Play albums in order within itunes

Overnight our itunes has decided to play one track from an album and then move to an artist beginning with the next letter in the alphabet instead of playing the next song on the album selected. We have not selected party shuffle or anything. Please can anyone advise as its driving us mad! Many thanks.

1. Choices... Restore the iPod back to factory settings. If you've opted for manual syncing, just select everything on the iPod & delete. If you're auto-syncing (which I'd recommend), make any changes you want to in iTunes, then sync. All the changes will be updated to the iPod. If you make use of the functions to *Sync selected playlists* and *Sync checked tracks only* you can achieve fine control over what goes onto the iPod while ensuring that it's always updated with any tweaks you make to tag info.
2. Yes... assuming you're not using shuffle.
3. It should do... Very occasionaly I've had to uncheck, apply & recheck this option to fix gaps in gapless albums.
4. It might just time out before the wireless connection responds. Try connecting to your web browser before inserting your CD.
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I've been playing with this and discovered it has to do with your personal ratings (ie stars) for albums and songs - seems iTunes now selects the highest rated album to use for the Artist icon. If you have no ratings it seems (but not always) to select the most recent album/song to use fo rthe display.
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I had downloaded album tracks off the net into album folders in My Music. The tracks were numbered. After importing the albums (folders) into my iTunes library, & updating my iPod with those, I see that in both the iPod & iTunes the tracks are in the wrong order. They are however, in correct order in their folders (in MY Music).
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Try this, I found that it works for me. Right click at the top of any column in your iTunes library and choose **Track Number** from the list. Click at the top of this new column to sort it and after that click on the Album column. If you like you can then click on Artist which is how I prefer mine ordered, it will continue to hold the track order as well. Afterwards anything you import should follow this arrangement Artist>Album>Track Number within Album (you can hide the track number column when you've done if you don't want it cluttering up the view)

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WIth the newer Versions of iTunes, albums are sorted in alphabetical order ignoring the word "The". (i.e. On iTunes the following albums would be in this order: Sub Songs, The Super Songs, Suzy Music where on my iPod, the following albums would be placed in this order: Sub Songs, Suzy Music, The Super Songs lumping all "The" titles amongst the Ts.) Does anyone know why this sort feature is not the same on iPod AND iTunes? Please advise.
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Sorting has become a complete mess. Though, it's quite logical from Apple to sort albums by ignoring the because it makes searching for albums a lot easier since there are numerous albums (and artists) beginning with that word.
But I guess that an answer to your question can only be given by an Apple engineer who makes iPod software.
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Album list order in iTunes

Awhile ago (circa 2007) there was an upgrade to iTunes that reordered the "Album" list from numeric/alpha listing to a alpha/numeric list. For examples, albums used to be listed starting with those titles with numbers - "1", "5150", "90125", etc. - and now those albums appear at the end of the list. What is the reason why Apple changed this file order in the listing?

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Using iPod Classic I'm able to make an album play in track order if I select it from the album list but it seems album tracks always display and play in alphabetical order if selected via a search.
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iTunes plays things in the order in which they are displayed on the playlist which you are playing. If you're playing a playlist in which you are viewing items in order added and that doesn't happen to be the track order then by order added is what you'll get. If you start the list in track order and then change the display to order added then it will switch to that order. One way is to have two sets of playlists and view one in order added while playing the second in album mode. Of course the highlight won't be on the currently playing track, but at least you can continue to view your music in whatever order you wish while the other list continues to play the tracks in order. Alternatively, just make sure your tracks are added to your list by play order, then at least it will play in the correct order within an album.
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[http://www.apple.com/feedback> - Apple products feedback links

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Playing albums in track order-please

Why and how can it be so freaking hard to play an album on itunes starting with the first track and then go on from there in order!??
The only way is to go to the search area and look up the album, and then hit the track # tab. Or to always organize your music by artist. This is ridiculous. I personally like to view my music in the 'date added' order and I can find no way to fix this problem.
Artist and recording engineers and producers spend many hours sequencing a full collection of songs, choosing the track order, deciding how many seconds should go in between pieces, so some of us really want to respect this and listen to whole albums the way that they were intended to be played!
Please add an option that helps solve this!!!
B.

iTunes plays things in the order in which they are displayed on the playlist which you are playing. If you're playing a playlist in which you are viewing items in order added and that doesn't happen to be the track order then by order added is what you'll get. If you start the list in track order and then change the display to order added then it will switch to that order. One way is to have two sets of playlists and view one in order added while playing the second in album mode. Of course the highlight won't be on the currently playing track, but at least you can continue to view your music in whatever order you wish while the other list continues to play the tracks in order. Alternatively, just make sure your tracks are added to your list by play order, then at least it will play in the correct order within an album.
Apple doesn't use the AD forums for providing product feedback or suggestions since this intended to be an end-user to end-user (i.e., users like you helping other users) technical issue support feature. You should send feedback via:
[http://www.apple.com/feedback> - Apple products feedback links

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How can I play songs from an album in order on my iphone 4? The shyuffle is turned off both on the phone and on the device when I sync the phone with my iMac but it continues to shuffle. All the songs in the album have been checked in iTunes.

Bill, you ignorant moron. Turn off the ultra secret hidden shuffle diabolically placed behind the album cover. Just tap the album cover to expose the sinister little shuffle icon on the right. Is it blue? Well, tap it until it is no longer blue! Also, make sure you are in your playlist and not the genius playlist.
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I prefer my albums to be displayed in itunes with the latest albums first. So I use grid view albums and set 'sort by' to 'descending'.
When i select an album to play it will play the first track but the track numbers are ALSO in descending order and when clicking next it doesn't play the next track. If I go into the album and click next, the album ends because it thinks the first track of the album is the last.
This is because the track numberings are also in descending order.
Why would itunes do this? Why are not these functions mutually exclusive?
This is a major ridiculous flaw in itunes that doens't allow you to play your latest albums in order.
You are forced to have your 1967 classical album at the top of your itunes if you want to play your albums with the track numbers in order and all your latest albums down the bottom.
I'm sure this has been posted before, but any comments, suggestions, feedback from apple themselves, about this problem appreciated.

seems this is a problem people have complained about for years without any resolve to it. Unbelievable. 2012 and you can't play your latest albums in itunes, hah, what a joke
https://discussions.apple.com/message/8704619#8704619
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16011116#16011116
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16377367#16377367

SICK of iTunes messing up my albums' track order!

SCENARIO: I rip a CD, get track name/number and ID3 info from online database, convert to MP3, import into iTunes, sort by Album by Artist (with tracks displaying in correct order), and my iPod STILL chooses to play it in whatever order it darn well pleases.
What's up with that?! Come on, Apple!
Oh yeah, my question:
As you can probably tell, I don't use my iPod/iTunes as a 'jukebox', I simply store my record collection on it. Concordantly, I want to listen to only my albums, and only in the track order the artist intended. How can I tell iTunes/my iPod once and for all that I don't want it to play albums in any order other than track order? If this isn't possible, my question becomes, which form of suicide could anyone recommend? I hear the Empire State Building is pretty high...

Your iPod will order the tracks by their "Track number" tag that appears when you ⌘-i a track and go to the "info" tab. Your iPod needs to know what the track number is in order to play the tracks in that order.
When this value is not present, I'm guessing it will order them in alphabetical order, or the order in which they were imported or some-such.

Play albums in order within itunes

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