgraded to Default Folder 4.3.3 and LCC 3.1. Following the advice of you guys, I've excluded Mail.app in System Prefs/Default Folder/Settings/Advanced and lo and behold date sort is working normally again.
I mean, I've spent 15 years having most recent at the bottom and it's very wrong to have it at the top!

ITunes disables my Windows sounds and takes away the volume control

I have searched and found no answer to this- others have posted this same question.
I installed itunes and it removed my volume control from the task bar. It disabled my Windows sounds and took away the volume control from the System Tray next to clock. My media buttons no longer affect the volume either. I have to go into control panel to change my system volume.
At first- it only happened when my daughter would plug in her iPod and use iTunes, and then after we'd reboot the computer, the volume control would come back and no longer be disabled. Each time she used iTunes, it would happen again. Then a computer restart would bring it back. Now all of a sudden, nothing brings it back. I have to go about 4-5 screens deep into Control Panel to adjust the volume there. This is ridiculous and an absolutely unacceptable side effect of iTunes.
Does someone have an answer or do we need to delete iTunes and never again buy a crappy apple product?
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Figured it out!
Go to Control Panel -> Sound
In the “Playback” tab, click on your Speakers to highlight it, then click Properties. In the “Advanced” tab, under “Exclusive Mode”, uncheck the box that says “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device”. I restarted my computer after that, but I am not sure if you need to.
Then you can go to your taskbar and right-click and choose “Properties”. In the “Notification Area” tab, under System icons, “Volume” is no longer grayed out and you can now check the box to make it show up down near your clock again.

We are currently having troubles with our iTunes. Playing different songs and randomly it changes the name of the song to pink time after time. We could go through 5 songs before it will change the next one to song title time after time and artist pink

Hi I am having trouble with iTunes! Randomly when I click on a song in iTunes it changes the song title to time after time and the artist is pink.
I could click on 4 songs and they will be normal but then the 5th one will change the info to time after time.
I haven't done anything different or new, it started doing it all of a sudden, well that I have noticed anyway. Please help.

Hello Schimi. The Time Capsule is a kind of product that offer you two possibility:
- To use the TC as a router or as an external HD.
The difference between WPA and WPA 2 are:
- They are two kinds of internet connection.
WPA uses dynamic key encryption , which means that the key is constantly changing and makes the invasion of a wireless network more difficult than WEP . WPA is considered one of the highest levels of wireless security for your network and is recommended if your devices support this kind of encryption . Newer routers offer WPA2 security . WPA2 is compatible with WPA , but offers higher security level . In fact, it meets the high standards of many government agencies . If the router and computer support WPA2 , this should be your choice.
If you need any help or if you find some difficult setting up it you can contact Apple Support.
I am sure that they can help you with that.
I am sory for the delay. I holpe that you solve your issue.

Sort order and hierarchical columns

I have a report with a hierarchical column (say total, country, city), another dimension (say outdated, actual, undecided) and a measure. In the report should show the results grouped, sorted by the hierarchical column. So i configured the report to be sorted by column one.
But if i click on the + in front of total, i get
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...... undecided 700
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+france         outdated     300
+germany      outdated     100
+france         undecided    300
+germany      undecided    400
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...... undecided 700
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Martin

Ok, this one is on me. The reason for this behaviour is:
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E71 and Parrot CK3000 Evolution volume levels

I can connect my E71 to my Parrot Car Kit but every time I do so it sets the volume to the minimum. Is this a common problem? Are Nokia/Parrot working on a solution for this problem? Has anybody else encountered this problem? And if so, is there a solution that doesn't involve me having to reset the volume to an acceptable level every time I connect my phone to the car kit?

Pick an unused profile and turn everything off in that profile except for what you do want.
This includes keypad tones etc.
I have everything off except for call and message. Calls are set at 2 beeps and messages at 1 beep.
Vibrator, breathing light, keypad tones, video calls, warning tones, etc are all set to off.
I renamed this profile (I used the "pager" profile) to "Car"
Under Menu > Tools > Settings > General > Enhancement set the "Headset" to use the profile you just configured for this purpose.
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Aperture, the iPad, and sort order

