My itunes arranges some songs out of order. why?!

I' m having trouble with my Itunes and playlists. Also, some songs get cut off suddenly and stop playing. What can I do?

maybe your songs in the itunes are out of order (ps.2 4 5 1 3)
1>click the serial item of songs
2>the song are in order to 1.2.3.4.5
3>then sync the songs

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HT1386 I synced (updated) my iphone to itunes and some songs were deleted from my iphone playlist on my phone. On the computer, a circle is next to the song and the title faded out. What the heck is that all about and how do I get my songs back onto my

I synced (updated) my iphone to itunes and some songs were deleted from my iphone playlist on my phone. On the computer, a circle is next to the song and the title faded out. What the heck is that all about and how do I get my songs back onto my phone playlist? Never happened before. My software is up to date?

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

My old computer crashed so I got a new computer and installed Itunes but some songs are grayed out.

My old computer crashed so I got a new computer and installed Itunes but some songs are grayed out

What actions, if any, did you take to transfer your iTunes Library from your old computer to your new one? Unless you do so, the only songs that will automatically be available to you are your previous iTunes Store purchases - and even then this is dependent on both where you are (not all regional versions of the Store provide this facility) and whether the songs you've purchased are still available from the Store.
As leofanti points out, iTunes Match is not a backup service for your library.

Iphone songs out of order?

Iphone songs out of order?
Why on my new Iphone4s do my songs appear out of order? It did not do this on my old ipod touch?
The songs are not pirated and are in order in itunes by user ratings.

This may help for a variety of sorting problems.
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:
To Create a "100 Newest" playlist:
1. In iTunes, delete any previous 'X Newest" playlists if they've not been syncing correctly since iOS 5 update, especially if they have referenced other playlists. In my experience if these playlists are not syncing in the correct order, there is nothing you can do to make them sync in the correct order - cut your losses and delete.
2. In iTunes under 'Library' in the sidebar, select 'Music" I think this may be CRITICAL
3. From the 'File' menu select 'New Smart Playlist'
4. In the pop up box that appears, check 'Match the following rule:'
5. In the next line, in the pop-up menus, select the following: 'Media Kind', 'is', 'Music'
6. Check the "Limit to" checkbox and enter the '100' in the box, and then select the follwing option in succeeding popup lists: 'items', selected by 'most recently added'
7.You may check either or both of the options 'Match only checked items' and 'Live updating' - in my experiments these had no effect.
8. Click 'OK' and name your smartlst '100 Newest' or anything you'd like.
Here's something to note:
In your iTunes 'Music Library', the sort order is newest song at the top of your library when the LIBRARY is sorted by 'Date Added' and the small triangle has it's apex pointing down. To me this means the LATEST song is on top.
In your '100 Newest' playlist, to sort so the newest song is at the top of the playlist when the PLAYLIST is sorted by 'Date Added' , you'll note the triangle is oriented with the apex pointing up. To me this signifies the 'YOUNGEST ADDED' song is on the top.
However you view those two items, it's interesting that you'd expect the sort order might be reversed according to the triangle orientations, but it's not. And that's one of the sorting problems I had with syncing my playlists - newest were on the bottom on my iPhone playlist, but on the top in the playlist in my iTunes Library. Certainly not a consistant user interface.
Also note that if you've used a previous hint in referencing a dated order playlist to avoid a previous iTunes playlist syncing bug, those lists now won't sort properly any longer. As I said - cut your losses and start anew.
Hope this helps someone else. It took me a long time to get right.

IPhone 4 playing pieces of songs out of order

My iPhone 4 is doing something that I can't even wrap my head around. When I try to add music from iTunes to my iPhone, everything seems to transfer fine. But when I go to play a song on the phone, the song will play with pieces of the song out of order. So for example, when I start the song, it will start playing the music that is 0:30 into the song, keep playing that segment for a minute or so, then play a chunk from the end of the song, then play a bit from the beginning of the song. I've tried multiple songs from multiple artists and multiple sources (songs downloaded from iTunes, ripped from CDs, etc) and I keep getting the same issue. The songs all play fine when I play from iTunes. It's just that when I play from the phone, they get all crazy.
I've updated iTunes and the iPhone, restarted the phone and my computer, tried all of those basic troubleshooting methods. Assuming you even understand the issue I'm trying to describe, does anyone have any suggestions for getting this fixed? I can't even make a guess as to what is causing this.
Thanks for any help you can give.

