Loading CD's - ITUNES moves songs all over the place - nothing in any order

Well I am trying to put trance cds onto my ipod but when i bring the songs into itunes it moves them alllllll around - now i understand making them into playlists and all but that takes bloody for ever - there MUST be an easyer way - i cant see these developers being THAT dumb!

Yes, there are settings to fix this. This should help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468
They need to change that article - in itunes 8, look on the Options tab for the compilation checkbox.

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