Organizing Music and videos

Hello,
I have a few questions I hope that can be answered. Can I change the order a song appears in my libary? I would like some to stay in the order of the cd. Next, I've been organizing my videos. I like to have the right one appear when I click a type in the menu bar. A example, a music video appears when I click movies, and disappears when I click Music video. I've notice in the options tab of get info. A pull down that say, video kind. But, it is not available to push. Any other options? And, finally I have an audio book the does the same thing.
Thanks for any help.
Marcus

The Library can be sorted by any of the headings at the top of the list (artist, title, etc.). To sort in CD order, click on the Album heading. By the way, in case you haven't used this yet, the Browse mode (Edit->Show browser) allows you to quickly navigate between artists and albums (same rule for sorting).
If clicking the album heading does not give you the CD order, then it's a problem with the track numbers in teh ID3 tags. Open the get info window and amke sure the track numbers are set to the order on the CD.
I haven't used videos yet in iTunes, but there's been a lot people here complaning that they can't "organize" their videos into Apple's categories. Apparently the info that iTunes uses is not user-editable so basically iTunes can only organize videos bought from the iTMS (where they are properly "categorized"). Videos you bring in yourself into iTunes can't be classified. Look up video and you'll see a bunch of threads on this topic. I haven't read them lately, maybe someone has come up with an answer.

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