The same is happening to me, too. It plays 10+ seconds into the song, then it plays the beginning, then it plays back to where the interruption happened, then it plays a section later in the song, then back to the interruption, then when the song ends, it plays another part of the song that was missed.

Playing songs out of order

Recently and for no apparent reason my NANO began playing songs out of order in my playlists. It happens on all playlists. It doesn't jump from list to list just changes the order within the list itself. It is shuffling the songs because it if you view the playlist that is playing the songs are in the correct order, it just skips around.

Your shuffle setting on the iPod is probably changed from OFF to "Songs" which will cause the iPod to shuffle any playlist you play on the iPod. Go to main menu of the iPod -> Settings and check.
Patrick

HT203167 I bought some albums with musc through Itunes, but some songs wont download, yet, the other songs on the same album downloads, and I still pay full price for the album!! What is going on, does this happen to other people?

Bought music albums from itunes, but some songs wont download, has this happened to someone else??

Morning Dave Steenkamp,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1933
Best of luck,
Mario

Songs out of order on iPod but not in iTunes!

Ever since I’ve upgraded to iTunes version 7 my iPod has had some errors. I have all my songs in order in my iTunes. The track numbers are right, the disc numbers are correct, etc. All the info is the same for all songs. But for some reason some albums have been switched around on the iPod. Not all of the albums, just some. Even albums that I moved onto the iPod before the update have changed their order. Anyone have any idea what is happening or if you're having the same problem? From looking at other posts I think this is a programming problem on Apple's side, and I hope they see this and figure it out. Thanks for any help any of you can offer!

Hello, I'm having the same issue. songs are out of order on the ipod but on itunes it looks fine.
whats going on exactly??

Songs out of order?

I recently imported several CDs to my iTunes library, and for some reason, some of the songs are appearing out of order. I have read the discussions regarding this on the message board (probably not all, but four or so?), and it doesn't seem to be the same reason everyone else is encountering. A few notes detail the problem:
- There's one album where the track list is: 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 9, 11, 12 (in order except Track 10), and a few others with the same issue (albiet different track number out of order)
- The album in question is only by one artist. I have group-changed the artist, album and album artist fields to the same value for all tracks. So it's not a guest-artist issue.
- I have marked the album as a compilation, to no effect. This worked great on many multi-artist albums, but didn't help here.
- All tracks of the CD are marked as being within one CD (there isn't the horizontal line that desigates different albums).
- The tracks appear in order when I sort by Artist; however, this breaks up the compilations elsewhere in the library, so I really want to use Album by Artist.
- Changing the view format to adjust options did not help either, and this seems strange enough that I'm surprised it helped for someone else in the past.
- Closing and reloading iTunes also had no effect.
Any thoughts on how to make them appear in order in the Album by Artist view?

maybe i missed something here. But heres my $0.02
you cannot change the order in the library it is true, except by sort.
you can change the order in playlists by simple drag 'n' drop.
So if this makes sense to you then you can ignore the order in the library (no more reimporting). You can then just set up a playlist and order them by column sort OR just drag and drop them into the order you want.
hope that helps

Songs out of order on iPod

For some reason the order of some of my songs is different then how they show up on the album and on iTunes. When I click the "Album" in iTunes they are in the correct order when it shows "album by artist" and "album my year" but not when it says just "album. However, when I try an put this on my iPod they copy in the wrong order. This never was a problem until I downloaded the newer version of iTunes.
Any suggestions of why this is happening and how to fix it??
Thanks,
James

OMG I Found Out How To Fix It. Go to the album in iTunes and right click on the whole album and hit get info. then go to sorting and fill in the first the sections with the info of the album and then sync your ipod and that should fix the problem!!! if it works your welcome in advance

Just got iphone 5-only syncs a few songs from itunes library. some songs on ipad. would like them all on new iphone

Please help! I have a new iPhone. Have some songs from iTunes library on iPad and only a few transferred to new phone when synced. Tried deleting songs from iPad and they went to iCloud. So now I have songs in iCloud on iPad and some songs on iPhone. Help! I want ALL iTunes library on new phone.