Basically, Aperture and iPad really don't seem to be happy bed buddies. Seems to me the bottom line is if you want to use your iPad to browse and view pictures, don't "upgrade" to Aperture.
My basic problem is sort order, and twofold:
1. The order of Albums and Events (ie. Projects) are completely out of whack.
2. The order of actual photos in albums and events are completely out of whack too.
Now I've seen complaints about 2. in the discussions but they seem to be pretty old threads and everyone's seemed to just have lived with it. I also see this support article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3381. Seriously? Apple calls that a "Resolution"? Manually dragging a photo in each and every album / project so that it uses the custom sort? Then of course on top of all that monkey work, the sort will be screwed for any future photos added to the album / project. ***? You can't even call that a workaround, let alone a resolution. Seriously Apple. Has anyone had any better luck with it?
This has been a pain in the *** with A2 and the iPhone but I didn't really use that too much to display my photos. But now with A3 and iPad, it's still exactly the same deal? This is just plain stupid.
As to 1. I can't for the life of me figure out what this order is (it's not by date or by name / path or anything I can tell), or if there's any way to change it. Nor could I find any threads about this issue so any info or tips would be very useful.
I really hate that all this iDevice syncing has solely been designed for use with iPhoto/iLife and the pro applications were just tacked on as a badly implemented afterthought. Is the pro market (specifically the intersection of Pro software and iDevice users) really this small that it means nothing to Apple, a company which normally prides itself in its attention to detail and user experience?

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ITunes Re-Installing All Apps at Random?

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It just happened again and its beginning to make me angry at this point. I have around 200 applications, and around 75 of those are on my iPad. Every once in a while iTunes seems to forget this and randomly scrambles up all my apps and re-installs them all.
I end up having to painstakingly re-remove the 100+ apps I DON'T want on my iPad then painstakingly attempt to re-order the 75 apps I do want back into the order I had them previously...

Well, interestingly enough now my iPad is behaving as my iPhone has for some time now...
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I'm guessing at this point my only option is to erase all data in my iPad... Being I can't restore the data for the various apps I'll loose hours and hours worth of work...
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Any way to Restore Last Manual Sort Order or Prevent from being Overwritten accidentally?

     Help!
     I'm constantly accidentally overwriting painstakingly created manual sort ordering (sometimes hours but more often months of accumulated work) in folders with files numbering up to 1,000, when i, however breifly, switch to another sort ordering (size, date modified etc) to check something, immediately forget that i'm in another sort order, and, unthinkingly (actually i guess i'm thinking of a lot of other things) drag a file to another position, this immediately destroys any past manual sorting i've established, overwriting it with this new inadvertent manual ordering.
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Is there any way or any script someone has written to formally save a manual sort order? Is there anything i've missed to attempt restoring it? Has anyone, repeatedly foiled by this, written something that would give a warning and require confirmation say for instance, if i tried to drag or move a file while in another sort ordering (this seems like something that should have existed the minute the opportunity was given to create manual organization). Would anyone be willing to?
     Seriously, me forgetting almost every time isn't going to change and, more vexingly, it's even happened when i didn't mean to move anything but fumbled momentarily while in another sort order. I think most people might forget because (in the context of computing) we are conditioned to expect a warning if something we have just created is about to be written over or discarded, and since there is no option to formally save a manual ordering we have just created.
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     Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer, and as this is my first attempt to use the forums as i live on a boat with no regular net access, would appreciate any forum etiquette corrections, and advance apologies for any misspellings, dyslexic and spellcheck does not seem to work in this interface. next time will edit in external wordprocessing program beforehand,
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That is a good question, to do this requires two functions and a restart of Bridge all done automagically
Copy and paste the script into ExtendScript Toolkit
This gets installed with Photoshop and can be found:-
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Utilities
MAC: <hard drive>/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities
Start Bridge
PC: Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts
Mac: Adobe Bridge menu - Preferences - Startup Scripts
At the bottom click the "Reveal Button" this will open the folder where the script should be saved.
Close and restart Bridge.
Accept the new script.
To use:
Tools - Backup Manual Sort
This will backup the hidden manual sort file .BridgeSort to .BridgeSortSave
Tools - Restore Manual Sort
This will copy the .BridgeSortSave back to .BridgeSort and will close and restart Bridge so that the manual sort is restored.
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
var backUpManSort = new MenuElement( "command","Backup Manual Sort", "at the end of Tools" , "backupms" );
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var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
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var fileSort = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
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alert("No backup file exists");
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if(fileSort.exists) fileSort.remove();
fileSave.copy(fileSort);
fileSort.hidden=true;
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Hope this works for you.

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I work mostly in English, but my macbookpro keyboard is German, so I assume the problem is with the language settings. I've tried changing the system preferences for language and sort order, and that changes the sort order, but it doesn't get it right.
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when I find a set of events in iCal, the list appears in the window at the bottom of the page in the correct sort order when sorted by date, title or type. When I then copy that list to the clipboard and paste it into another program (Pages, MacJournal, TextEdit) the sort order changes.
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