I hope I'm not too confusing--to clarify: I have iTunes library on the computer. When I got the iPad, most of them transferred to that. I read somewhere on here how to delete those songs and they are now 500+ songs in iCloud...I think. Tried putting the iTunes library onto new iPhone 5s a few days ago and only 149 out of 1100 songs transferred. HOw can I get my whole library from the computer to my new phone? I don't need them on my iPad.

No arkwork and songs out of order

ok i think im not the only but i want this say to me in lameman terms lol, ok so i have everything checked with the artwork on my ipod and it wont let me load any artwork on my ipod, it shows up in my librey and my music part of itunes but when i disconnect my ipod and play it no artwork shows up.
now sense i updated everything on my ipod alot of my songs are out of order, there fine on itunes and in the librey but not on my ipod can someone help me out?
or are we going to have to wait till itunes 8?

There is a quicker way to restore your mixed up
artwork....
Connect ipod to computer,when ipod screen displays
click on
music tab (top center),untick 'Display album artwork
on your ipod' at the bottem of the list and press
'Apply' let it complete,then disconnect ipod.
Now repeat the above,only this time tick the box that
says
'Display album artwork on your ipod' and 'Apply'.This
works for my 30gig 5G with itunes 7 every time.
That only works if all your Ipod music is still in your Itunes library. When you deselect to view your album artwork on your Ipod and click APPLY, then all your album art gets deleted from your Ipod. When you re-apply to allow album art to be displayed on your Ipod it will only grab what is currently in your Itunes library.
Assuming you don't get that Error 50 message.
I had to reimport all the music and videos from my Ipod into Itunes then sync my Ipod to my Itunes library. Now I have all the album artwork without issue. But I have a 60GB hard drive and a 60GB Ipod. So doing that in the future won't work unless I buy an extra hard drive.

Songs out of order on purchased album?

This is a recent problem for me, but it's happening all the time lately. Here's the issue: the songs in my purchased folder are sorted by date downloaded, but in the past, when I've purchased an entire album from iTunes, the songs appear grouped in album order.
Lately, though, they come into my purchased folder completely out of order. It's annoying on a couple of levels. One, I like to play recently played albums in their entirety straight from my purchased playlist; two, it makes it impossible to "make playlist from selection" and have the songs in the proper album order.
Don't know how this problem started, but I'd really like to fix it.

When you import or download albums they don't necessarily get added in track order, or reverse track order. I've a script for Windows which can remove and reimport tracks to sort them correctly but that's not going to help on your Mac. You may need to remove all the tracks and then reimport them one at a time first to last or last to first depending on whether you want you most recent albums at the end or the beginning of the list.
For general sorting tips see http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
tt2

Burned playlist to data DVD; song out of order

Why would "Burn Playlist to Disk' change the order of the songs in a playlist? Mine came our sorted by album name...not in the order I created in the playlist.
Have I got some setting wrong?

by album. I've tried all the variations of "album" too, by clicking on it a few times.
But I just discovered that if I don't have the track number listed in the Info section, that it gets out of order. I've manually changed a few and it has worked. Just wish I got it before it went into the system.

ITunes TV Shows are out of order in iPhone tab.

I've been importing a TV Show Season from DVD into iTunes so I can watch the TV show on my iPhone at the gym. Everything works well, the TV shows are imported, I enter the meta-data for each show, title, episode #, etc.... When I look at my TV shows in the TV Shows tab in the side bar, they are all listed in order by episode number. Yet when I go to the iPhone tab in the sidebar, and the select the TV Shows tab to try and sync, all of the episodes are random and in no particular order at all. Maybe I'm just being OCD about it, but I want to watch the seasons in order and now I have no way to do this? Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks

Just discovered your post, I made a similar post with the same problem, only concerning Podcasts and not TV Shows. I don't think you're being OCD about it at all. It's only logical to expect that if you can put the songs of a music album in a certain order and listen to them that way, that you should be able to do the same with a TV show or Podcast series.
Check to make sure all of the following are set:
Info tab: Track number
Video tab: Show, Season Number, Episode ID, Episode Number
The TV shows on my iPod are in the correct order, but the Podcasts are not. Unexpectedly, I think it may be the Track number from the info tab that keeps them in order. I just removed the track number from an episode and it went out of order.
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